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by moot 13y ago
I'm pretty certain 4channers are good at tracking down profile URLs from just a Facebook image URL/filename. I don't think you can access the full album per se, but you can definitely locate the profile.
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by moot 13y ago
> If he reworked old code just to save 50 bytes, that would probably be a mistake, but it sounds like the work was being done anyway and he had the choice to save 50 bytes OR use a longer domain name. Basically this. I thought it was an
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by moot 13y ago
Totally. In our case the main security benefit is that we allow the uploading of SWFs, and it mitigates the threat of cookie stealing via Flash (which we've actually seen attempted). Previously we'd used 4channel.org for this, but
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by moot 13y ago
The 50 bytes figure represents a compressed response. (We actually write all of our pages compressed to disk before serving them -- nothing is served dynamically. But that's for another post...) The example below isn't the most sc
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by moot 13y ago
You're absolutely right -- it is negligible. When you're serving upwards of a petabyte per month, 23 GB isn't exactly a lot! > On the other hand, if saving single bytes was significant, there would be a lot more potentia
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by moot 13y ago
I think you're confusing the two benefits. What the thread OP is talking about is the decrease in page size from the URLs included in the page source. Choosing a shorter URL for the static domain versus a longer one resulted in a rough
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Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain(chrishateswriting.com)
444 points by moot 13y ago|131 comments
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by moot 13y ago
I agree that it's a mistake for most sites to have a forum as some ill-conceived appendage (I once exclaimed to a friend that "forums are favelas!" on most sites), but think interest-based communities have a bright future.
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by moot 13y ago
> But now I want to write an "HN Alerts" service that notifies you whenever someone writes a comment with a certain keyword. You should absolutely do this.
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by moot 13y ago
No worries. I don't normally respond with as comprehensive a rebuttal, but was in a write-y mood today (and as someone who hates writing, this is not something to pass up).
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by moot 13y ago
Please consider this a polite "no."
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by moot 13y ago
> But... they work. They're not unsustainable. If they were, the very example you cite wouldn't exist. I disagree. Wikipedia is one of the best examples of sustenance-by-ongoing-donations, but it's an extreme edge case. Th
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by moot 13y ago
Haha, I didn't pre-write it -- I'm just used to it. I was in fact puzzled by this getting upvoted and not receiving any comments, so I refreshed the page a few times.
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by moot 13y ago
Oh boy, one of these! Let's look at 4chan's growth over the years, taken from my post commemorating our billionth post: https://www.4chan.org/news?all#106 In 2008, 4chan was accessed by 30 million unique visit
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Reflecting on Steve Pavlina's 2011 post, "Why I Shut Down the Forums"(chrishateswriting.com)
78 points by moot 13y ago|39 comments
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by moot 13y ago
"AppleCrate II: A New Future" Fuck the iWatch and iTV -- I want an AppleCrate II. "The Hacker News is a Work of Art" Indeed it is.
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Ephemerality goes mainstream, ¡Viva la Snapchat!(chrishateswriting.com)
5 points by moot 13y ago|0 comments
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by moot 13y ago
Because 4chan is the worst place on the internet!!!!!!!!!
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by moot 13y ago
https://gyp.blogs.balabit.com/2009/03/anon-youve-been-infctd... I think this was my "We've made it!" moment with 4chan. When people are writing viruses tailored to your service, you've clearly
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by moot 13y ago
I loathe nested comments and vastly prefer inline quote previews and backlinks. Then again, I'm biased.
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by moot 13y ago
> Of course Youtube being right below 4chan's /b/ in terms of online discussion it was a very risky decision. I've always taken pleasure in pointing out that 4chan doesn't have the worst comments, and that title
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by moot 13y ago
I've been extremely happy with CloudFlare. 4chan probably wouldn't be around today without them. CF has helped us by mitigating every DDoS since we started with them two years ago, and have kept operating costs in check by offerin
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by moot 13y ago
I know this man's feels. 4chan is only one month older. It's like we're cousins.
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by moot 13y ago
All great web services are measured in their initial "time til dicks" — or TTD.* *Dicks can be substituted for Goatse.
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by moot 13y ago
http://www.4chan.org/news?all#39 They essentially suspended 4chan's original .net domain without warning, didn't notify me, then sent me in circles trying to get it back. At the time you couldn't e-mail or ca
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by moot 13y ago
Bummer. GoDaddy is easily the worst company I've had to deal with in over a decade of running 4chan. Godspeed to the MediaTemple guys!
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by moot 13y ago
If only 4chan had a POST API.
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by moot 13y ago
Updating Chrome just now caused my Cookie Clicker tab to wonk out, leading me to believe the update had broken it. It was almost the worst day of my life.
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by moot 13y ago
I'm amused by the user being more offended by the choice of search engine than the crapware itself.
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by moot 13y ago
We've been working on DrawQuest for the past year: http://www.drawquest.com More info, in case you're curious: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/8/3942110/drawquest-for-ipad-... Same c

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