Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderStraight, simple and to the point. Nice. Missing test and QA tools though. Probably an oversight, since the author does suggest following Derick Rethans and Sebastian Bergmann. And another one: read up on the SPL library before you start re-inventing that wheel.
PHP is a language with various features that might make it attractive to certain people: • CGI-like execution model when used for the web, making resource leaks very difficult and encouraging scalable design • not only integers and floats, but also strings, lists and dictionaries as mutable value types (copy-on-write) — this is a big difference from JavaScript and Python • unusually for a dynamic “scripting” language: true classes and interfaces, and optional type declarations enforced by the runtime •…
A bunch of previous discussion in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219984
The only winning move is not to play.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 719
- Total comments
- 557
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-07-07 | PHP: The Right WayFirst breakout · Best thread | bencevans | 393 | 219 |
| 2013-09-06 | PHP: The Right Way | tambourine_man | 4 | 1 |
| 2016-08-17 | PHP: The Right Way | mooreds | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-12-29 | PHP: The Right Way | handpickednames | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-11-26 | PHP: The Right Way | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-02-05 | PHP – The Right WayHall induction | acqbu | 287 | 332 |
| 2023-06-08 | PHP – The Right Way | Tomte | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-04-03 | PHP: The Right WayLatest 20+ point return | rob | 24 | 5 |