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 order"A little bit of this also has to do to stick it to all those luddites people on the internet who post "that's impossible" or "you're doing it wrong" to Stack Overflow questions... Requesting permissions in the JNI "oh you have to do that in Java" or other dumb stuff like that. I am completely uninterested in your opinions of what is or is not possible. This is computer science. There aren't restrictions. I can do anything I want. It's…
This is pretty great. The biggest reason I hate doing android development is the java (and to a lesser extent, kotlin) "ecosystem" is a pain. Java is a sucky language to write; Kotlin is less bad, but the whole build tooling/package management/IDE mania mess is still a hassle to use. So thanks to the author.
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
- 752
- Total comments
- 302
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-09 | Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps in CFirst breakout · Best thread | pantalaimon | 389 | 155 |
| 2022-08-27 | Rawdrawandroid: Build Android apps without Java, entirely in C and Make | ducktective | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-09-22 | Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and MakeLatest 20+ point return | doodlesdev | 359 | 147 |