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> "I'm pretty excited, I've never won a single thing in my life before. And to do it in service of taking down evil patent trolls? This is one of the best days of my life, no joke. I submitted because software patents are garbage and clearly designed to extort money from productive innovators for vague and obvious claims. Also, I was homeless at the time I submitted and was spending all day at the library anyway." — Garrett, San…
More recent news about our fights against patent trolls: "Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns" (2021) https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo-redux-cloudflares-... "Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office" (2022) https://blog.cloudflare.com/former-rd-engineer-wins-round-2-...
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
- 2052
- Total comments
- 490
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-04 | The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood Up to a Patent Troll – and Won | GraemeL | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-11-04 | We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and WonFirst breakout · Best thread | eastdakota | 1675 | 246 |
| 2022-07-21 | How Cloudflare Stood Up to a Patent Troll – and Won (2019) | kkwteh | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-08-25 | Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019)Latest 20+ point return | tutfbhuf | 371 | 244 |