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 orderI learned Turbo Pascal in an MS-DOS emulator running on old green-screen Burroughs smart terminals, circa 1987. I knew the terminals had some sort of graphics capacity because their font changed when they left VMS mode and started emulating MS-DOS, so I wrote a program to rummage around in memory until I found where the font designs were stored. Then I wrote a font editor that changed the standard font whenever I logged in, to a design based on my…
Did anyone even stop to appreciate the irony of using a thing created for blind people to make something that will only ever be useful to people with sight, if at all?
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
- 396
- Total comments
- 105
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-22 | Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters | asciimoo | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-05-21 | Pixel graphics in terminalFirst breakout · Best thread | potatoPhD | 231 | 68 |
| 2014-05-27 | Drawille – Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters | ca98am79 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-02-17 | Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with unicode braille characters | setra | 13 | 0 |
| 2017-11-01 | Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille charactersLatest 20+ point return | Ivoah | 150 | 37 |