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 orderGiven the contents: 1. VECTORS 2. FORCES 3. OSCILLATION 4. PARTICLE SYSTEMS 5. PHYSICS LIBRARIES 6. AUTONOMOUS AGENTS 7. CELLULAR AUTOMATA 8. FRACTALS 9. THE EVOLUTION OF CODE 10. NEURAL NETWORKS a title "The Code of Nature" would also seem appropriate...
Awesome!! His first book 'Learning Processing' is what got me back into coding after a 5 year hiatus. Processing is a really fun language for experimenting and this should be a good book.
Daniel Shiffman is the creator of The Coding Train, which is one of the most wonderful places to learn programming using the Processing JavaScript library P5.js You can see his extensive catalogue of lessons here[0]. [0] https://thecodingtrain.com/CodingChallenges/
The complete book is available as HTML with interactive Processing.js examples here: http://natureofcode.com/book/
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
- 429
- Total comments
- 43
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-28 | Daniel Shiffman launches "The Nature of Code" online for freeFirst breakout | runemadsen | 115 | 11 |
| 2012-12-17 | The Nature of Code | mgunes | 4 | 0 |
| 2013-01-15 | The Nature of Code: free creative coding book w/ examples that run in browser | henning | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-07-10 | The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman (free eBook) | ApiM | 1 | 1 |
| 2015-03-23 | The Nature of Code | jdkanani | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-06-13 | The Nature of Code | amjd | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-07-24 | The nature of code | azeirah | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-04-11 | The Nature of Code – evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in code | disposedtrolley | 70 | 8 |
| 2023-04-25 | The Nature of Code (Book)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | pelasaco | 210 | 23 |
| 2024-08-09 | Nature of Code, 2nd Edition | satvikpendem | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-03-11 | The Nature of Code | ibobev | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-03-27 | Nature of Code | Tomte | 15 | 0 |
| 2025-12-14 | Nature of Code | ibobev | 3 | 0 |