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 orderIf you like this project, you may be interested in a similar project that I did a while back using using the turtle interpretation of grammars to represent connections between LEGO bricks: https://github.com/jncraton/connectiongrammar The "API" is admittedly quite poor currently, as I just quickly hacked this together on top of NLTK, but I was able to put together some fun results.
A few years ago, I wrote an esoteric, minimalistic turtle graphics language called CFRS[]: <https://susam.net/cfrs.html>. This was an exercise in making a turtle graphics language that is as minimal as possible. It is closer to Brainfsck than JavaScript and it is not Turing complete, by design. To see some demos, go to <https://susam.github.io/cfrs/demo.html>.
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
- 703
- Total comments
- 121
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-14 | TurtletoyFirst breakout · Best thread | njn | 382 | 61 |
| 2020-09-07 | Turtletoy – Create generative art online using the Turtle graphics API | dgellow | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-11-21 | Turtletoy: Create generative art online using a minimalistic Turtle graphics API | ingve | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-12-03 | TurtletoyLatest 20+ point return | ustad | 317 | 60 |