Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by mmcclimon » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:26 PM UTC

Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time
blog.joewoods.dev

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by tjwds » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:39 PM UTC

Thanks for hugging my site to death! It's hosted on a $5 DO droplet and I'm honored to have this problem. https://archive.ph/AVbPV

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by eatonphil » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

tjwds wrote: post #2

Thanks for hugging my site to death! It's hosted on a $5 DO droplet and I'm honored to have this problem. https://archive.ph/AVbPV

Do you serve static files? Static file server on a $5 DO droplet should handle the HN front page.

There's also free tiers on many CDNs like Fastly/Cloudflare. Github Pages is also free.

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Post by andrewxdiamond » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

tjwds wrote: post #2

Thanks for hugging my site to death! It's hosted on a $5 DO droplet and I'm honored to have this problem. https://archive.ph/AVbPV

For simple static sites like this, sticking a default Cloudflare stack in front helps a lot

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by tjwds » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:47 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #3

tjwds wrote: post #2

Thanks for hugging my site to death! It's hosted on a $5 DO droplet and I'm honored to have this problem. https://archive.ph/AVbPV

Do you serve static files? Static file server on a $5 DO droplet should handle the HN front page. There's also free tiers on many CDNs like Fastly/Cloudflare. Github Pages is also free.

I used to use zola hosted on Github Pages, but I wanted to improve the publishing workflow, and WordPress was a good fit for that. (Notes on the migration here: https://blog.joewoods.dev/technology/technical-notes-on-migr...)

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Post by eatonphil » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:51 PM UTC

tjwds wrote: post #5

eatonphil wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you serve static files? Static file server on a $5 DO droplet should handle the HN front page. There's also free tiers on many CDNs like Fastly/Cloudflare. Github Pages is also free.

I used to use zola hosted on Github Pages, but I wanted to improve the publishing workflow, and WordPress was a good fit for that. (Notes on the migration here: https://blog.joewoods.dev/technology/technical-notes-on-migr... )

Check out this thread for recommendations on static site generator plugins on top of Wordpress. Best of both worlds for folks who want high-level publishing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396961

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Post by anonimou » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 10:53 PM UTC

tjwds wrote: post #2

Thanks for hugging my site to death! It's hosted on a $5 DO droplet and I'm honored to have this problem. https://archive.ph/AVbPV

Hey. Nice post.

I was thinking about this same problem for a couple of days. Another question I have is: do we have a higher number of top-level comments on a given number of months or not?

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Post by coip » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 11:00 PM UTC

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #4

tjwds wrote: post #2

Thanks for hugging my site to death! It's hosted on a $5 DO droplet and I'm honored to have this problem. https://archive.ph/AVbPV

For simple static sites like this, sticking a default Cloudflare stack in front helps a lot

you’d (I’d) think ~managed cdn serving an s3/blob origin would be a no brainer. Hell, GitHub pages even: BYODomain, + hosting/automation/cdn…

Where’s the free lunch in that line of thinking? which cases are a droplet better in?

Re: Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

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Post by coip » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

coip wrote: post #8

andrewxdiamond wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For simple static sites like this, sticking a default Cloudflare stack in front helps a lot

you’d (I’d) think ~managed cdn serving an s3/blob origin would be a no brainer. Hell, GitHub pages even: BYODomain, + hosting/automation/cdn… Where’s the free lunch in that line of thinking? which cases are a droplet better in?

(Now that I’ve tried to RTFA, it seems homie has a runtime dependence (db?) or something colocated on the host failing? OWASP, right? Having a resource limit reached maybe? Nextjs seems like a cool approach to manage partially ~runtime-dynamic systems like this/cms/etc)

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Post by kodah » Wed, Jun 08, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

I like this. I'd also love to see the venn diagram of "Who is Hiring?" top-level comments and a mix of the best and worst feedback about those companies and their hiring processes during that time. I want to see if companies are getting better or worse. I just wasted over a month with a company only to get feedback like, "The CTO wanted you to know the Bitcoin whitepaper more". Companies, as the market gets more competitive, are only doing shadier and shadier things with their time and communication.