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 orderThere's something very seductive about languages like Rust or Scala or Haskell or even C++. These languages whisper in our ears "you are brilliant and here's a blank canvas where you can design the most perfect abstraction the world has ever seen." But, for systems programming, abstractions suck. They always, always have a cost. When abstractions break, you not only have to deal with a broken system but the broken abstraction itself too. (Anyone who has ever seen a gcc…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7962345 << 527 days ago, 356 comments
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7962345
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
- 870
- Total comments
- 811
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-29 | Why Go Is Not GoodFirst breakout · Best thread | pohl | 438 | 356 |
| 2014-12-02 | Why Go Is Not Good | sgt | 15 | 2 |
| 2015-12-09 | Why Go Is Not Good (2014)Latest 20+ point return | kushti | 413 | 453 |
| 2017-10-27 | Why Go Is Not Good | max0563 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-09 | Why Go is not good (2014) | tosh | 2 | 0 |