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 orderWhen seen as a [1 3 3 1] (the 4th row of Pascal's Triangle) kernel, it is more easily revealed as a discrete Gaussian kernel, which is for example used in scale-space representations in image processing.
As I just told a colleague who told me of this post, "I'm so old I don't even know how to use that [this] site." :) Happy to answer questions or address criticisms.
Previous discussion (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10404517 He's updated it since then several times
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
- 415
- Total comments
- 76
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-17 | The magic kernelFirst breakout · Best thread | wazoox | 207 | 32 |
| 2021-02-11 | The Magic Kernel Sharp – image resizing algorithm | gelstudios | 8 | 0 |
| 2021-03-16 | The Magic Kernel | mjgoeke | 3 | 1 |
| 2021-03-19 | The Magic KernelLatest 20+ point return | aleyan | 197 | 43 |