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 orderMy wife is currently in the Marshall Islands commemorating an anniversary related to the nuclear testing. The trauma and fallout, cultural and nuclear, persists to this day - over 7 decades (and how many generations?) since the Bravo test. I've heard and read a lot about the atrocities visited upon the Marshallese in the name of research in the last six months. Including around the potential "intentionality" of the human testing [1]. It is harrowing. And a hard pill to…
> “It’s equivalent to 216 Empire State Buildings being blown into the sky,” Palumbi says. > the armada of sunken warships, including the USS Saratoga, an aircraft carrier the length of a Manhattan avenue block that lies on the lagoon’s bottom. Ughh, More "Journalist-SI units of measurement." Would it kill him to actually describe the mass displaced in kg or lb, and say the actual length of the warship? I get that he's trying to to dumb down measurements so…
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
- 365
- Total comments
- 197
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-27 | What Bikini Atoll Looks Like TodayFirst breakout | sohkamyung | 181 | 100 |
| 2020-10-24 | What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017) | acdanger | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-03-11 | What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | voxadam | 182 | 97 |