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 orderAuthor here, ask me anything. And don’t miss the related work section at the end — there’s a ton of links there to inspiring work.
Prior HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14806488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949995 — and the author’s HN posts/comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbostock
Discussion from a bit over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949995
Part of what the author talks about here makes me wonder about a potential application for visualizations like this (especially since I'm working on a general purpose 'structured data' visualization system). If seeing these visualizations of algorithms can significantly speed up human understanding, how beneficial would it be for onboarding people to (e.g.) open source projects, if the codebase had its central algorithms visualized? For instance, consider introducing someone to the Git codebase for the first time…
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
- 4
- Total points
- 2230
- Total comments
- 130
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-26 | Visualizing AlgorithmsFirst breakout · Best thread | callum85 | 1557 | 88 |
| 2015-02-03 | Visualizing Algorithms | coreyp_1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2015-09-14 | Visualizing algorithms | 9fb29947 | 182 | 2 |
| 2016-07-21 | Maze Generation Algorithms (2014) | pfooti | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-07-19 | Visualizing Algorithms (2014)Hall induction | swsieber | 152 | 12 |
| 2018-11-09 | Visualizing Algorithms (2014) | olooney | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-12-01 | Visualizing algorithms | sanj | 10 | 0 |
| 2020-04-27 | Visualizing Algorithms (2014) | matthberg | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-09-04 | Visualizing Algorithms | Brett_S | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-07-01 | Visualizing Algorithms (2014)Latest 20+ point return | mrv_asura | 294 | 27 |
| 2023-11-23 | Visualizing Algorithms (2014) | EndXA | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-12-24 | Visualizing Algorithms | mariuz | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-01-29 | Visualizing Algorithms | cocoacat | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-09-27 | Visualizing Algorithms | diginova | 16 | 1 |
| 2025-09-15 | Visualizing Algorithms (2014) | shminge | 3 | 0 |