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What is HackerNews but a system to stress test everyone's hobby websites?
by asdfman123 2y ago
What is HackerNews but a system to stress test everyone's hobby websites?
- atum47 2y agoEvery time I share a project I provide two links, one for my vps and another one for GitHub pages. Usually my projects run on the client, so I have never experienced the hug of death myself.
- ash-ali 2y agoI absolutely love this comment <3
- mey 2y agoBefore this Digg, before that Slashdot. What else am I missing?
- besus 2y agoFark
- entropie 2y agodel.icio.us anyone?
- mannycalavera42 2y agoyup!!! I've replaced it with https://pinboard.in/popular/ https://pinboard.in/popular/ now but it's not the same
- no_wizard 2y agoThere was a time where Reddit was good for discovery as well
- pjmlp 2y agoBefore we were all on USENET, some lucky ones were on Compuserve and AOL, and BBSs were limited by phone lines, not really anything to test loads.
- DeathArrow 2y ago>Before this Digg, before that Slashdot. >What else am I missing? You are missing Reddit.
- vram22 2y ago/u/seddit
- stevekemp 2y agoKuro5hin was pretty big, back in the day. But /. was the biggie, along with need to know. We get the term slashdotted from there, after all.
- _ywdj 2y agoOh man, the most helpful article I’ve ever read about depression and burnout was on Kuro5hin. Luckily it’s been preserved on Wikibooks: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression Still holds up well two decades later.
- f4stjack 2y agoHoly… I still miss kuro5hin. Wonder what is rusty doing nowadays.