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 orderThis uses Pyodide [0] under the hood [1], which is CPython compiled to WebAssembly. In all my tests of it, loading takes a long time ~5 seconds. Coldbrew [2], another distribution of CPython on Wasm, is another option with similar load times. And Brython [3] is a completely different option without long load time: a Python interpreter implemented in JavaScript. If load time is important, Brython is pretty nice. If feature completeness is important, Pyodide and Coldbrew are probably best…
For folks interested in seeing a usecase, I have a panel dashboard of Dallas crime statistics at: https://crimede-coder.com/graphs/Dallas_Dashboard Startup takes around a minute (which includes installing various python libraries + loading an external 5mb dataset). But once up and running it is quite responsive. (And works fine on my iphone.) Many businesses I work with use Tableau free versions, and just manually update the data (since the free doesn't allow direct connections to a datastore). This is a free…
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
- 596
- Total comments
- 210
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-30 | PyScript: Run Python in your HTMLFirst breakout · Best thread | gripfx | 317 | 65 |
| 2024-05-14 | MicroPython in WASM | diverted247 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-08-16 | PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browserLatest 20+ point return | xiaodai | 274 | 145 |
