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 orderI think the spirit of this article is correct, although some of the digs at modern web tech and SPAs seem to be beside the point. I used to have a "mildly dynamic website." It was a $5 digital ocean box. It ran nginx with php-fpm, mostly so it could have a Wordpress install in a subdirectory, and it had a unicorn setup for an experimental Rails app somewhere in there. Given that environment, the "mildly dynamic website" experience that…
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> PHP has the world's simplest deployment model for web applications: copy some files to a directory And set up a webserver. Perhaps compile mod_php for Apache and configure it, taking care to do it securely. Then configure php too, again taking care to do it securely. Only then you can drop a bunch of files in a docroot and have PHP process them. And put some .htaccess files in so that things that aren't supposed to be directly executed…
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
- 400
- Total comments
- 269
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-02 | The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website | hlandau | 4 | 2 |
| 2022-05-03 | The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic WebsiteFirst breakout | sophiewang | 128 | 89 |
| 2024-06-19 | The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 268 | 178 |