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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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Author here. Amusingly, I wanted to link to the HN discussion on the page, but couldn't figure out how to... I don't think it's possible! Something I hadn't considered until just now with a content addressable web is there are no cycles in the links. Edit: Another amusing anecdote. I've been following this on log2viz (the heroku realtime performance monitoring tool), and was aghast to see high response times and memory usage. Then I realized I was actually looking at…
Oh, wow. I didn't expect to see this on HN today. This was a toy app I wrote to learn a bit more about Elixir, Phoenix, and Phoenix's concept "channels" (websockets). I submitted it a long time ago to HN. I wrote a bit more about it on my blog: http://gabe.durazo.us/tech/ephemeral-p2p-project/ (wow, I need to update my blog). Unfortunately, it's not really that p2p, contrary to the name. There's a server running on heroku that manages all the websocket connections…
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HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1046
- Total comments
- 232
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-12 | Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at itFirst breakout · Best thread | losvedir | 803 | 165 |
| 2019-09-21 | Show HN: Page exists only if someone is looking at it (2015) | shrthnd | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-09-06 | This page exists only if someone is looking at itLatest 20+ point return | netcraft | 240 | 67 |