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 got into this situation once. I got pretty far into my recovery before being stymied by the discovery that tar is only distributed via tar archives: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
"rm -rf /" was how I advanced in career. A long time ago, in a job far, far away, I was a lowly CAD Operator making technical drawings of electrical diagrams and switchgear enclosure plans. This was on Tektronix terminals each attached to their own Tektronix servers (which as I recall ran BSD at first then switched to SVr4) A fellow lowly cad operator decided to try out the "rm -rf" command (at that time we each had superuser access…
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
- 362
- Total comments
- 135
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-03-23 | Unix recovery legendFirst breakout · Best thread | araneae | 220 | 83 |
| 2014-06-14 | Unix Recovery Legend (1986)Latest 20+ point return | ColinWright | 138 | 52 |
| 2016-02-06 | Unix Recovery Legend | mrzool | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-03-23 | Unix Recovery Legend (1996) | whitehat2k9 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-07-06 | Unix Recovery Legend | relyio | 2 | 0 |