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 orderA few years ago I was wondering what this would look like and (less accurately) modeled it in 3d: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2630/4085959963_8dc8217283_o.j...
What a fascinating premise. Kudos to the author for doing such a thoughtful analysis. His technique for arriving at the cross-sectional shape is especially interesting. I would have never considered that the optimal cross-sectional shape to have been anything other than a circle. I wonder if it would be possible to orbit the ring in the axial plane, around a single arm of the torus? Or even in a lemniscate, intersecting the inner Lagrange point?
> while strongest slightly hubward from the "poles". This can be a fairly major difference. Spotted the discworld fan.
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
- 449
- Total comments
- 112
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-05 | Torus-EarthFirst breakout · Best thread | Kutta | 266 | 62 |
| 2017-10-29 | Torus Earth (2014) | mef | 110 | 17 |
| 2022-07-14 | Torus-Earth (2014)Latest 20+ point return | 10000truths | 73 | 33 |