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 orderYears and years ago I saw an advertisement by a SAN array vendor where their gimmick was that they supported very cheap read/write snapshots of very large datasets, in combination with a set of transforms such as data masking or anonymisation. Their target market was same as the OP: developers that need rapid like-for-like clones of production. The SAN could create a full VM server pool with a logical clone of hundreds of terabytes of data in seconds, spin it…
Here's something very specific I've been thinking about recently. I think Google Cloud Cloud Run is obscenely ahead of its time. Its a product that's adjacent to so many competitors, yet has no direct competitor, and has managed to drive a stake into that niche in a way that makes it such a valuable product. Its serverless, but not "Lambda Serverless" or "Vercel Serverless" which forces you to adopt an entirely different programming model. Its just docker containers. But its…
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
- 437
- Total comments
- 277
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-19 | Software Infrastructure 2.0: A WishlistFirst breakout · Best thread | klintcho | 321 | 195 |
| 2023-06-16 | Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist | whoiskatrin | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-02-18 | Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist (2021) | shikhar | 12 | 0 |
| 2024-02-27 | Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)Latest 20+ point return | whoiskatrin | 102 | 82 |