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 have seen Urbit a couple times but never really understood it. From the "Understanding Urbit" page - >Imagine that you can login from anywhere with one name and password. >And when you do, your entire OS appears. >Inside is your whole digital life. All of your communities, conversations, and connections. All of your biometric data and devices. Your entire personal archive in one place that’s secure, private, and designed to last forever. What does this mean? My whole digital…
This might be the most revolutionary technology in the world, but I really have no idea because your landing page is full of the vaguest most utopian promises. You might say, well, you should go read the "technical docs", but have read about so many hyped techonologies that came to nothing at this point that I am incredibly skeptical. If you can't tell me what you are doing in a single paragraph, then you've got a problem. If you can…
Urbit's documentation is impenetrable, with jargon formed out of generic nouns used without a coherent metahpor. This is an appropriate day for the submission, because it looks like an elaborate joke to somebody who wants to understand it.
Very exotic. How can I contribute if I wanted to write code for Urbit?
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
- 539
- Total comments
- 452
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-07 | Urbit is now in open developer betaFirst breakout | jonasrosland | 184 | 153 |
| 2017-09-21 | Urbit | tosh | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-01-15 | Urbit: a personal cloud computer | soohyung | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-07-27 | Urbit: a personal server built from scratch | bpierre | 9 | 1 |
| 2019-11-30 | UrbitHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | tomrod | 313 | 288 |
| 2021-03-09 | Urbit | fctorial | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-04-01 | Urbit: A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century | mikece | 15 | 7 |
| 2021-11-06 | Urbit – A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century | thunderbong | 3 | 2 |
| 2022-06-10 | Urbit: A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century | memorable | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-06-20 | Urbit – A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century (2016) | fao_ | 4 | 0 |