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 love Battleship hacks. The game begs to be implemented everywhere for its simplicity. Before I learned to program I implemented it in MS Excel circa 2002. It was played over a local network as a shared file, and it relied on manual polling (file reload) and honor (don't peek at your opponent's worksheet). I played it with a coworker during breaks in an environment that IT had locked down, but they didn't block Excel.
> For a protocol that was produced on two napkins in 1989 [...] I'm not sure I'd want to deal with a protocol that can't be explained on a napkin or two. UTF-8 was design on a diner placemat: * https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
Reminds me of the BGP nyancat[1]. Does anyone have another creative (ab)use of a network protocol? https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history?pk_vid=09869001...
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
- 562
- Total comments
- 63
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-21 | Playing battleships over BGPFirst breakout · Best thread | benjojo12 | 352 | 37 |
| 2019-11-03 | Playing battleships over BGP (2018) | adulau | 87 | 3 |
| 2021-10-05 | Playing Battleships over BGP (2018)Latest 20+ point return | tcard | 123 | 23 |