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 order> rainbow palette for use in my data visualisations. Indeed for her kind of data the rainbow palette works okay. But if you have to visualize more complex / denser data, beware of the pitfalls of the rainbow color palette. It is not always the best choice. IBM did research back in the 90s on perceptually-based colormaps and how to best represent various types of data within the color dimensions of luminescence, saturation and hue [1]. For example, they found…
Beautiful palette! CSS recently has been adding way more color features, here's the palette represented in oklch: #817 → oklch(0.44 0.1815 335.38) #a35 → oklch(0.51 0.1559 7.49) #c66 → oklch(0.63 0.1298 21.44) #e94 → oklch(0.75 0.1415 62.42) #ed0 → oklch(0.88 0.18646 103.9148) #9d5 → oklch(0.82 0.181 131.77) #4d8 → oklch(0.80 0.1757 154.39) #2cb → oklch(0.76 0.1298 184.05) #0bc → oklch(0.72 0.123861 206.321) #09c → oklch(0.64 0.129199 231.0549) #36b → oklch(0.52 0.1448 260.03) #639 → oklch(0.44 0.1603 303.37) You…
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
- 748
- Total comments
- 202
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-18 | The 12-bit rainbow paletteFirst breakout · Best thread | tagawa | 421 | 121 |
| 2024-12-10 | The 12-bit rainbow palette | fanf2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-04-28 | The 12-bit rainbow paletteLatest 20+ point return | rguiscard | 325 | 81 |