Thanks! the major threads look to be:

My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349767 - Feb 2022 (200 comments)

Smoking a turkey with Prometheus, Home Assistant, and Grafana - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29361741 - Nov 2021 (71 comments)

Home Assistant – open-source home automation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28544835 - Sept 2021 (177 comments)

Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27779453 - July 2021 (76 comments)

IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25184763 - Nov 2020 (188 comments)

Open-Source Home Automation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665125 - Nov 2019 (231 comments)

Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826373 - Aug 2018 (196 comments)

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521743 - Oct 2017 (170 comments)