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 orderMy favorite Knuth quote: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study." source…
One the aspect I like the most about this man is how approachable and down to earth he still is after all these years. I'll give one example. Late on night, my friends were in the basement of the Gates building at Stanford working on their CS107 Heap Allocator project. Lo and behold, Donald Knuth walks by and sees them drawing all sorts of things on the white board in the hallway. "What's that?" he asks, to which my friend…
https://archive.md/fPkcB
(2018) Discussion and anecdotes then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651
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
- 1113
- Total comments
- 367
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-17 | The Yoda of Silicon ValleyFirst breakout · Best thread | sohkamyung | 976 | 331 |
| 2019-04-22 | The Yoda of Silicon Valley | rbanffy | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-08-01 | The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018)Latest 20+ point return | wglb | 128 | 33 |
| 2022-07-07 | The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) | ivanvas | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-02-19 | The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) | RafelMri | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-05-04 | The Yoda of Silicon Valley (2018) | Tomte | 5 | 1 |