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 orderVery nice, but the description of Focault's pendulum, near the end, is incorrect. > ... though the pendulum appeared to change direction as it swung, in fact the plane of its swing remained constant .... Nope. Unless you're at one of the poles, the period of the rotation of the plane is not 24 hours; the plane can hardly be fixed. Wikipedia says a bit about this: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Focault_pendu... And there was a nice article in the American Mathematical Monthly some…
> Veterans of the military and the airmail service still insisted they could fly "by the seat of the pants," and they thought less of those who could not. Their self-deception now seems all the more profound because the solution to the problem of flying in clouds and darkness -- a gyroscope adapted to flying -- was already widely available. Reminds me quite a bit of programmers who insist that any formal developments process (including lightweight agile ones) is a…
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
- 254
- Total comments
- 55
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-10 | The Turn (1993)First breakout · Best thread | karzeem | 146 | 32 |
| 2013-02-02 | The Turn (1993)Latest 20+ point return | js2 | 103 | 23 |
| 2021-02-16 | The Turn (1993) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-02-26 | The Turn (1993) | js2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-05-02 | The Turn (1993) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |