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 orderStories like these are the ones that inspire me the most. People using technology in a way that helps them in their everyday lives, or in a hobbyist fashion. I feel like many of the things I pick-up at work are out of career necessity: the latest framework, bits of an up and coming language that is going to be "the future", semi fluency in a stack so I can aid in a project,I enjoy it, but I don't enjoy…
I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever helps…
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
- 664
- Total comments
- 239
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-26 | Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQLFirst breakout · Best thread | flocial | 465 | 191 |
| 2021-03-21 | Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 193 | 48 |
| 2023-07-24 | Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019) | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-04-10 | Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019) | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-06-02 | Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019) | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-09-17 | Running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019) | tosh | 1 | 0 |