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Harrison Broadbent
Personal blog · harrisonbroadbent.com/blog · on HN as hbroadbentprogrammingweb
Harrison Broadbent's personal blog at harrisonbroadbent.com covers programming and web. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Anatomy of a Hacker News traffic spike”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this blog's estimates of Hacker News traffic, such as about 20k daily page views with a peak of 2k per hour, when discussing bandwidth and server load for static sites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal website.
Most-linked posts?
- Anatomy of a Hacker News traffic spike3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-29
What Hacker News says?
Hey! Actually that is possible using the <datalist> element. If you're interested, I wrote a bit more about it here: https://harrisonbroadbent.com/blog/cool-native-html-elements...
Comment linking /blog/cool-native-html-elements/
on “The <select> element can now be customized with CSS”Submitted Cool native HTML elements you should already be using as a story · 75 points
HN discussionHN generates ~20k page views over the course of a day with a peak of 2k/h: https://harrisonbroadbent.com/blog/hacker-news-traffic-spike... . At ~1MB per page load - not sure how accurate this is, I don't think it fully loaded - this static blogpost requires 0.55MB/s to meet demand. An original raspberry pi B (10mpbs ethernet) on the average french mobile internet connection (8mbps) provides double that. I don't mean…
Comment linking /blog/hacker-news-traffic-spike-anatomy/
on “Linux Pipes Are Slow”Submitted Blogging with Ruby, Middleman and Tailwind CSS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionEven caching is normally unnecessary. Honestly, HN front page traffic isn’t much. For most, it probably peaks at about one page load¹ per second², and if your web server software can’t cope with that, it’s bad . Even if your site uses PHP and MySQL and queries the database to handle every request, hopefully static resources bypass all that and are served straight from disk. CPU and memory usage will be negligible, a…
Comment linking /blog/hacker-news-traffic-spike-anatomy/
on “Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server”Submitted Anatomy of a Hacker News traffic spike as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks for posting OP! (I'm the template author) I've used Middleman for years to build my personal site( https://harrisonbroadbent.com ) and other blogs( https://dumbph.com ). I figured it was time I give back to the community; I hope a few of you find this template useful! Middleman's heyday has long passed, but the tech is still solid and stable. I'm 7+ years into running my personal site with it, and I'm hoping…
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on “A Ruby, Middleman and TailwindCSS blog template”Submitted SaaS Fonts Worth Trying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA few years ago I built some teeny tiny solar powered electronic satellites - https://harrisonbroadbent.com/electronics/tinysat (Inspired by mohit bhoite who does stuff like this... Just 1000x better)
Comment linking /electronics/tinysat
on “Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?”Submitted A tooltip with plain HTML and Tailwind CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://harrisonbroadbent.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Redirect www. URLs to non-www with Cloudflare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Netlify, Hello Cloudflare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handy localStorage helpers for Chrome extensions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to add custom fonts in Tailwind CSS v4 (and v3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A native Tailwind CSS star rating input as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Tailwind CSS in a Chrome Extension as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Toast Notifications using plain JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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