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.
Top comments
I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the internet [1] told me…
At the top of the page source: <!-- Ahh... I see you're a distingushing Internet user. You're really a "check under the hood" --> <!-- type of guy. I like that about you. I also like how you really told off that bully--> <!--at the Christmas party... you're such a stud. And have you lost weight? You're looking great.--> and at the bottom: <!-- You looked all the way down here?! Let's hump. --> Classic.
Write only? How do you use it after writing to it?
View-source: "You looked all the way down here?! Let's hump." While the value proposition is compelling, I think I'll pipe to my abacus instead.
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.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 631
- Total comments
- 228
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-04-12 | S4 - Super Simple Storage Service. Read Only Cloud Storge | iamelgringo | 1 | 1 |
| 2010-05-19 | S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storageFirst breakout | ulvund | 154 | 67 |
| 2010-06-05 | S4 - The Super Simple Storage Service | dfield | 1 | 1 |
| 2011-03-09 | S4 is Dev Null in the cloud. That's webscale | singingwolfboy | 2 | 2 |
| 2013-06-11 | Super Simple Storage Service | hazz | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-05-09 | S4 – Super Simple Storage Service | tiagobraw | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-01-07 | Super Simple Storage Service [Satire] | rudasn | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-04-09 | Super Simple Storage ServiceHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | jamespwilliams | 466 | 155 |