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 orderIn a slight twist, and one that may only work for small classes of highly motivated students, I took a set theory class where the professor would sneak an impossible question into the homework. He warned us during the very first class that he would do that occasionally. So every few weeks, the four of us in the class would spend days trying to prove the continuum hypothesis or something, and going over the homework, he'd get to the question…
Nice approach. And wow, that makes me realize that I was doing it right after all as a student. I used to take the following approach, which maps surprisingly well to the author's teaching method: - Pay attention, but don't really take notes during class - Do the homework, but don't sweat getting stuck. Skip stuff that I hadn't picked up in class. - Take notes the next day when they went over the homework. Pay extra attention to the…
One of my favorites. Discussions from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850485 and from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4660842
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
- 339
- Total comments
- 92
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-29 | Teaching Linear AlgebraFirst breakout · Best thread | btilly | 208 | 59 |
| 2012-10-16 | Teaching linear algebraLatest 20+ point return | btilly | 118 | 31 |
| 2020-01-17 | Teaching Linear Algebra | nafizh | 5 | 2 |
| 2022-04-15 | Teaching Linear Algebra (2009) | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-05-15 | Teaching Linear Algebra (2009) | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-01-24 | Teaching Linear Algebra (2009) | tosh | 3 | 0 |