Most cited

Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 74 posts.

Web & Frontend
2022
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How “See a Satellite Tonight” Works

See A Satellite Tonight is my most successful side project so far, with 5 million users since launch in 2019. It's been entirely a solo project, and I've used it as a proving ground for a bunch of tech that I wanted to learn. It took dozens of APIs and services to put together the experience I wanted: The front page…

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Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)

I've seen all these studies that show how a 100ms improvement in page load time has a significant effect on page views, conversion rate, etc., but I'd never actually tried to optimize my site. This blog is a static Octopress site, hosted on GitHub Pages. Static sites are supposed to be fast, and GitHub Pages uses…