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 orderI'll have to add some of these to my list of quotes that emacs greets me with. Current list: (defvar scratch-quotes (list "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson" "Look, I made a hat...where there never was a hat. - Finishing the hat, Sondheim" "Just fucking figure it out." "The universe is not here to please you. - Charles Murtaugh" "Your life is your life. The gods await to delight in you. -…
This quote, followed by google, followed by this video http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap2000000146968/Garo-Y..., made my night. "Many big people were chasing me. I didn't know what to do. So I thought I would surprise them and throw it." - Garo Yepremian, Miami placekicker, after a disastrous attempt to throw a pass in the Super Bowl.
So what I want to know is who the heck is Tara Ploughman? Google finds lots of hits, but they're all quotes (and mostly referring to pg's page of quotes). I think maybe pg made up this clever character.
Tara Ploughman ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889
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
- 385
- Total comments
- 160
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-26 | Quotes | rms | 5 | 4 |
| 2011-11-09 | Quotes | progga | 2 | 1 |
| 2014-12-26 | Great QuotesFirst breakout | jeremynixon | 147 | 73 |
| 2017-05-11 | QuotesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | drdre2001 | 225 | 82 |
| 2019-01-03 | Quotes (collected by Paul Graham) | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-06-26 | Quotes Curated by Paul Graham | neilkakkar | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-06-05 | Quotes | jger15 | 2 | 0 |