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 orderMB has done an amazing job at creating an identity. It seems that some content of his stirs up small controversy on this forum, and while I can't pick apart the minutiae, it's clear on a high level that he has really made a place for himself as a person in the digital world. His work is interesting and beautiful, and is all related in a way that make it clear that he has a theme or drive which he…
Pollen is great. I wish it was more widely used. One of the only reasons I don't use it for most things is that adding the whole of Racket as a dependency comes across as a little much. One of my "one day..." projects is to try and reimplement a subset of Pollen using https://github.com/racket/zuo which I think would make it much easier to integrate as a much smaller dependency. But maybe the whole "ease of use" budget is blown…
If someone could convince researchers to publish this way we could really reduce the work involved publishing science.
The "Ruby for eBook Publishing" link [1] on front page reminded me of this amazing project. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28594863 Previously discussed in 2019 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027116
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
- 463
- Total comments
- 79
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-28 | Pollen: the book is a programFirst breakout · Best thread | giornogiovanna | 254 | 56 |
| 2021-09-17 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | dragonsh | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-09-20 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | aeontech | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-06-01 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | sargstuff | 5 | 0 |
| 2022-11-07 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | maxique | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-08-29 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | citruscomputing | 7 | 1 |
| 2024-09-22 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | Brajeshwar | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-10-27 | Pollen: A publishing system written in RacketLatest 20+ point return | nesarkvechnep | 179 | 21 |
| 2026-03-24 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | notagoodidea | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-05-31 | Pollen: The Book Is a Program | tosh | 5 | 0 |