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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-01-31 05:53:20 UTC to 2013-03-12 18:58:20 UTC.

012011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 2013

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20112011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20112011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20112011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20112011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20112011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20112011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20112011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
chc·Mar 12, 2013
> This is sounding painfully close to No True Scotsman argument. Well, excuse me for trying not to make over-broad claims. Would you like me to go find some Negaposi to prove that other people's Ruby code is unreadable? The thing about "No True Scotsman" that makes it bad is that it makes a categorical claim, but it defines the category in an arbitrary way. I'm not really making a categorical claim — I'm just saying that, much like any other language, Clojure authors can write readable or unreadable code. Clojure gives you slightly more powerful tools, but overly "clever" use of the tools available in Ruby can produce unreadable code just as well. > Also, for the number of times I've heard Clojure programmers say this, you'd think I would have at least ONCE been shown some of the programmer's actual code, in an effort to provide a concret
Read the rest
e example of how elegant Clojure is. Take a look at any of the more popular Clojure projects (https://github.com/languages/clojure is a good place to start). I find that they tend to be fairly readable.
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