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 orderIt is probably/definitely me but I watched the long video and did not learn anything and then read the GitHub example for a few minutes and got it. I have a hard time understanding why ‘young people’ (or maybe all people outside myself as it sometimes feels) enjoy videos; text is so much faster for everything but learning how to render a wall (stuff with your hands). Then again, I never went to lectures in uni vs reading books, papers…
> Creating a library also harms the development experience, because changes to the code no longer take effect immediately, as we need to build a library every time we make a change.[0] I see this criticism of libraries from monolith fans a lot, and it confuses me. That would be true anyway - you cannot use code until you've built it (unless it's in a language which is interpreted/unbuilt/uncompiled etc.). This would be true if the code lived in a…
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
- 226
- Total comments
- 98
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-08 | Software architecture for functional thinking at the system scale | delebe | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-11-24 | Polylith | omarfarooq | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-03-16 | Polylith is a functional software architecture at the system scaleFirst breakout · Best thread | laerus | 116 | 82 |
| 2024-07-29 | PolylithLatest 20+ point return | 0x63_Problems | 104 | 16 |
