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 orderMany years ago in an age of klocs and flowcharts, at a large three-letter computer company, there were iron-clad coding rules that must be obeyed, no questions allowed. In general you could see their reasoning, but such bureaucratic reasoning doesn't pay off. One example of this was that all numeric values used in a program must be factored out as symbolic constants. The reason for doing this is obvious, but it failed to account for the fact that some numbers…
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d158fc7f36a25e19791d2... Variables `three`, `five` and `seven` are better described as `next_power_of_three`, `next_power_of_five` and `next_power_of_seven`. Since the `ext4_list_backups` function should iterate through 1 (= 3^0 = 5^0 = 7^0), 3, 5, 7, 3^2, 5^2, 3^3, 7^2, ... and 1 should not repeat three times, the initial value of `next_power_of_three` (or any of others) should be 1 and those of others should not be 1. The naming is a bit unfortunate (couldn't they be…
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
- 417
- Total comments
- 182
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-25 | `three = 1` in the linux sourcecodeFirst breakout | shark234 | 176 | 81 |
| 2016-08-09 | #fun? | arzzen | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-09 | `three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (2014)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | ddtaylor | 239 | 101 |