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 orderThis is beautiful, thanks. Why not linking the creatures to their English Wikipedia pages to get curious folks more background? Wikimedia Foundation employee here in private comment. Just learnt the first time about the Leatherback Sea Turtle here.
The USS Johnston is no longer the deepest wreck found. That honor goes to another ship lost at the Battle Off Samar: the famous DE-413, USS Samuel B. Roberts. The ship's final action report: https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/NHC/NewPDFs/USN/Action%20re... "The crew were informed over the loud speaker system at the beginning of the action, of the Commanding Officer's estimate of the situation, that is, a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected, during which time we would do what…
>At 332 meters, this is the deepest any human has ever scuba dived. Set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. Yes. It took him 12 minutes to descend to depth... and 15 hours to ascend. But if you take a look at the wikipedia article for deep diving you'll note there's a record for a "simulated" dive that's much deeper, 701 meters, done in 1992. Simulated how? Why was it never repeated? Well... https://web.archive.org/web/20180127104927/http://gtuem.prae... >Hydra 10 was performed in the Comex…
Would be funny if it became increasingly harder to scroll due to the immense pressure. Was also kinda hoping for an easter egg down there after 1000m like the Deepcore Submersible Drilling Platform from The Abyss (1989).
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
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- Total points
- 1394
- Total comments
- 272
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-04 | The Deep Sea | Yuval_Halevi | 7 | 0 |
| 2019-12-05 | The Deep Sea | Gedxx | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-12-06 | The Deep Sea | DanBC | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-09 | The Deep Sea | bloke_zero | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-12-11 | The Deep Sea | ted0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-12-12 | The Deep Sea (Scrolling Experience) | stared | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-12-13 | The Deep Sea | DyslexicAtheist | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-14 | The Deep Sea | longdefeat | 20 | 1 |
| 2019-12-14 | The Deep Sea | jacquesm | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-12-15 | The Deep Sea | tambourine_man | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-12-15 | The Deep Sea | vo2maxer | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-12-18 | The Deep Sea | lelf | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-12-21 | The Deep SeaFirst breakout · Best thread | thereyougo | 703 | 96 |
| 2021-08-07 | The Deep Sea | diogenesjunior | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-11-08 | The Deep Sea | debo_ | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-11-20 | The Deep Sea | Tomte | 222 | 45 |
| 2023-06-21 | The Deep Sea | mckee1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-06-22 | The Deep Sea | romanovtexas | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-06-23 | The Deep Sea | CHB0403085482 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-06-23 | The Deep Sea | soheilpro | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-06-27 | The Deep SeaHall induction | throw0101a | 363 | 124 |
| 2024-11-19 | The Deep SeaLatest 20+ point return | takinola | 42 | 4 |