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 orderWhen my son was 5 or 6 I had a great discussion about salt containers - the little one you have on the table, the big packet in the pantry, the pallet that gets delivered to the supermarket, the vast piles of salt at the salt mine, and all that salt in the ocean. Next time we had an egg and he wanted salt I scratched my head and asked him what should we do .. take our egg to…
This answer by Peter Cordes is much more complete: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38549736
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
- 417
- Total comments
- 155
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-08 | Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels?First breakout · Best thread | panic | 309 | 121 |
| 2024-05-15 | Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (2016)Latest 20+ point return | aragonite | 105 | 34 |
| 2025-10-11 | Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? | hasheddan | 3 | 0 |