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 orderHi all! I'm the editor of this post. I love traveling, and have always wondered how reservations systems worked. This post explores that. In the future, we're hoping to write a piece about how air fare pricing works too. There's a lot of interesting stuff re. fare buckets, forecasting supply + demand, etc. It's also very topical with COVID: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/... (If HN has any ideas about what else we should write about, let me know! I'm david AT retool.com)
ITA Software (acquired by Google) built its own non-mainframe GDS, and then ARS, which integrated into the legacy mainframe network. If you just look up some of these concepts and protocols, it looks cryptic but doable, but it's harder than it looks, and there's also some less-straightforward opcodes. Although there's documentation, it's not always enough, and consulting experts from IBM was necessary. There was also building regression test suites from captured real-world protocol traffic, to verify that you can…
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
- 319
- Total comments
- 95
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-02 | The Technology That Changed Air Travel | gk1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-05-18 | Technology that changed air travelFirst breakout · Best thread | bane | 185 | 63 |
| 2022-09-09 | The technology that changed air travel (2018)Latest 20+ point return | ibobev | 132 | 32 |