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've been making a language called TXR for ... oh, ten years this coming August now. It combines a Lisp dialect ("TXR Lisp") with a whole-document pattern-based extraction language ("TXR Pattern Language"). It takes the form of a simple executable with a few satellite files in your /usr/share. Lots of "batteries" are included in TXR Lisp: object system with static and instance slots, single inheritance, GC finalization and a form of RAII, exception handling, delimited continuations, byte code compiler for…
Author of this blogpost here. I think the post is good, though it's mostly aimed at the perspective of "Racket is a very practical Lisp, for getting things done, akin to how Python is a very practical lisp" and also "DrRacket gives an accessible entry-point for Lisp for newcomers." Unfortunately I don't think Racket quite took this to be the rallying cry I hoped them to, to embrace Racket's lispiness as "The Python of Lisps" (which was the other alternate…
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
- 473
- Total comments
- 296
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-09 | Racket Is an Acceptable PythonFirst breakout · Best thread | paroneayea | 280 | 168 |
| 2019-07-10 | Racket Is an Acceptable Python | nemoniac | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-07-11 | Racket Is an Acceptable Python | _emacsomancer_ | 7 | 0 |
| 2022-05-24 | Racket Is an Acceptable Python (2019)Latest 20+ point return | behnamoh | 181 | 128 |