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 orderLove this article. It makes statistics enjoyable and accessible. Most of Olah's old stuff is also really good, especially the one on manifolds and neural networks [1] [1] https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/
I really enjoyed this article, it was very accessible. Recently I've been studying some literature on stochastic optimal control, and I've bumped into the KL-divergence concept a number of times, but never really understood it. I expected this article be a fun read, but I never expected to learn something so directly useful! Information theory really does show up everywhere.
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
- 708
- Total comments
- 66
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-14 | Visual Information TheoryFirst breakout | benkuhn | 151 | 21 |
| 2017-03-20 | Visual Information | bkudria | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-07-24 | Visual Information Theory (2015)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | less_penguiny | 543 | 45 |
| 2022-04-30 | Visual Information Theory (2015) | ivanvas | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-07-27 | Visual Information TheoryHall induction | ivanvas | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-05-25 | Visual Information Theory | teleforce | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-11-09 | Visual Information Theory – colah's blog | diginova | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-01-29 | Visual Information Theory | surprisetalk | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-06-09 | Visual Information Theory | montyanderson | 2 | 0 |