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 orderTotally anecdotal, but there are people who literally get paid to watch games and record what happens at every step. I used to have that job. This is how MLB, ESPN etc. have live updates which powers stuff like this.
I was really hoping this would render a small video in terminal colors. Regardless, love it and love that you're bringing baseball to it's biggest new market, unix sysadmins.
With all the stats available I wonder if it would be possible to show which zone the ball went into. I did a little bit of work on pitch prediction and we were able to get a pretty good result predicting which zone the ball would go into. I think we were around 36% accurate with a specific pitcher. I built a realtime predictor on live games which was pretty fun. Wish I had know about this.
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
- 555
- Total comments
- 189
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-28 | Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminalFirst breakout | computerlab | 196 | 42 |
| 2023-09-20 | Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal | sotix | 6 | 1 |
| 2025-10-02 | Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminalBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | ohjeez | 353 | 146 |