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Previously: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public (12 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 https:/

Previously: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public (12 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology (12 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 (How does one get the actual date and not just "12 months ago"?)

aerovistae 5y ago
Yep, they're at it again. Did they learn nothing?
- dheera 5y ago
  Probably their VCs wanted more MRR rather than more respect of privacy, and it translated to this. Ultimately they are optimizing for profit, not (profit*ethics), and all of their actions will be guided by that optimization.
- rachofsunshine 5y ago
  This was the echo of old bad decisions, not a new one. It wasn't intentional on our part, and we're working on a fix. (See my top level comment for more detail on what happened.)
  - aerovistae 5y ago
    Appreciate the response :)
alfu 5y ago
The HN api includes the timestamp (unix time). For instance: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?pri...
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  I wish all sites that do the “x units ago” thing would put the time stamp in a title attribute.
  - nitrogen 5y ago
    If any accessibility experts are reading, is there a best way to do this? E.g. title attribute is best for mouse users to hover on desktop, but is there a way that works for all users on devices? Maybe the abbr tag? So far I haven't seen an html-only solution that works on mobile.
    - joombaga 5y ago
      Not an accessibility or html expert, but in the AWS console you can switch between "x days ago" and exact timestamp by clicking/tapping the timestamp.
    - andreareina 5y ago
      Not an a11y expert but I imagine that's what the <time> element[1] is for. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...
    - kodah 5y ago
      I've been developing my new website and use "x days ago" which is a feature of most date libraries like luxon or moment. I modeled what GitHub does where you can mouse over the text and it produces the actual timestamp. On mobile that doesn't work, so I print the date in disabled text.

aerovistae 5y ago

Yep, they're at it again. Did they learn nothing?

dheera 5y ago
Probably their VCs wanted more MRR rather than more respect of privacy, and it translated to this. Ultimately they are optimizing for profit, not (profit*ethics), and all of their actions will be guided by that optimization.
rachofsunshine 5y ago
This was the echo of old bad decisions, not a new one. It wasn't intentional on our part, and we're working on a fix. (See my top level comment for more detail on what happened.)
- aerovistae 5y ago
  Appreciate the response :)

alfu 5y ago

The HN api includes the timestamp (unix time). For instance: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?pri...

ceejayoz 5y ago
I wish all sites that do the “x units ago” thing would put the time stamp in a title attribute.
- nitrogen 5y ago
  If any accessibility experts are reading, is there a best way to do this? E.g. title attribute is best for mouse users to hover on desktop, but is there a way that works for all users on devices? Maybe the abbr tag? So far I haven't seen an html-only solution that works on mobile.
  - joombaga 5y ago
    Not an accessibility or html expert, but in the AWS console you can switch between "x days ago" and exact timestamp by clicking/tapping the timestamp.
  - andreareina 5y ago
    Not an a11y expert but I imagine that's what the <time> element[1] is for. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...
  - kodah 5y ago
    I've been developing my new website and use "x days ago" which is a feature of most date libraries like luxon or moment. I modeled what GitHub does where you can mouse over the text and it produces the actual timestamp. On mobile that doesn't work, so I print the date in disabled text.