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Brant Tedeschi

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Brant Tedeschi's personal blog at x-pose.org covers startups and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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2011–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in CloudFlare threads as supporting material, with posts on CloudFlare customer testimonies, response-time tests, and a Google PageSpeed service review. Commenters cite them as sources rather than praising the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nothing new, this is all just repackaging. This is all just basic CDN proxy tech all providers (including CF) had for years. Giving it a cool name, dose not make it new or exiting. Here are some helpful links - CF customer testimonies: http://x-pose.org/2012/02/speed-up-your-site-disable-cloudfl... http://www.husdal.com/2011/07/01/incapsula-versus-cloudflare...

    Comment linking /2012/02/speed-up-your-site-disable-cloudflare/

    on “Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun”
  2. Submitted Google PageSpeed Service Reviewed as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. Awesome thread. I recently made a post about startup costs and what services I use. I even provide a cost breakdown for each one, bringing my grand total monthly bill to $295. Hopefully its useful to some. http://x-pose.org/2011/10/the-cost-of-running-a-boot-strappe...

    Comment linking /2011/10/the-cost-of-running-a-boot-strapped-startup/

    on “Online services our startup subscribes to”
  4. Submitted Your Hate for Google is Misguided as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. I don't really understand Cloudflare's problems with latency. When using FULL CDN+Optimizations the entire site's HTML and assets should be cached and served super fast via cloudflare. That is the best case scenario for them to speed up load times. But based on my testing, Cloudflare adds more latency to response times even in a best case scenario of full caching. However, when I do the same exact type of optimizati…

    Comment linking /category/cloudflare/

    on “Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.”
  6. Submitted The best start-ups are companies you've never heard of as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. FYI2: http://www.x-pose.org/2012/12/google-pagespeed-service-revie...

    Comment linking /2012/12/google-pagespeed-service-review/

    on “Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.”
  8. Submitted About the AI Apocalypse as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. FYI: http://www.x-pose.org/2012/06/cloudflare-response-times-are-...

    Comment linking /2012/06/cloudflare-response-times-are-getting-worse

    on “Does CloudFlare really speed up your site? Tests say not really.”
  10. Submitted Screw Facebook Paper. Create Personal Wikis. as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. I linked to what GoogleBot thinks of Cloudflare. http://x-pose.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/topiama-googleb... Cloudflare response times to the far left and PageSpeed response times to the far right. I'm not sure what else to say.

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2012/12/topiama-googlebot.png

    on “Google PageSpeed Service Reviewed”
  12. Submitted Why I'm Sticking with Google Chrome as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Google Analytics Tracking Change on March 20th? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Facebook’s First Premium Feature: Profile Wiki’s as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Cost of Running a Startup can get out of control as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted CloudFlare response times are getting worse as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Do my coding habits match yours? A look at my Github punch card. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Windows 8 is better than you think as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Your Search Engine Sucks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted As the web gets smarter, your privacy will continue to decrease over time as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The Internet is our playground. We are its users. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Is it hard to be use logic? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Fix the WordPress SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS Bug as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted I switched from Intercom to Crisp and will save $5000 annually and gain features as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Installing/Configuring the Latest WAMP Stack under Windows 7+ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted I run a bootstrapped Fantasy Sports Startup, here are my monthly expenses as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Compared the top Fantasy News sites to find out if any of them care about speed as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Google can't create accurate Instant Preview screengrabs for Twitter or Gawker. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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