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 orderGood 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…
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…
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
- 491
- Total comments
- 81
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-31 | Sketch.systems: Formal Methods for UIs | hwayne | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-06-06 | Sketch.systems: UI design with interactive state machines | didgeoridoo | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-06-07 | Sketch.systems helps software designers think about complex product behavior | dhotson | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-08 | Sketch.systemsFirst breakout | lebek | 147 | 27 |
| 2019-12-15 | sketch.systems: Prototyping Applications as State Machines | pcr910303 | 4 | 1 |
| 2023-06-18 | Sketch.systemsHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | surprisetalk | 333 | 53 |
