If you could summarize, what are the key takeaways to create awesome, fast and minimal sites like this lite CNN?
Text-only CNN
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#182I was trying to figure out what was different about this convolutionao neural network for about 60 seconds.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few reasons: * To overcome government censorship and surveillance. * To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
>To overcome government censorship and surveillance. But the site isn't being censored? Also https won't stop the government from knowing that you connected to those servers. I agree that we want to avoid censorship and surveillance in general, but it really doesn't seem relevant here. >To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts. Is your ISP actually doing that to you right now? Or is that jus…
I can't remember which country it was, but it was either a Vodaphone or O2 sim which would inject their little banner at the top of websites that weren't HTTPS. It was super annoying, especially seeing it on my own site!
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#184This is what the world needs. Seriously, I hate this trend to bloat up websites with the rage of a thousand suns. There is absolutely no value, but it increases bandwith usage, load times and CPU/RAM usage. News websites having "fancy, modern" websites actually make me think less of them. Fuck this web-bloat shit. The web is broken.
death to auto-playing video always and forever... CNN's site is especially bad about that, as I've experienced cases where I stop the "big" video at the top of the page and scroll down, only to have it start back up again when it moves to the sidebar.
That is SO annoying. When it happens I don't even read the article anymore, I just rage close the tab.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to be using the same CDN with the same hostnames as regular CNN, has their logos, their content, looks theirs.
Then why is it not on a subdomain of cnn.com? Anyone could copy their logo and their content.
Because it's a separate site? I have no idea. It takes 30 seconds to convince yourself it's theirs, though, so I'm not sure what you're asking me.
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#186This is what the world needs. Seriously, I hate this trend to bloat up websites with the rage of a thousand suns. There is absolutely no value, but it increases bandwith usage, load times and CPU/RAM usage. News websites having "fancy, modern" websites actually make me think less of them. Fuck this web-bloat shit. The web is broken.
No value to the user, but all that bloat allows for analytics and tracking for more ad $ and the images make emotional manipulation easier to get more clicks. Not to mention that 99.9% of people don't care or don't even know what bandwidth, CPU, or RAM are.
> 99.9% of people don't care or don't even know what bandwidth
...but they sure know what data rates are. Not that a website is the root of their data problems of course
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#187This is what the world needs. Seriously, I hate this trend to bloat up websites with the rage of a thousand suns. There is absolutely no value, but it increases bandwith usage, load times and CPU/RAM usage. News websites having "fancy, modern" websites actually make me think less of them. Fuck this web-bloat shit. The web is broken.
"This is what the world needs." maybe the world needed back in 1983 ted turner never to start up 24/7 news? Didn't and doesn't human DNA jive better with less news, less often?
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#188Also, NPR has had a text only site for ages http://thin.npr.org
When you load an article it shows only the first sentence and then
Read More ... ( 19213 bytes )
Brilliant!
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#189Someone pointed out below, but in a comment way down in the thread, but CNN is actually who's behind this:
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/906821174805630976
I'm not sure if the reason behind this is because of possible weak phone connections or that the hurricane is a good way to promote the text only site, but either way, huge shoutout to CNN for going forward with this themselves.
I've thought for a while about scraping news sites to just show their text, or something like classifying articles based on their subjects from different ones. On this front, they did it first.
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#190You know hacker news people live in a world of their own when a post regarding stripped down Cable News Network website gets more up votes than all the posts on convolutional neural networks combined
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=convolut&sort=byPopularity&pre...