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 orderPatrick notes in detail that the post is written with Colin's approval. I am not a customer of any of Patrick's services, nor am I a customer of Colin's, although perhaps I should be a customer of both. The most telling part of the post is right here, beginning with a quotation from the Tarsnap FAQ: " >Q: What happens when my account runs out of money? " >A: You will be sent an email when your account balance falls…
Billing is why tarsnap was too unreliable for prod usage for me. You deposit funds with a credit card, a difficult-to-predict usage calculation occurs based on how many deduplicated blocks of new data and how many API calls you will use in the next few weeks and months, and then eventually, at an essentially random time, you get an email from tarsnap guessing you have about a week of funds left and warning that your data will be deleted a…
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
- 911
- Total comments
- 395
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-03 | What I Would Do If I Ran TarsnapFirst breakout · Best thread | tnorthcutt | 801 | 311 |
| 2017-04-07 | What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap (2014) | ploggingdev | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-04-01 | What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap (2014) | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-07-24 | What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap (2014) | rdpintqogeogsaa | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-11-15 | What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap (2014) | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-07-30 | What I Would Do If I Ran TarsnapHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | reubano | 101 | 84 |