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 is a play on Darius Kazemi's Amazon Random Shopper: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-...
The dark web/deep web/dark net/whateveryouwannacallit has many legal things sold on it. My favorite story was a few years back, a vendor there was selling drugs. However, they also had their own coffee blend, and they would send a bag of their coffee with every purchase. Turns out the coffee was phenomenal. The vendor started getting so many requests to buy the coffee directly that they were able to just start selling coffee. I don't remember if that got them…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8586066
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
- 311
- Total comments
- 80
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-10 | Random Darknet ShopperFirst breakout · Best thread | janfoeh | 157 | 36 |
| 2015-01-02 | Random Darknet Shopper | Turukawa | 2 | 1 |
| 2015-01-09 | The Random Darknet Shopper Bot | dirtyaura | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-01-15 | Random Darknet Shopper Bot, Art Installation | jackarg | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-04-18 | Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art PieceLatest 20+ point return | objectiveariel | 147 | 43 |
| 2022-09-13 | Random Darknet Shopper (2014-2016) | robin_reala | 2 | 0 |