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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.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198572 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567186
I don't always have pv installed, especially on smaller systems. More recent "dd"s have an argument "status=progress" which is pretty good, especially if "dd" is the source or sink of the data in question (which for me it usually is, otherwise I'd use "rsync --progress"). pv is great, just thought I'd point out some other options.
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.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 365
- Total comments
- 76
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-03-07 | Pipe Viewer: Watch data in unix pipelines, give progress bars to program | iamelgringo | 3 | 0 |
| 2011-11-05 | Pv - Pipe Viewer - monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline | nonototo | 4 | 0 |
| 2012-05-24 | Pipe ViewerFirst breakout | bsg75 | 162 | 26 |
| 2016-01-30 | PV (Pipe Viewer) – add a progress bar to most command-line programs | d33 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-02-28 | Unix Pipe Viewer | dedalus | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-07-13 | PV (Pipe Viewer) – add a progress bar to most command-line programs | d33 | 3 | 2 |
| 2021-05-25 | Pipe Viewer: View shell command pipe progress | gurjeet | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-10-18 | Pipe ViewerBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | 0x45696e6172 | 183 | 48 |
| 2025-04-06 | Pv: Pipe Viewer Progress Bar | fanf2 | 3 | 0 |