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 orderThroughout my career I've definitely been lumping the skills described in this article about not doing work in with the whole "10x developer" catch phrase. Like: Customer needs a CMS. Clyde looks at the requirements for the CMS. He sets off to write hundreds of thousands of lines of code by himself, complete with CI, continuous deployment, tests and documentation because he is a very good developer. Through the course of the project he leverages his years of experience and…
My dream was always to be hired into obscure government bureaucracy and automate the data entry job away, while hiding it. After that, you basically exist in a free incubator. Imagine the software you can write, if freed from societies expectations of sweat, tears and busy work. Not to be rich, just to be technical excellent, productive and at peace. I wonder why this has not yet happened with open source. If a sufficient enough part of the public uses…
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
- 580
- Total comments
- 411
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-25 | Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer | ranko | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-01-27 | Why I Strive to be a 0.1x EngineerFirst breakout · Best thread | ingve | 445 | 272 |
| 2017-06-24 | Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016) | galfarragem | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-03-06 | I Strive to Be a 0.1x Engineer | vinnyglennon | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-11-10 | I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | dgs_sgd | 126 | 139 |