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 orderSergey and Larry didn't code much though. This one's hilarious: In the book, early Google engineering boss Craig Silverstein says "I didn't trust Larry and Sergey as coders." "I had to deal with their legacy code from the Stanford days and it had a lot of problems. They're research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code that's maintainable." One Google engineer from back then says the most remarkable thing about the co-founders' code was that when it…
Earlier in dotcoms, I dug up his old email address this way, for a reason that seemed important at the time... Some Google megacorp faceless bureaucracy combat drones (that was their initial approach) were trying to force me to give up a domain name, and implying they would take legal action and "prevail". I couldn't afford a lawyer, and I had better things to do with my time, but... I wasn't yet using the domain name, and probably would've let…
Contra all the chuckleheads making jokes about him never getting hired anywhere today, this is actually an extremely impressive resume for a third-year graduate student. He had a sole-author publication in a top conference already!
It's missing the photo: http://nexuslex.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/1996-sergey-brin...
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
- 433
- Total comments
- 186
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-03-01 | Sergey Brin's Resume Pre-Google | ashishbharthi | 50 | 16 |
| 2014-03-22 | Sergey Brin's Resume (1993) | AndyBaker | 1 | 1 |
| 2015-02-16 | Sergey Brin's Resume as a StudentFirst breakout · Best thread | krat0sprakhar | 139 | 53 |
| 2016-09-23 | Sergey Brin Resume (1996) | hitr | 109 | 50 |
| 2019-08-03 | Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996)Latest 20+ point return | eniz | 134 | 66 |