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.
Top comments
Totally 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.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 555
- Total comments
- 189
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |