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 orderIt's pretty amazing how much classic software can actually run, and works pretty well. The Wolf3D clone is totally playable, and you can actually use LSDJ (one of my all-time favorite pieces of software), and it seems to be actually running the real LSDJ, too, which is pretty impressive, considering that it means that the site actually has an embedded gameboy emulator
My four year old doesn’t believe that computers ever looked or loaded like this. Hacker News is ‘farty’ and ‘telling stories’ today. Edit - The four year old doesn’t believe that I went to school. This is going to be quite the ride to daycare...
I've been staring at the half life 3 loading screen for the last 6 hours. I don't think it's going to start.
In the trash can there's a strange zip file you can download. Unzipping it reveals a readme.txt, which says: Sorry, no album download for the moment, our server is under reddit hug... The album is also here : https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v Going to this bandcamp it mentions: THE IDEA BEHIND THIS ALBUM WAS TO MAKE A DEVIANT DANCE MUSIC LABEL TO RELEASE THIS HORRIBLE TRACKS, BUT THIS PROJECT WENT TOTALLY WRONG AND BECAME THE THING KNOWS AS WWW.WINDOWS93.NET THERE IS A LIMITED…
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
- 4
- Total points
- 2394
- Total comments
- 583
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-25 | Windows 93 | MrBra | 91 | 25 |
| 2015-03-07 | Windows 93 in JavaScriptFirst breakout | hackhat | 291 | 73 |
| 2015-03-11 | Windows 93 | epaga | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-03-28 | Castlegafa on Windows 93 | erbdex | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-06-07 | Windows 93 | jarcane | 5 | 1 |
| 2016-02-09 | Windows 93 (in browser) | svermigo | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-05-10 | Windows 93 | synthecypher | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-10-12 | Windows 93 (2014)Best thread | hxw | 790 | 113 |
| 2017-06-11 | Windows93 SP2Hall induction | ivank | 517 | 121 |
| 2019-02-12 | Windows 93 | lonk | 3 | 1 |
| 2020-03-02 | Windows93 | piqufoh | 630 | 232 |
| 2021-07-28 | Windows 93Latest 20+ point return | matbatt38 | 30 | 7 |
| 2022-06-10 | Windows93 SP2 (2017) | ddtaylor | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-10-27 | Windows 93 | metadat | 7 | 4 |
| 2024-01-01 | Windows 93 | flexagoon | 19 | 4 |
| 2026-02-23 | Windows93.net | mistat | 4 | 2 |