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 orderGlad to see an Electron application that finally has a decent, native-looking, unsurprising UI :-). (Edit: sadly, I'm only half-joking. I was thinking about how fun it would be to extend this so as to bridge the host and the guest via e.g. a socket, so that I could get notifications about UI events inside the machine on the host, which would give me Visual Basic 6's UI builder and all the greatness of a 21st century machine, so that…
From the technology point of view running-real-software-as-JS-in-your-browser is always impressive and entertaining to watch. Cheers to the developers for such fun projects! When we talk about efficiency of (other) electron apps made for productive use… the web page says this project does run Doom (cool) at a resolution of 640x480. So electron cripples my 2022 machine down to something like a 100 Mhz Pentium. That is totally fine for a funny tech demo, but I hate the need to use…
MacOS one day?
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
- 374
- Total comments
- 195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-23 | Show HN: Windows 95 in an Electron AppFirst breakout · Best thread | felixrieseberg | 213 | 110 |
| 2020-02-17 | Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows | delian66 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-03-26 | Windows '95 in Electron | yankcrime | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-12-01 | Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows | LyalinDotCom | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-06-27 | Windows 95 in ElectronHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | modinfo | 137 | 80 |
| 2025-11-17 | Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows | thunderbong | 19 | 5 |
| 2026-04-15 | Windows 95 in Electron | rmason | 1 | 0 |