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 orderLooking at the screenshot in full size [1], it looks really cool but the text is visibly blurry (look at the = signs for example). Text rendering is hard, and especially for a text editor it's a good idea to just use the current platform's text rendering instead of rolling your own. Of course SDL "rolls its own" because it focuses on being exactly the same on every platform. SDL seems to offer font hinting which would somewhat solve the…
The community decided to work on a fork of it and extend it further: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
Looks really nice! :D I wish it supported arm64 on Windows or at least win32 32-bits so that I could run it on a Surface Pro X.
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
- 783
- Total comments
- 334
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-18 | Lite – A lightweight text editor written in Lua | rxi | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-04-26 | Show HN: Lite – A lightweight text editor written in Lua | rxi | 4 | 3 |
| 2020-05-09 | Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editorFirst breakout · Best thread | rxi | 607 | 256 |
| 2022-10-11 | Lite: A lightweight text editor written in LuaLatest 20+ point return | nateb2022 | 171 | 75 |