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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2018–2023
peak thread · 53 comments
333 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-06-18
333 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One 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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Good lord I could've really used this a few months ago when I was butting heads with product management insisting on building things first rather than prototyping. This might have helped communicate the complexities that I feel were being glossed over, in a way that was approachable to non-programmers and non-designers. Definitely giving this a go, thanks for sharing! One thing that tripped me up was the name. I use Sketch[1] quite a lot and the reason I clicked the…

mstade·333-point thread·

Seems like a somewhat unfortunate naming when one of the leading design prototyping tools are called Sketch (https://www.sketchapp.com/). Looks pretty cool, though.

Hopefully more people identifying themselves as software engineers will use Finite State Machines to better ensure correctness of the system. Within a San Francisco company recently, suggesting that they create FSM diagrams was met with resistance that such things seemed frivolous. Asking for Sequence Diagrams, they presented an architecture map. This confusion occurred with most of the people I asked: e.g., team lead and manager, each with more than a decade of professional experience. This company is well over a…

dpezely·4-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
491

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
81

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-05-31Sketch.systems: Formal Methods for UIshwayne40
2018-06-06Sketch.systems: UI design with interactive state machinesdidgeoridoo10
2018-06-07Sketch.systems helps software designers think about complex product behaviordhotson20
2018-06-08Sketch.systemsFirst breakoutlebek14727
2019-12-15sketch.systems: Prototyping Applications as State Machinespcr91030341
2023-06-18Sketch.systemsHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnsurprisetalk33353