The Alexa graph above only shows the ycombinator.com domain, but most of the traffic to the domain is HN. Also HN is visible on several other domains like hackerne.ws, which isn’t counted in the above graph, so it’s probably already passed Slashdot. Footnote: This post was something more political re comment scores. But I decided I […]
May 28, 2011 | Startups | No comments
This is the OK-GLI, part of the Soviet Shuttle Buran program, the largest and most expensive space program in the history of the Soviet Union. The OK-GLI completed 25 test flights between 1985 and 1988 before being retired. The OK-GLI was powered by four AL-31 jet engines with the fuel tank in the cargo bay. […]
The smartest most helpful people hang out there. Thanks for the awesome theme Lucian!
May 28, 2011 | Hacker News, Themes | No comments
At the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, a Russian medical officer asked the Olympic Committee whether the use of insulin was restricted to athletes who are insulin dependent diabetics. The incident drew attention to insulin and the IOC were swift to ban it as a performance enhancing drug. I recently posted a question on […]
It’s been a year long break from blogging and getting back to writing and getting a so many new visitors this soon is cool. [Thanks HN!] This blog runs on the smallest available Linode 512 instance for $20/month. It runs several sites including family blogs and hobby sites. I run nginx on the front end […]
May 28, 2011 | Economics, Innovation, lighttpd, Nginx, Startups | No comments
Clarence from Panabee pinged me a few minutes ago mentioning Panabee.com. I hadn’t heard of it and along with nxdom.com I’m going to add it to my toolkit to brainstorm available domain names. My attitude re names these days fluctates between the-name-is-everything and back to sanity. A week ago I was obsessed with the domain […]
May 27, 2011 | Startup Hacks, Startups, Trademark | No comments
This quote, which went viral 2 months ago and that Steinbeck probably never said, has stuck with me: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ~Maybe not Steinbeck, but it’s cool and it’s true. As temporarily embarrassed millionaire programmers I feel we sometimes […]
May 27, 2011 | Innovation, Inspiration, Printing Money, Startups | 13 comments
This one is short and sweet. A new domain recently wasn’t getting any SEO traffic after 2 months. As soon as the registration was made non-private i.e. we removed the domainsByProxy mask on who owns the domain, it started getting traffic and has been growing ever since. Correlation does not equal causation, but it does […]
May 26, 2011 | SEO | 2 comments
A hobby site I have has around 300,000 pages indexed and good pagerank. It gets a fair amount of SEO traffic which has been growing. The rate at which Google indexes the site has been steadily climbing and is now indexing at around 2 to 3 pages per second. I added a new page on […]
May 25, 2011 | SEO | 1 comment
The last two scifi novels I’ve read coincidentally both had a machine that can upload several years of education to your brain in a matter of hours. I was ruminating on what the effect would be on education if we invented the instant-edu machine today. Imagine you could instant-edu the Harvard Business School syllabus in a few […]
May 25, 2011 | Economics | No comments