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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.
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HN comment orderThis looks really fantastic. Is anyone working on let's name it CookHub already? So essentially GitHub for receipts. The nerd in me wants to fork receipts and share my small adaptations to the community.
> Slowly add @milk{4%cup} [- TODO change units to litres -], keep mixing No! Handle units! @milk{4%cup} should be trivially convertible to liters and configured by the user. For harder conversions (volume to mass) keeping a list of ingredients and their densities (configurable of course) would be extremely useful. On that subject, being able to specify a recipe in terms of ratios and then automatically convert it to scale would be a super power that I can't beat by hand…
Big in: 2023 (179 points, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36500182 2021 (415 points, 146 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997309
This is pretty cool but how strong is the overlap between developers and people writing recipes?
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
- 616
- Total comments
- 258
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-26 | Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup LanguageFirst breakout · Best thread | dubadub | 415 | 146 |
| 2023-06-27 | Cooklang – Recipe Markup LanguageLatest 20+ point return | SethKinast | 179 | 108 |
| 2025-02-13 | Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language | havan_agrawal | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-03-02 | Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language | dither8 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025-03-24 | CookLang – Recipe Markup Language | rickcarlino | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-05-09 | Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language | freetonik | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-09-17 | Cooklang – A Recipe Markup Language | smartmic | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-03-17 | Cooklang: A Recipe Markup Language | snaily | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-06-02 | Cooklang – A Recipe Markup Language | emerongi | 2 | 1 |