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 was part of this history, working for a military contractor from 1983 until 1992. From 1985 until 1990, I was project engineer for a complete rebuild of the DSP satellite system (NORAD missile warning) ground communications network. I consider it the peak of my engineering career. I got to go inside Cheyenne Mountain, got yelled at by a General when the system did something bad and he was called back from his vacation in Hawaii, got yelled at by…
This slide stood out: https://i.imgur.com/t7DAgJo.jpg Failure was accepted as a part of the culture. Today it seems the opposite. Any hint of failure and people seem to distance themselves from your future ambitions. More and more, we seem to be moving toward a world ruled by massive corporations, where small developers have almost no autonomy or freedom, and we're subservient to the concept of intellectual property and non-disclosure. The age of tinkerers building something huge seems to have been a…
I'm sure Steve Blank has his own hypothesis about what could possibly shake things up and restart the cycle of innovation in SV, would love to hear it. (that's the question he poses at the end of the lecture). My mind wondered towards the influence of open source software, and open solutions, across all that is tech today (ok fine, all software at least). Technologies developed in secret were thoroughly featured in the history covered, but today for example we…
Summary up to minute 37: After World War II the DoD partners with Universities, especially Stanford.
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
- 530
- Total comments
- 146
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-02-23 | Secret History of Silicon Valley | krn | 55 | 10 |
| 2015-02-01 | The Secret History of Silicon Valley (2010)First breakout | rbanffy | 132 | 44 |
| 2017-06-23 | Secret History | kornish | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-07-24 | Secret History of Silicon Valley (2009) | mathattack | 140 | 42 |
| 2019-11-04 | Steve Blank the Secret History of Silicon Valley | Anon84 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-06-18 | "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | cushychicken | 188 | 48 |
| 2021-11-10 | Silicon Valley's Secret History (Foundations in Defense and Intelligence) (2010) | guerrilla | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-11-13 | Silicon Valley's Secret History (Foundations in Defense and Intelligence) (2010) | guerrilla | 3 | 1 |
| 2021-12-30 | Secret History of Silicon Valley | simonebrunozzi | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-10-28 | Silicon Valley | guerrilla | 2 | 0 |