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 think one of the most amazing parts of Racket, and one of the reasons someone should try it out if they haven't, is that the source code and evaluator support images and not just text. The following link shows one aspect of this: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/ Just being able to put an image in a comment explaining your algorithm into your code would be huge improvement over the traditional syntax colored ascii you get with most languages and editors. There are…
A fun essay that really tries to nail down the "Why" in a real-world way. It mentions that functional programming removes the tripwire of state mutation as one of the "whys", but my experience slightly differs here. I found, after years of struggling with the "why" of object-oriented programming and its early obsessions with design patterns, that functional programming simply resonated with me personally. To this day, I have a bit of inner cringe when reading (for example) Java code…
Discussed earlier (2022, 151 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32839542
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
- 547
- Total comments
- 274
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-15 | Why Racket? Why Lisp? | AlexeyBrin | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-05-19 | Why Racket? Why Lisp?First breakout · Best thread | alokrai | 327 | 122 |
| 2022-03-21 | Beautiful Racket: Why Racket? Why Lisp? | behnamoh | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-09-14 | Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)Latest 20+ point return | davikr | 202 | 151 |
| 2025-01-23 | Why Racket? Why Lisp?Hall induction | awll | 11 | 1 |