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 orderI generally agree with this article, but ... Small Web applications and sites are single tenant. That means that one server hosts one application that serves just one person: you. I feel like people forgot that shared hosting exists (e.g. Dreamhost, or Nearly Free Speech). One computer can serve tons of websites! It can serve multiple Hacker News spikes at once. And the site doesn't even need to be in a virtual machine or container. This is how "LAMP" /…
I'm generally on board with the sentiment, but some of this rhetoric is a bit much, even for me. > The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit. Come on now, "user" as in "computer user" was a term in use since long before the web.
I cannot get back the time I wasted reading that garbage.
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
- 246
- Total comments
- 242
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-07 | What Is the Small Web? | tbassetto | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-08-23 | What Is the Small Web? | wyclif | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-08-23 | What Is the Small Web? | axiomdata316 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020-08-25 | What Is the Small Web?First breakout | tbassetto | 89 | 118 |
| 2021-12-23 | What Is the Small Web? (2020) | dugmartin | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-01-02 | What is the small web? (2020)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | acqbu | 146 | 123 |
| 2024-06-26 | What is the Small Web? (2023) | Bluestein | 2 | 0 |