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 graduated with a BA in English with a Technical Writing concentration 15 years ago. I did the job for a few years and, honestly, it sucked. At best, I was treated like an idiot by developers. Developer aloofness seemed much worse back then — they were never wrong. I was always at the end of the software development cycle, so there was never enough time budgeted to do good work. Management couldn’t decide if I was a tester and…
Normally, I love free resources like this. I don't mean to throw shade at Google... but can anybody tell me if there is a set of documentation that Google has created that you would hold up as a standard that you would personally like to match? I can't think of anything. I really think Google needs to get a lot better at documentation before they start passing out classes like this.
Love that Google is doing this. I am an engineer and an aspiring blogger. Looking forward to taking this course.
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
- 806
- Total comments
- 110
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-27 | Google's Technical Writing Courses for Engineers | raybb | 10 | 0 |
| 2020-02-28 | Technical Writing Course by Google | lhoff | 18 | 1 |
| 2020-02-28 | Technical Writing Courses for Engineers | planetjones | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-02-29 | Technical Writing Courses for Engineers | tomklein | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-02-29 | Technical Writing Courses for Engineers | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-03-03 | Technical Writing Courses | mooreds | 5 | 0 |
| 2020-03-04 | Technical Writing – Google Developers | axiomdata316 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-03-22 | Technical Writing CoursesFirst breakout · Best thread | Lilian_Lee | 571 | 73 |
| 2021-06-19 | Technical Writing Courses – Google Developers | walterbell | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-08-08 | Technical Writing Courses from GoogleHall induction | sebnun | 165 | 36 |
| 2024-02-09 | Technical Writing Courses for Engineers | quick_brown_fox | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-03-16 | Technical Writing | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-01-29 | Google's Technical Writing CoursesLatest 20+ point return | dvrp | 23 | 0 |