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 orderHaving worked at a place with 11+ years of a project in ZeroVer, I would caution against ZeroVer as it can mentally wear on software developers. The 0. is not something embraced, but a taunting God who takes pleasure in suffering. The followers of ZeroVer all believe that with some combination of magic and hard work a 0. will turn to a 1., but the mighty 0. never rolls over. To topple the 0., they will try tricks like a…
People just love LTS and backwards compatibility too much. I'm one of them. But it slows the industry, when you can't do API refactors and have to keep bad decisions forever. I think library authors should be more relentless and break compatibility every few years. We just need some conventions to not do so very often. Like new major version every year, deprecate API on the next major version, remove deprecated API on the following major version. So you have…
if it should never exceed zero, why not omit the zero?
The section "Featured Use Cases" is hilarious! Thanks for making me chuckle.
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
- 743
- Total comments
- 361
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-01 | ZeroVer: Cutting-edge software versioning for minimalists | mhashemi | 29 | 3 |
| 2019-12-17 | ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning | lelf | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-01-17 | ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning | guessmyname | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-04-23 | ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning | maple3142 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-07-29 | ZeroVer | Gaelan | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-08-12 | ZeroVer: 0-Based VersioningFirst breakout · Best thread | polm23 | 570 | 262 |
| 2023-07-08 | ZeroVer: 0-Based VersioningLatest 20+ point return | dmitryminkovsky | 102 | 88 |
| 2025-02-25 | ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning | fanf2 | 12 | 5 |
| 2025-02-27 | ZeroVer: 0-based Versioning: cutting-edge software versioning for minimalists | pabs3 | 17 | 3 |
| 2025-04-18 | ZeroVer: Cutting-edge software versioning for minimalists | gilad | 1 | 0 |