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 orderBecause though there might be building trades conferences, there are no hammer conferences. Oh, there will be tool vendors at the building trades conferences, there might be sessions on "Efficient Hammering Techniques Using Machine Learning", but there are no conferences about hammers. Don't forget about the blacksmith conference next week, they'll have hammer vendors, too. I dunno, a Ruby conference kinda makes sense because one will mostly build web sites with it, so it's really going to be a "Building…
Can someone start one? I'd love to go. I used c++, golang, python, javascript over the years, even tried Rust briefly. Turns out I'm most productive in C, I can get stuff done the fastest way in C and one month later I can still understand the code. Posix C with all its libraries can do so many wonders, many of the traps and pitfalls are well known, fuzzing test can further secure the code, and, it's just that unbeatable-ly…
Yes! Thank you. Perhaps now that all conferences are virtual, costs will be low enough to see this happen...
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
- 623
- Total comments
- 562
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-21 | Why Aren't There C Conferences?First breakout · Best thread | ingve | 466 | 372 |
| 2020-09-02 | Why Aren't There C Conferences? | pcr910303 | 4 | 1 |
| 2022-08-26 | Why aren't there C conferences? (2018)Latest 20+ point return | optimalsolver | 153 | 189 |
