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 orderThank you very much for your interest, I greatly appreciate it! I hope you are all doing reasonably well. Please take care! This book was most recently discussed here in May 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121028 Since then, I have added a new chapter, Logical Foundations of Prolog: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/logic Also, I have made several other additions and improvements. You can see most of the changes since the last discussion in a public git repository…
One of the nicest examples of the power of prolog is that Windows NT contained a prolog implementation to take care of network configuration, replacing the previous codebase: http://www.redditmirror.cc/cache/websites/web.archive.org_84...
I've been using Prolog on and off for 20+ years (I actually bought and used Turbo Prolog by Borland under MS-DOS). I have to confess though, I've never quite understood Prolog or what it's for. I've followed Markus Triska and his Power of Prolog videos (watched all of them). I'd like to thank him for his work. This fellow is super smart about programming, and he appears to be singlehandedly re-inventing Prolog. His videos are of the highest quality content…
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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
- 3
- Total points
- 1049
- Total comments
- 311
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-05 | The Power of PrologFirst breakout | noch | 348 | 161 |
| 2018-08-07 | The Power of Prolog: An Introduction to Modern Prolog | striking | 36 | 1 |
| 2020-04-07 | The Power of PrologBest thread | fogus | 381 | 82 |
| 2022-06-06 | The Power of PrologLatest 20+ point return | jsfcoding | 279 | 67 |
| 2024-01-31 | The Power of PrologHall induction | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-01-16 | The Power of Prolog | andsoitis | 3 | 0 |