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The main reason I track page views and referrer data is to identify traffic spikes which are due to HN or twitter, to keep tabs on what’s being said about me or my work.

What’s the latest recommendation for what to use besides Google Analytics? I don’t need most of what the dashboard gives me. I exclusively use Google Analytics to keep track of page views and referrer…

> not unlike how you have to brake a little earlier when you have a full car of people versus just yourself If you’re noticing the increase in stopping distance due to three more bodies in your car…

I hate to ask, but are you fun at parties?

I would love to learn more about which precedents are relevant to this case.

Between the UN fact-finding mission saying Facebook played a “determining role” in the genocide, the Bosworth memo, and the shit ton of access we now have thanks to the whistleblower, how is this not …

Didn’t read the article, but I have to rant a little bit. Working with `useEffect()` is so fucking miserable. It’s a bit like owning a car where the gaps between the panels are just slightly too far a…

I think not being subjected to terrible, emotionally manipulative ads for 1/3 of the time you’re watching TV/Movies is the actual win for consumers in the streaming era.

Would you say it’s worse or better than living near a highway without sound barriers?

Something is terribly wrong with scrolling on that page.

Are these RegExps/Date objects passed as props? I’m not sure why a VDOM algorithm would have to handle these types of objects.

I wish the authors thought a little bit more about the actual physicality of typing out commands. `exa` on a QWERTY keyboard is typed on one hand, across three rows, and with the weakest fingers. I gu…

Look up Chess960! It’s a lot of fun.

The CEO (eastdakota) has previously said the clause does not apply to services like Cloudflare workers on this very site ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791605 ). I also think …

At no point in the blog post did they offer any conjecture about what was happening at Facebook. All of their information was general descriptions of DNS and BGP, or descriptions of how the Facebook o…

It’s amusing that this quote has inflated like most things today. Original quote was (“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's …

An alternative is to use soft tabs for anything that needs to be aligned, especially if the things appears after other code which is already indented. An even better alternative is to not use align co…

Who’s to say that our greatest writers didn’t “trip over meaning”? A lot of poetic processes involve finding, curating and re-contextualizing interesting phrases (see found poetry), and there’s potent…

I was a child once. I have distinct memories of playing with treadmills. Turning them on while sitting on them. Running Hot Wheels Cars on them while they’re running. The design of these treadmills is…

UTF-32 is a bit like giving up and saying code units equal code points right? I’m more interested in the comparison between UTF-8 and UTF-16, where UTF-8 requires 1 to 3 bytes just in the BMP, with 3 …

Why do people prefer UTF-8 coordinates? While for storage I think we should use UTF-8, when working with strings live it’s just so much easier to use UTF-16 because it’s predictable: 1 unit for the ba…

> I wouldn't really know though unless UCB is really only sourcing its main-stage talent from their classes, which I highly doubt. because if they were, that'd sound like a pay-to-play ty…

This post upsets me. I’m sorry, I can’t imagine anything more insipid than a UCB 201 class where the majority of students were software engineers. It’s yet another example of nouveau-rich tech workers…

> One classic example we ran into was DOM that we'd just rendered suddenly had a different structure because Google Translate would insert new DOM nodes. Gosh, this continues to be one of the …

Trying to get an input to autofocus with any reliability in browsers is the third hardest problem in computer science.

For Americans, if it were legal for you to post something today, your actions are legally protected thanks to Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 of the Constitution, which prevents “ex post facto” laws, o…

Some developers would interpret your rule as being, if it doesn’t make sense for you to make this property access on this specific object, the value should resolve to undefined and not null. Problem i…

Trying to finely parse the semantics of null and undefined like this is a fool’s errand, insofar as there isn’t much in the language which enforces your conventions. Also, these conventions fall apart…

As far as photos go, this photo isn’t well composed or evocative of anything. Compare this photo to the one of the Ohio COVID protests last year ( https://slate.com/human-interest/…