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Davidlohr Bueso
Personal blog · blog.stgolabs.netsystemsprogramming
Davidlohr Bueso's personal blog at blog.stgolabs.net covers systems and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments on this blog centre on its JavaScript-rendered pages, which can show blank, and they link plain-HTML workarounds. The linked posts cover Linux kernel performance, such as v4.15 changes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
If the issue is exploring new websites posted to sites like HN, then occassionally you do see these framework driven client-side rendered designs (let's call them "blank pages"). I agree it is depressing to see when people post blank pages to HN, but I think it is still a small minority. A list of those sites is not pointless; a user could use it for whitelisting. Even if not actively whitelisting, does it make sens…
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on “Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio”Submitted Linux v4.15: Performance Goodies as a story · 179 points
HN discussionIf a website makes heavy use of a JS framework like Vue/React/Angular and does client-side rendering as opposed to server-side rendering, as an increasing number of sites do, then you run into issues. This isn't all that uncommon when checking out websites here on HN, both as submissions and within comments. I don't keep a running list of sites I'm not able to visit as that's a rather pointless list to maintain. I d…
Comment linking /2018/03/linux-v415-performance-goodies.html
on “Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio”Submitted Scalability of futex hash table collisions in the linux kernel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is an easier method: just append AJAX crawling token to the query string: http://blog.stgolabs.net/2018/03/linux-v415-performance-good...
Comment linking /2018/03/linux-v415-performance-goodies.html?_escaped_fragment_=
on “Linux v4.15: Performance Goodies”Link with plain readable HTML: http://blog.stgolabs.net/2018/03/linux-v415-performance-good... This should work on any blogger page. Source: deprecate Google technology https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... This is crazy. They serve light HTML page for robots and a slow loading JS app for humans. And if an exception occurs inside their app humans get a blank page.
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on “Linux v4.15: Performance Goodies”