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 orderOne of the best UIs I've seen crossing over this line of death was the HTTP Basic Auth popdown in Opera 12. I've always wondered why that UI concept was never taken up by other browsers. ... will try and find a screenshot Edit: Couldn't find one so just installed it myself: https://pageshot.net/images/4af15a26-6eb8-45a2-b4d5-ed6ea19a... Edit2: dom0 beat me to it below also Edit3: reword
My masters thesis [1] was about ways browsers can help protect users from risks involving deception. We concluded that we can't stop attackers from imitating or manipulating UI/UX elements, but we can be clever about how we protect users by being more attentive to their interactions and more focused on subtle cues, rather than codified, absolute allow/block lists. We discussed about how most browser warnings currently fill the page below the line of death in a way that is easy…
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400291
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
- 890
- Total comments
- 147
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-14 | The Line of DeathFirst breakout · Best thread | bpierre | 566 | 105 |
| 2019-04-28 | The Line of Death (2017) | lelf | 18 | 1 |
| 2019-04-29 | The Line of Death | dazbradbury | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-04-30 | The Line of Death (Web Security) | mleonhard | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-06-07 | The Line of Death (2017) | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-08-02 | The Line of Death (2017) | Reventlov | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-03-18 | The Line of Death (2017)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | Natfan | 284 | 41 |
| 2023-07-10 | The Line of Death | g4zj | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-05-13 | The Line of Death | gavinhoward | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-06-15 | The Line of Death | tentacleuno | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-03-28 | The Line of Death (2017) | mooreds | 5 | 0 |