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 orderWow! What a blast from the past. I originally submitted this article back in 2014 when it was hosted on my personal page hosted by my university. You can view the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222487 When I migrated to my own personal domain, I decided I would update the article to address the comments on that thread, and I think the end result was much better (but alas, I never had a reason to re-submit the article here). Obviously I do…
Issues I found at a glance: 1. This uses unsigned int for the chunk size, so the allocator will overflow on requests of 4GB or more despite taking a size_t. It seems that this is 32-bit only. 2. Even on 32-bit, the num_units calculation will overflow if you request (for example) 0xffffffff bytes of memory instead of returning an error. 3. None of this is thread-safe. It needs a global mutex lock. 4. EBP cannot be relied upon to yield…
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
- 339
- Total comments
- 55
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-15 | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in CFirst breakout | mbroncano | 142 | 23 |
| 2021-01-23 | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C | signa11 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-10-15 | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C | phyrex | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-04-08 | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2020)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | susam | 190 | 32 |