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Cheers! That era of the internet was such a fun chunk of time. All the little design tricks and bite-sized approaches people shared… it was a lot of fun.

These little stories, though not my original intention with the post, are very lovely to read!

See, it all worked out!

That's been my biggest annoyance lately. Everyone's trying to AI these sorts of things, but for people who get a lot of these frequently, it's pretty easy to spot. Talk like a huma…

Really amusing to read this one. I did something similar for Qatar 2022 and got access to roster submission ( https://zachholman.com/posts/hacking-fifa ). To their credit they patc…

Happy and definitely gone, haha. Not my circus not my monkeys.

Hiiiiiii HN! Just launched something I've been working on for a bit: https://signed.com After early GitHub and GitLab, I started getting into angel investing. I've done a couple hu…

Me: Whoa, cool, my hometown is on atop Hacker News! Also me, reading further: Uh-oh. The chief of police also resigned today; wouldn't be shocked if this was part of the reasoning.…

Hah, no, that wasn't a thing at the company back then. 220k is large; not sure what snapshot of the page they were looking at at the time, but in any case "performance" in this con…

404s were designed for performance, as OP says here, but also to be as simple as possible. Part of the difficulty was info leakage; early on there was a lot of concern that a 403 w…

(fwiw, GitHub switched to Rails 3 sometime around 2011-2012 or so).

Amusing to read this and think back on GitHub's seed round ($100M). At the time we just had a small business account from Bank of America... going from relatively thin cushion in t…

I have like 7500 stars on my dotfiles over the last 15 years or so; it's definitely weird. It's kind of a different open source project entirely; the goal isn't really to make good…

Things were going quickly on the run-up to Rails moving over, but even so, Rails was pretty aggressive at jumping on GitHub when they did, and it was one of our first real "major" …

I'm a huge Newsroom sucker, but that one just felt weird. The whole "we used [clip] sarin" felt really drawn-out and kind of weird. On the other hand, my partner and I constantly s…

> FCP was outstanding in its time, but was neglected. I'm more of a casual when it comes to Final Cut Pro rather than a daily driver, but it does seem like the last year or two the…

Made me super happy to read that!

I built the last major update to GitHub Issues over a decade ago now, and I was... kind of hoping for more. Feels more like it's checkbox-driven development instead of sitting down…

When this comes on in the Big House you immediately feel like you want to run through a brick wall for the team.

Yes. It’s probably one of the most-watched games in NWSL this season. People who don’t even watch NWSL watched this game. I mean, hell, even if it were just another game I’d probab…

I discovered it literally late last night and was going to start reading it today. I’m not really sure what it’s all about yet, but the fact that it’s number one on HN today is mak…