jperras

I would posit that "old web" could be defined as the period before Google Search became public (<~1997).

But maybe that's more a measure of my own age and perceptions rather than an accurate representation of the various eras of the internet/web...

18 year HN vet here. I've forgotten most of these, even though I was around for nearly every single one of them!

> Before you spend many thousands of dollars on a machine better suited to a coffee shop, consider getting a minimalist lever machine.

Agreed. I have a Pavoni Europiccola, and it's made approximately ~11,000 espresso shots (about half of those ended up as milk-based beverages). It makes excellent coffee, and I live in a place where there are a _lot_ of good coffee places around to compare to.

The maintenance is something I do myself, with a few small & inexpensive tools, and a few gaskets I need to replace. The machine will likely outlive me, which is a rare thing to say these days.

There's also /classic, which only counts votes from user accounts created before a certain cutoff date.

The cutoff used to be early 2008, I believe, but that may have changed in the last ~17 years :)

If you go back further than that, teams used to destroy entire engines for a single qualifying.

The BMW turbocharged M12/M13 that was used in the mid-eighties put out about 1,400 horsepower at 60 PSI of boost pressure, but it may have been even more than that because there was no dyno at the time capable of testing it.

They would literally weld the wastegate shut for qualifying, and it would last for about 2-3 laps: outlap, possibly warmup lap, qualifying time lap, inlap.

After which the engine was basically unusable, and so they'd put in a new one for the race.

> Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. > [...] > You can have "have you launched yet?", "find the next best thing", "what's trending today"...etc

OP: I may or may not be in possession of hasitlaunched dot com, should you be interested in purchasing it…

> The only time exponential backoff is useful is if the failure is due to a rate limit and you specifically need a mechanism to reduce the rate at which you are attempting to use it.

That's what you should be using exponential backoff for. In actuality, the new latency introduced by the backoff should be maintained for some time even after a successful request has been received, and gradually over time the interval reduced.

> I much prefer setting a fixed time period to wait between retries (would you call that linear backoff? no backoff?)

I've heard it referred to as truncated exponential backoff.

16 year HN vet here.

This place has both changed a _lot_ and also very little, depending on which axis you want to analyze. One thing that has been pretty consistent, however, is the rather minimal amount of trolls/bots. There are some surges from time to time, but they really don't last that long.

Very fair. The line between conscientious preservation and alienation can be (and often is) an easy one to cross.

Québecois here. We've been trying to tell the rest of Canada this for _decades_.