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> The reason, of course, is OS X. Powerbooks are beautifully designed and run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know? This. I have actually lost sleep since the announcement. I keep going over in my mind alternate hardware, but the fact is that macOS (OS X) is the single best operating system for developers today. I am generalizing "developers". For any embedded development, or HDL stuff, OS X will not be a nice experience. But for web or…
Before the inevitable comments regarding Apple's moves with macOS and how the hacker 'tide' is supposedly turning back against Apple, I think I'll chime in with my two cents. I switched from my 2015 MBP to a Surface Book 2 at the end of 2019, and switched back to my same, six-year-old MBP just a few months ago. To keep things short, whilst WSL puts Windows miles ahead of where it once was, I find that the same old rough-edges…
[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago. I'm interested to know what the proportions of OSes are today.
And then there are the people like me, who buy a MacBook Pro and install Linux on it. Interesting to note pg pointing out Apple's openness. I don't really consider them all that open these days, but I suppose they're better than many companies. I guess my perception of their lack of openness is more due to their treatment of the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch than that of their laptops. Apple is open when they think that can make them money, closed…
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
- 3
- Total points
- 352
- Total comments
- 535
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-07-03 | Return of the Mac | byrneseyeview | 16 | 15 |
| 2010-03-12 | Return of the Mac | manish | 16 | 40 |
| 2011-08-08 | Return of the Mac (2005)First breakout | unwantedLetters | 92 | 108 |
| 2016-11-01 | Return of the Mac (2005)Best thread | rocky1138 | 121 | 191 |
| 2019-04-13 | Return of the Mac (2005)Hall induction | pcr910303 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-06-23 | Return of the Mac (2005) | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-07-04 | Return of the Mac (2005)Latest 20+ point return | jnieminen | 100 | 181 |
| 2022-10-18 | Return of the Mac (2005) | artogahr | 2 | 0 |