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 orderCreator here. Glad that HN rediscovered my old side project. All the code is freely available on GitHub [1]. It's running on a tiny f1-micro GCE instance which is currently down due to the traffic. I don't have time to fix it right now, but it should resolve itself once traffic dies down. The data source is also several years out of date at this point, so the links it returns may not match current reality. Other than that, it…
Creator here. It's exciting to see this back on the front page of HN! My poor little f1-micro instance is not holding up well against the traffic though I won't be able to migrate it to a bigger server today, but if you bookmark it and check back in a day or two, it'll be back up. If you think this is cool, I'm working on a huge new thing with some former Firebasers and others. Follow me @_jwngr on…
"Found 6 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Capitalism to End of the world in 2.01 seconds!" https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Capitalism&tar...
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
- 485
- Total comments
- 137
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-09 | Six Degrees of Wikipedia | marinehashbrown | 13 | 1 |
| 2021-09-20 | Six Degrees of WikipediaFirst breakout | sharkweek | 175 | 67 |
| 2023-01-10 | Six Degrees of Wikipedia | robin_reala | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-12-20 | Six Degrees of WikipediaBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | EndXA | 294 | 69 |
| 2025-04-19 | Six Degrees of Wikipedia | smartmic | 2 | 0 |