Submission timeline
2007–2026
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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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.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI’ve enjoyed starting to work through the exercises on Cryptopals[1]. It teaches you the underlying concepts for different ways of encrypting information and asks you to write code to break them. [1] https://cryptopals.com/
Relevant to all his great stories of bad encryption: https://snakeoil.cr.yp.to
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
- 365
- Total comments
- 34
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-18 | So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers | aburan28 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-05-19 | Learning to break ciphersFirst breakout | libeclipse | 180 | 8 |
| 2021-02-12 | So, You Want to Learn to Break CiphersBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | noch | 180 | 26 |
| 2024-04-24 | So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers | luu | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-08-13 | So you want to learn to break ciphers? | fanf2 | 1 | 0 |