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 order>When I was at Google, someone told me a story about a time that “they” completed a big optimization push only to find that measured page load times increased. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. The team’s product went from being unusable for people with slow connections to usable, which caused so many users with slow connections…
We are soon coming full circle when this generation's programmers realize they can render html templates server-side.
"When I was at Google, someone [...] completed a big optimization push only to find that measured page load times increased. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations."
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
- 1523
- Total comments
- 774
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-08 | A large fraction of the web is unusable for people on slow connections | qznc | 23 | 3 |
| 2017-02-08 | The web sucks if you have a slow connectionFirst breakout · Best thread | philbo | 1269 | 598 |
| 2019-09-15 | Web Bloat | mpweiher | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-05-06 | Web Bloat | boredgamer2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-09-08 | [2017] The modern web on a slow connection | letientai299 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-06-05 | The modern web on a slow connection (2017)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | x14km2d | 222 | 173 |
| 2022-11-27 | The modern web on a slow connection | rrampage | 2 | 0 |