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 almost didn't bother to read this because it sure as hell looks like a crackpot tract, but I found a gem of a tl;dr in the third section: Because the legal world is comprised of contradictory rules, there will be sound legal arguments available not only for the hypothesis one is investigating, but for other, competing hypotheses as well. The assumption that there is a unique, correct resolution, which serves so well in empirical investigations, leads one astray when…
The exercise in the article is really fantastic: > Unless your responses were: 1) False, 2) True, 3) True, 4) False, 5) True, 6) True, and 7) True, you chose to interpret at least one of the words "Congress," "no," "law," "speech," and "press" in what can only be described as something other than its ordinary sense. Why did you do this? Were your responses based on the "plain meaning" of the words or on certain normative beliefs you hold…
This is brilliant and fascinating until the part where it goes off the rails into the "free markets solve all problems" swamp.
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
- 191
- Total comments
- 105
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-05 | The Myth of the Rule of LawFirst breakout · Best thread | ataggart | 100 | 35 |
| 2015-11-24 | The Myth of the Rule of Law (1995)Latest 20+ point return | Tomte | 86 | 69 |
| 2018-07-04 | The Myth of the Rule of Law | michael_fine | 5 | 1 |