The second is annotated with "Bot activity: combated with some HN/YC software".
"Diffie and Hellman win Turing award"
Second biggest right before:
"Stripe Atlas"
"Microsoft acquires Xamarin"
"Apple / FBI dispute"
That's noted in the graphic, but closer to the X-axis rather than at the top of the spikes.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/03/22/beckett-storming...
In fact, as far as I've learned, a lot of the work here involves stopping bad actors/users rather than finding ways to get users.
I just spend the last couple minutes trying to view that picture and had nothing but issues.
It first opened in the imgur app, but there it only showed a zoomed out preview which I can't just zoom in on, I need to click to open it again larger but then it wouldn't let me zoom past a given point. So I uninstalled the app, re opened the link and it loaded in their web UI, which had the same issue as the mobile (can't zoom enough). I then long pressed the image, opened it in a new tab, had to modify the URL to remove the "fidelity=medium" in the URL, and I could finally view the image in my browser and zoom in on it...
Maybe I'm an exception, but smartphones always had terrible usability for me.
I thought that I had only recently made an account only to realize that I had made this account 4 years ago. I suppose the effect is amplified since HN hasn't had any distinct "eras", be them in design, site rules or community.
https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
The graph in this case ended up being just a base layer for some interesting internet stories, while paying some tribute to HN for the great place it is.
Let me know if this works for you
Maybe that’s just me, but you know, I would assume that means something.
So eh, Apple? You guys listening?
