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 orderI 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.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 631
- Total comments
- 228
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |