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Not quite. It's first a search engine, so I index latest HN posts and a few other sources. There's then an algorithm that classifies new feeds as either "good" (personal blog, litt…

Great ideas, will do!

Thanks! I actually read your note on `use Cache-Control max-age HTTP headers for a "do not poll again before" time: savings of 10x or much more are likely if the feed server is set…

Hi HN! This is a personal project I finally got round to completing and shipping. It’s a simple feed of articles written by real people with interesting things to say. I wanted to …

Yea. Though, GA does (at least) two things: analyzes your own data, and, uses the data they collect from all their other sites to improve your experience via better bot detection, …

Yea, I think we're saying the same thing. Ultimately both the best choice (for privacy, performance etc.) and the one that's most likely (given adblockers and and ever increasing p…

totally

Server-side tracking has been around for a while (indeed this article is dated Nov 15, 2020; and of course, you could argue simply parsing your Apache/nginx logs to get visitor sta…

Cool idea

Hey, first up really amazing work you’re doing, hugely inspiring for us! Thank you. Whilst our focus has been delivering a consumer layer on top of all this data, yea, very open to…

DGraph and elasticsearch with some redis caching. Yea, a version of pagerank is coming soon! Love any other ideas...

Interesting thanks!

Yep basically - looking at the network of grants (who funds who), people (who works where over their careers), social media and news (who’s referenced or cited alongside whom) and …

We’re building a graph of this same underlying data at https://alma.app (with a lot of enrichments) to help people discover and donate to nonprofits. E.g. here’s Stanford: https://…

Yea can totally work - it gets at a lot in the zeitgeist in tech recently. I left Airbnb and started https://alma.app for similar reasons. We help companies with strong social miss…

ALMA | front end (js) | Washington DC | fulltime | onsite We're hiring our second engineer to focus on our front end site and apps. We're a seed funded startup helping make philant…

Recently left Airbnb to start a new company in Washington DC. I'm reminded of my previous experience starting a company in London. As soon as we had success (exit) we moved to SF. …

Apache ZooKeeper and the Fallacies of Distributed Computing There is no pixie dust that will magically overcome inherent distributed systems limitations. ZooKeeper simplifies the p…