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 orderSeriously cool. That also reminds me of DragonFlyBSD's process checkpointing feature that offers suspend to disk. In Linux world there were many attempts, but AFAIK nothing simple and complete enough. To be fair I don't know if DF's implementation is that either. https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=sys_checkpo... https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=checkpoint&...
Congratulations! You have just reinvented the core idea of UCLA's LOCUS distributed computing project from 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS Reinventing LOCUS also has a strong heritage. Bell Lab's Plan 9, for example, did so in part in the late 1980s. While never a breakout commercial success, tele-forking and its slightly more advanced cousins machine-to-machine process migration and cluster-wide process pools intrigued some of the best minds in distributed computing for 20+ years. Unfortunately "it's…
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
- 792
- Total comments
- 208
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-26 | Teleforking a Process onto a Different ComputerFirst breakout · Best thread | trishume | 572 | 132 |
| 2022-05-31 | Teleforking a Process onto a Different ComputerLatest 20+ point return | kaladin-jasnah | 218 | 76 |
| 2024-03-23 | Teleforking a process onto a different computer (2020) | _xivi | 2 | 0 |