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.
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HN comment orderHey, author of the project and the 2013 post here. Just wanted to wish everyone amazing holidays! Thank you for love and shares :D PS: More projects since 2013 can be found here: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A... - hope you enjoy it.
Someone also reimplemented it in Mathematica http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/175891
Neat idea. Hidden within the ReadMe file, someone re-wrote this tree in Wolfram but made it ornamented looking. [0] Going further, the same author of the latter tree had a post picked by staff titled “Random Snowflake Generator Based on Cellular Automaton.”[1] Another very cool idea for this time of the year. [0]https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/175891 [1]https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/235291
In 128 bytes. https://www.dwitter.net/d/16979
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
- 3
- Total points
- 1253
- Total comments
- 91
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-12-27 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas treeFirst breakout | adamnemecek | 321 | 26 |
| 2018-12-25 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree | adamnemecek | 266 | 19 |
| 2019-12-25 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)Best thread | adamnemecek | 595 | 44 |
| 2020-12-25 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013)Latest 20+ point return | adamnemecek | 55 | 1 |
| 2020-12-25 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013) | adamnemecek | 10 | 1 |
| 2021-11-26 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013) | busymom0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-12-24 | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (2013) | adamnemecek | 2 | 0 |