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 order(Hi, Retool employee here who worked on this piece.) This is the second installment[1] in what we hope will be a regular series telling the stories of novel programming environments that had a lot of influence on developers. Creating these is a labor of love—we get to talk to the original teams who built products that were formational for us. We have an incredible in-house creative team that finds a way to sneak these fun mini-sites in amongst their other…
Pipes was ahead of its time. Built a scraper and aggregator back in 2008-2010, fetching content from over 2000 sources, pumping all of it into a Drupal website. The amount of regex transformations and other things I had in that pipeline - is in hindsight - more complex, larger scale, and more convoluted that any other nifi or airflow pipelines I built later in my career. And all of it was free. What was possible was limited only by one's…
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
- 545
- Total comments
- 158
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-14 | Pipe Dreams: The Life and Times of Yahoo Pipes | kentbrew | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-15 | Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo PipesFirst breakout · Best thread | type0 | 398 | 128 |
| 2026-01-05 | Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)Latest 20+ point return | twalichiewicz | 144 | 30 |