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I now feel very out of touch as I've never heard of Hacker News
Anders | 28.10.25 - 12:49 p.m. | #
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I frequent both and think the common denominator is a very high signal-to-noise ratio. Some very high quality, data-driven posts on both sites.
Mike W | 28.10.25 - 4:55 p.m. | #
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Hacker News maybe originated with Jim?
Ian | 28.10.25 - 5:34 p.m. | #
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I hope you underestimate the proportion of those new visitors who will come back, because they came for the quality of your writing not just the attraction of the subject matter. I said on that post at the time that it deserved a wider audience, and I’m glad it found it.
Radinden | 28.10.25 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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I'd never looked at Hacker news before. On my laptop ( just in case there's a more funky app ) it looks proper old school internet.
ap | 28.10.25 - 7:58 p.m. | #
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I was just wondering whether your tracker counts different people or simply visits?
I came on the website three times on Sunday.
The first I thought ‘oh yes, I’d like to read this, but gosh all those boxes, too long to take in just now’
The second time, later on, I thought ‘yes this is exactly the sort of thing one wants on a cold wet Sunday afternoon’ but still got distracted
The third time I went through properly, trying to remember things.
It felt like the sort of post that the average person would need to come back to more than once.
dg writes: My tracker tells me only 2% of Sunday's visitors came back more than once.
LB | 28.10.25 - 8:45 p.m. | #
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Do the busiest days correlated with the most viewed posts ever, or is there something in the long tail that's attracted more people over time?
martin | 29.10.25 - 6:33 a.m. | #
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I can't tell what the long-term views are for individual posts, but I suspect Where to sit on a Crossrail train has accrued the most over the last three years.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.10.25 - 7:20 a.m. | #
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Never let it be said that this blog has peaked!
Hadders | 29.10.25 - 7:59 a.m. | #
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Reminded by that link to the History trees post - the Redwood at the main entrance to the Olympic Park is gone, looking at Google Maps some time between May 2022 and April 2024. Really sad.
dg writes: One of the men chopping it down told me they intended to replace it. Hasn't happened though.
lockedintheattic | 29.10.25 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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A lot of us were really charmed when your Dad chimed in in the comments! For my part I've been following DG since around 2007, which I find to be a refuge from work and, often, a joyful dive into my youth to which few of my pals here in the US can relate.
Adam B. | 29.10.25 - 1:42 p.m. | #
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I read the link to 'Dylan painting ' post with great interest. I'm a huge Dylan fan and wondered if you ever received any confirmation that it might have been your photo?
dg writes: follow-up post
Anyoldname | 29.10.25 - 7:23 p.m. | #
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Re. the History Tree. I have put in an FOI request.
lockedintheattic | 30.10.25 - 10:59 a.m. | #
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