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Aggressively Paraphrasing Me
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Aggressively Paraphrasing Me is a personal blog at aggressivelyparaphrasing.me about ai and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts describe an investigation of Firefox loading favicons several times per tab, which wastes bandwidth and battery. One comment, from someone saying they are the author, mentions it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My name is Mark and I have some thoughts.
What Hacker News says?
Oh hey, I wrote that last issue linked! What crazy Deja vu. Here’s me discovering the issue that led me to find some wild behavior. Basically Firefox loaded favicons 4x the number of tabs opened to that website. It would do this every time I opened or closed any tab. https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2022/12/12/why-does-my-l... It was resolved a while back so maybe it’s similar symptoms but different root cause, o…
Comment linking /2022/12/12/why-does-my-low-traffic-wordpress-blog-http-503-service-unavailable-when-i-click-around-using-firefox-on-iphone/
on “How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins”Submitted Organize your Slack channels by "How Often", not "What" as a story · 108 points
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