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 was there live! Good times. A friend convinced me to dip out of another session to go watch Gary's talk. I feel lucky. I've seen Gary give a few talks. All fantastic. The Birth & Death of JavaScript is my second favorite. The fact that he stayed in character as someone from 2035 for the entire talk and used a slightly evolved English.. brilliant. I saw that at Strangeloop and have fonder memories than the PyCon rendition on his…
WAT is classic and very funny, but I recommend all software engineers to watch all of Gary Bernhardt's talks on his website: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks His talk about "Boundaries" taught me one of the most illuminating concepts I've learned in my career, about separation of concerns, functional core & imperative shell, unit testing, etc., and radically changed the way I write code - the talk uses Ruby as an example, but can be applicable to any language under the sun. In fact…
You are late by 582 days [1]. Looks like the duplicate filter missed the duplication because of https vs. http. I wonder if the duplicate filter should be changed to consider https and http equivalent? Are there sites that serve different content on URLs that differ only that way? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515845
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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
- 682
- Total comments
- 179
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking