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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
An counter not counting unique visitors or has an rate-limit is the easiest target for anyone knowing how to run an `wrk` command.
There is a reason, why such things aren't this simple.
Comment · 6 years ago
Finally. Really happy with it, except that the explorer/trending and trending page hasn't been updated yet. I hope that will follow to protect my eyes from that brightness contrast at night and in the morning.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thats why I read the title first, decide whether it is important or relevant to me, if so I check it out. If I like it, I upvote it and if I have something to throw into the discussion I add a comment. Personally, I use the numbers to indentify "quality" and "valid facts". Invalid posts have a large number of comments and less upvotes.
Comment · 6 years ago
Because they are recommended or have been explored by a lot of people. Would you buy a product off Amazon without seeing the number of reviews? How do you know it is "quality content".
More votes than comments = something worth reading and seems to be valid content. Less votes than comments = seems to have invalid points with a big dicussion.
HNs "quality index" for each post can be "calculated" by everyone. Without these numbers you don't know these kind of informations. The title of a post should always be in the focus, thats for sure. But thats why it has a larger font.
Comment · 6 years ago
I wouldn't see a good point for this. HN is focused on these counts, because only they allow you to identify the "importance" and "discussion size". Would be like twitter without a like and retweet counter. How do I know its important? Is it something I support and give a like, to boost its rank?
Something like [1] is more useful than hiding information.
Comment · 6 years ago
Quick note on this one. ETags have been used for years, but there is a court case from 2011 and before, speficaly noting this ETag technology as undeletable cookies. Was just a click away from the Wikipedia page. So I think anybody using it, would have an huge issue with the laws. Personally, I think the tracking pixels are more interesting to look at.
https://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigao...
Comment · 6 years ago
Personally I think it is connected to adding more features to GitHub. Microsoft is rolling out more and more small but also big changes, and as everyone knows, this always can have a few minutes downtime for each update.
Comment related to the article: I always wanted to dive deeper into functional programming languages. Especially, because I more and more run into stuff, that is just simpler to model in a recursive pattern. Maybe I'll give it the a new try within the next weeks and see how far I come.