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 orderThe lead Wails developer has contributed a good deal of functionality and improvements to go-webview2, a library I wrote for interfacing with Windows WebView2 without needing CGo. While not a whole lot of people use go-webview2 directly (indeed, most people use it via Wails 2,) I am still glad that so many improvements made it upstream for whoever just wants direct bindings rather than a cross platform framework.
We built a background daemon as a macOS menu bar app in Go, and the performance was surprisingly bad. The Go bindings for native UI frameworks ended up being massive RAM hogs. When we profiled it, we found that the GC essentially gave up under load, which explained why customers were reporting a simple menu bar app consuming 2.5GB+ of RAM on their Macs. We eventually abandoned the Go approach and switched to Electron. (Not-so) Surprisingly, both the DX and…
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
- 499
- Total comments
- 170
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-30 | Wails [Beta]: Create Desktop Apps Using Go and HTML/CSS/JS | pythonist | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-10 | Wails v1.0 Released | dcu | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-04-21 | Wails: Desktop apps using Go and Web Technologies | kdrag0n | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-06-16 | Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by GoFirst breakout · Best thread | wener | 394 | 93 |
| 2025-11-24 | Build desktop applications using Go and Web TechnologiesHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | selvan | 98 | 77 |