The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects
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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
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Those are only for fun, but real stuff are designed to be deliberately inconvenient (e.g. against homeless people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
This has been submitted to HN before, but I was inspired to post it again after encountering the digital equivalent of it in one of Fastmail's "features".
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
- 285
- Total comments
- 85
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-07 | The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objectsFirst breakout | rusk | 114 | 26 |
| 2020-12-10 | A collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects | tothrowaway | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-04-03 | The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects | webmaven | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-04-06 | The Uncomfortable | dvt | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-01-25 | The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objectsBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | throwup238 | 163 | 58 |
| 2026-03-13 | The Uncomfortable | bookofjoe | 1 | 0 |