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 orderI think it is because people (designers, coders, etc) get bonuses and paychecks for creating stuff more than tearing down stuff. Put this on your resume -- "Implemented feature x, designed y, added z" vs "Cut out 10k lines worth of crap only 10% of customers used, stripped away stupid 1Mb worth for js that displays animated snowflakes, etc". You'd produce a better perception by claiming you added / created / built, rather than deleted. So it is not surprising…
Ads are definitely a huge problem, but it seems they are at least equally, perhaps even less of a contributor to bloat than the tons of off-the-shelf Javascript frameworks/libraries major websites throw in to perform analytics, or to implement stock features like user-comments, login, social-media stuff, etc. I mean, just looking at the network resources for a fresh download of www.cnn.com, I see: livefyre_base.js, 167KB - apparently some kind of user-comment library cdn.optimizely.com/js/131788053.js, 93.2K -…
For years website size was an acceptable proxy for user experience, but that's really not true today. Web browsers are much more complex about what they download, when, and how that impacts the user experience. Looking at page weight and say "that's bad" is too coarse of a perspective. Is a page downloading a 600KB "main.min.css" that's blocking the rendering path? yeah, that's bad, especially when only 60% of the rules are used on your most common pages. Downloading 1-2…
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445 129 days ago with 1122 upvotes
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
- 4
- Total points
- 1796
- Total comments
- 725
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | The Website Obesity CrisisFirst breakout · Best thread | jmduke | 1122 | 367 |
| 2016-05-09 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | kercker | 117 | 90 |
| 2017-04-11 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | juliangoldsmith | 197 | 83 |
| 2018-08-01 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | pmlnr | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-09-09 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | MilnerRoute | 67 | 30 |
| 2020-02-09 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | sysoleg | 49 | 22 |
| 2021-06-01 | The website obesity crisis (2015)Hall induction | wilsonzlin | 119 | 89 |
| 2023-01-21 | The Website Obesity CrisisLatest 20+ point return | zhte415 | 114 | 43 |
| 2024-05-14 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | ProZsolt | 4 | 1 |
| 2024-05-31 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | CGamesPlay | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-05-05 | The Website Obesity Crisis (2015) | ozornin | 3 | 0 |