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.
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HN comment orderThat looks pretty amazing. Check out Fracture - http://www.fractureme.com/ - I bet they would look unreal printed with their tech.
To me the most interesting part about this is how looking at the comments here it's apparently a great Rorschach test. "Whatever I draw always ends up lookiing like a uterus.", "everything I try ends up looking like some kind of bug", "Any image I make with this one looks like e-cigarette packaging", etc.
Silk inspired my Christmas Postcards project. It's now offline, but I have displayed best drawings on my site: https://lekevicius.com/projects/postcards/ At the time it was discussed quite a bit on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966004
This has been around since 2011 at least, I remember playing this in the apple store at the mall when I was bored waiting for my parents. Cool to see it resurface on HN!
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
- 3
- Total points
- 1636
- Total comments
- 246
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-10 | My winter break project — SilkFirst breakout · Best thread | yurivish | 687 | 88 |
| 2011-02-12 | Silk | shawndumas | 2 | 0 |
| 2013-03-26 | Silk – Interactive Generative Art | mvikramaditya | 74 | 33 |
| 2013-07-23 | Silk Weave | syntaxgoonoo | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-11-19 | Silk – Interactive Generative Art | hjc89 | 3 | 0 |
| 2015-05-23 | SilkHall induction | cdvonstinkpot | 442 | 63 |
| 2019-08-04 | Silk | luu | 332 | 36 |
| 2020-12-10 | Interactive Generative Art | doener | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-01-06 | Silk – Interactive Generative Art | caminocorner | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-24 | Silk – Interactive Generative Art | portims | 5 | 0 |
| 2021-05-27 | Silk – Interactive Generative Art | boyter | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-12-19 | Silk – Interactive Generative Art (2011)Latest 20+ point return | bluemars | 85 | 26 |