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 order"""Imagine if there were an alternate dystopian reality where law enforcement was 100% effective, such that any potential law offenders knew they would be immediately identified, apprehended, and jailed. If perfect law enforcement had been a reality in MN, CO, and WA since their founding in the 1850s, it seems quite unlikely that these recent changes would have ever come to pass. How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could…
There are a couple different arguments that have been developed to counter the government requests/propaganda for access to our data. Here, Moxie works on one I don't think has been popularized yet- To reform unjust laws, people must be able to break those laws. That is an argument against allowing the government to have total information awareness, because that access would allow the government to enforce laws perfectly, which would make some unjust laws permanent. I believe that is the…
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
- 687
- Total comments
- 185
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-12 | We Should All Have Something To HideFirst breakout · Best thread | tptacek | 438 | 147 |
| 2015-01-28 | We Should All Have Something to Hide (2013) | striking | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-06-01 | We Should All Have Something to Hide | bootload | 8 | 0 |
| 2016-02-27 | We Should All Have Something to Hide (2013)Latest 20+ point return | citizensixteen | 239 | 38 |