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How HN took it
14 positive, 38 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 14 critical, out of 67 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Performance: 8 for, 6 againstIdea: 6 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Slow chunked page loading evokes BBS nostalgia
From 3 comments
I love watching the text load in discrete chunks!
em3rgent0rdr on HNGave me a flashback to bbs days!
bredren on HNI don't have that. My response headers: ``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: mTCP HTTPServ Mar 7 2020 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:30:00 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 5355…
Thorrez on HN
Page is tiny and loads very fast when cached
From 2 comments
Is it just me… this website has the snappiest page load!
tomthumb on HNNice! Thanks for serving me. It was snappier than expected.
rkagerer on HN
Objections
Cloudflare use undermines the authenticity of the self-hosted setup
From 2 comments
This uses CloudFlare and the page is cached (CF-Cache-Status: HIT header). Kinda disappointing that we're not receiving data from your compunet but rather the CloudFlare edge…
quenix on HNPlease for the love of kittens turn off Cloudflare and never put it on again. For me and other Tor users that awful service is a guaranteed way of ensuring we'll never see your…
nonrandomstring on HN
Site went down under Hacker News traffic due to the 38400 baud link
From 2 comments
Big ooof, of course it's down. I'm hosting a simple static site on a Core 2 Duo + 4GB RAM and it's amazing just how slow the hardware is. It can barely handle 100 concurrent…
jotm on HNLink doesn’t work
controlledchaos on HN
Requests
Keep the site up without Cloudflare
From 2 comments
Please see the comments on this thread. It was directly internet facing when I posted it initially. Hacker News managed to bring it down. I had to add a cached reverse proxy. If…
serentty on HNDitch cloudflare and write the web server in assembly and see if it holds up to raw HN traffic. Bonus points if you have an L1 cache and can fit and serve your entire website…
orangepurple on HN
Add Ethernet and more RAM to improve performance
From 2 comments
Poor 386. 25MHz ... an SX, I'd guess? Man, you should get that upgrade to 8 megs of RAM. Windows 3.1 benefitted greatly and even OS/2 Warp, which already worked fine with 4 megs,…
MrYellowP on HNFor the record, the machine is running the mTCP web server: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_HTTPServ.html I wrote it back in 2014 and I've hosted brutman.com on it at times. My…
mbbrutman on HN
Questions
How is the bandwidth and power consumption compared to other hardware
From 2 comments
What is the power consumption? Curious how it compares against a Raspberry Pi Zero.
csdreamer7 on HNIts a good reminder that you can! My issue with these projects is how much energy they use for whatever task they can do. I have a 10 year old machine that was a high end machine…
vmception on HN
Why is the title using MiB rather than MB
From 1 comment
Why does the title have the 'i' in 4 MiB of RAM? That's 4 megabytes, right? Traditionally 4 MB? What does the extra lowercase letter indicate? I'm not used to that, and I've been…
Cd00d on HN
Alternatives named
Cloudflare caching
From 1 comment
This uses CloudFlare and the page is cached (CF-Cache-Status: HIT header). Kinda disappointing that we're not receiving data from your compunet but rather the CloudFlare edge…
quenix on HN
Netlify or static hosting
From 1 comment
True, but that's a weird point as you can use free shared hosting (like Netlify) then as an example that you don't need any paid resources at all to take a website live, but the…
capableweb on HN