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 orderThis reminds me of “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath, which has a quote Aziz Ansari used in his series “Master of None”: > "I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a…
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Why should a failure prevent you from an upcoming success and why should a success that adds no meaning to your life anymore hold you from venturing out and trying something different? Though we might blame external sources for our current state, in reality it is nothing else but our own self imposed restrictions that hinder our ability to create change. The key here is to accept responsibilities of your choices and allow yourself to alter the ones that don’t…
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
- 514
- Total comments
- 573
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-15 | What If You Could Do It All Over? | fortran77 | 6 | 0 |
| 2020-12-15 | What If You Could Do It All Over? | CapitalistCartr | 3 | 1 |
| 2020-12-16 | What If You Could Do It All Over? | jgwil2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-12-26 | What If You Could Do It All Over?First breakout · Best thread | jonas21 | 447 | 442 |
| 2025-06-04 | What if you could do it all over? (2020)Latest 20+ point return | FinnLobsien | 57 | 130 |