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 wrote a an article going into the technical details here: https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/tree/main/markdown/HowI... I also released the code for the game engine. Available here: https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/tree/main/markdown/Tuto...
If anyone is interested about how this was made, I wrote a blog post about how I made fontemon and which type features I used: https://github.com/mmulet/code-relay/blob/main/markdown/HowI...
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
- 743
- Total comments
- 84
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-17 | Show HN: Video Game in a FontFirst breakout · Best thread | ghub-mmulet | 605 | 76 |
| 2021-03-18 | Video Game in a Font | Chirono | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-03-19 | Fontemon | akalin | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-19 | A Game Implemented entirely in a Font | peteretep | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-21 | Code relay – Fontemon –worlds first video game in a font | wglb | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-05-26 | Fontemon: Video Game in a FontLatest 20+ point return | susam | 128 | 8 |
| 2026-02-11 | FontemonHall induction | Tomte | 2 | 0 |