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 recently started playing Factorio, and I kept thinking that this is what "low code" integration/automation tools should look like. Developer tooling with extremely clear visuals, obvious dataflow, endless combinations into which the rigidly defined components can be assembled to do exactly what they do. As opposed to so many takes on "flow based" programming, which present some imperfect nodal representation of the program, but rarely can the user make sense of what's going on by seeing stuff moving around…
Here’s the HN discussion for Bartosz Milewski’s analysis of Factorio, where he shows functional counterparts in Haskell of Factorio’s patterns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26157969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29299140
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
- 331
- Total comments
- 181
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-16 | Understanding Kafka with Factorio | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-11-22 | Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)First breakout | pul | 133 | 72 |
| 2023-07-13 | Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | pul | 196 | 109 |