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
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Looks like it has been running for 20 years and is community operated? From the headline I misinterpreted this to be a commercial cloud. I used VAX/VMS and VM370/CMS in the 80s. I have fond memories of VAX/VMS and still log in to the machine at the computer museum to play dungeon. Would also program Lisp or so, but have not figured out how to transfer files. For IBM my feelings are more mixed. The VM side was certainly what…
Thanks for posting this. I use to do a bunch of AS/400 work when I was at IBM. I do miss working with it. This will be fun to mess around with.
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
- 258
- Total comments
- 105
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-28 | Pub400.com – your public IBM System I v7.4 server | ghuntley | 3 | 1 |
| 2022-09-30 | Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 serverFirst breakout | omnibrain | 108 | 41 |
| 2024-01-30 | Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 serverBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | throwup238 | 145 | 63 |
| 2025-06-24 | Pub400.com – Your public IBM i 7.5 server | BSDobelix | 2 | 0 |