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 lived in a flat in England in the early 2000s which kept getting letters from the BBC saying we didn't have a TV licence. The letters were sometimes more threatening for a period, then sometimes more reconciliatory. They were also running TV adverts at the time claiming they had detector vans about, and if you didn't have a licence you'd be caught. I did some research at the time, and it seemed that evidence from a detector van had…
In the UK there's a tax for viewing live TV, and more recently for a subset of on-demand content (specifically from the BBC). Yes, it's a tax. Another bit of context that's important is that at the relevant times for this, you're looking at almost certainly 4 possible channels for most of the population of the UK. There's a few ways of viewing some of this One is simply that it's a lie and a deterrent. Not so interesting on…
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
- 227
- Total comments
- 408
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-31 | TV detector van | jacquesm | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-08-08 | TV detector vanFirst breakout · Best thread | rishabhd | 151 | 327 |
| 2022-06-12 | TV Detector Van | mdf | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-12-16 | TV Detector Van | tapoxi | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-12-14 | TV Detector VansHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | apsec112 | 71 | 81 |