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 orderThere are memory regions that are mapped to the same physical memory - https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/memorymap/ I worked on the Metal Gear Solid port from PSX to PC, and Konami programmers chose a wild trick to store how the "C4" bomb was planted - either on the wall, or on the ground. Essentially the pointer pointed to the same physical memory address, but if it was planted on the wall (or on the ground, I forgot) - then it was OR-ing it…
This is a great overview. I don't remember having to put in padding instructions to prevent the pipeline issues mentioned here; maybe we just never ran into that. (I wrote pretty much all the R3000 code for Crash 1 and just do not recall problems like that coming up.) To us the elephant in the room limitation of PS1 is not mentioned here as far as I could tell from a quick read-through: it had no Z-buffer. This meant that…
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
- 637
- Total comments
- 181
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-17 | Playstation Architecture – A Practical Analysis | manauro | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-06-21 | Architecture of the PlaystationFirst breakout | biwasa | 280 | 112 |
| 2026-04-14 | PlayStation Architecture | andre9317 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-06-03 | PlayStation ArchitectureBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | gregsadetsky | 354 | 69 |