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 orderAlas, this is almost off-topic but I'll mention it anyway. This is part of the "Reporting Bugs" section of the GNU /bin/false command: REPORTING BUGS Report false bugs to [email protected] I love commands with pesky names.
Adding copyright notices to every source code file is reasonable because it costs next to nothing. Figuring out what is copyrightable, on the other hand, is expensive, because it requires lawyers, and a waste of time because lawyers' answers are always "it depends". You never actually know how enforceable your copyright claim is until you actually litigate, which is REALLY expensive.
This is really silly. Not fun or interesting at all. Gnu coreutils wants all the command line utilities to respond to --help and --version. The version number is that of the coreutils package, if your ls is Gnu ls, it'll say the same number too: [2] g@alpha (0)$ /bin/true --version true (GNU coreutils) 8.26 Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and…
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
- 3
- Total points
- 456
- Total comments
- 166
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-30 | The /bin/true Command and CopyrightFirst breakout · Best thread | MatthewPhillips | 186 | 28 |
| 2017-10-12 | The /bin/true Command and Copyright (1990) | tosh | 125 | 55 |
| 2021-08-21 | The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)Latest 20+ point return | kmstout | 142 | 83 |
| 2024-10-13 | The /bin/true Command and Copyright | federicoponzi | 3 | 0 |