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Joseph Scott
Personal blog · josephscott.org · on HN as josephscottprogrammingweb
Joseph Scott's personal blog at josephscott.org covers programming and web. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joseph Scott's posts on bandwidth and hosting costs and on user-agent sniffing, mostly as data or background for their own points. The comments do not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-terabyte-of-bandwidth-cost/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-27
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-08
What Hacker News says?
I'm willing to pay for usage, sure. And I'll pay for the physical plant to my house too. BUT (and this is a big but) I'm only willing to do so at reasonable prices. You want me to pay for the physical plant? OK I can deal. The phone company can provide me with a pair of wires from my house to their POP for about $15. I might pay $20 since coax is different than UTP, but that's about it. You want me to pay per bit? G…
Comment linking /archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-terabyte-of-bandwidth-cost/
on “Level3 is without peer, now what to do?”Submitted Is Facebook Planning a Move to ARM Based Servers? as a story · 27 points
HN discussionYeah, you're probably right. Am not seeing any reasonable references to it in a quick search. http://www.google.com/notaurl - is also served via sffe. http://josephscott.org/archives/2010/11/user-agent-sniffing-... - as are the js libraries they serve. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2280319 - @dmaz seems to think it's google's static resource server.
Comment linking /archives/2010/11/user-agent-sniffing-at-google-libraries-cdn/
on “Google humans.txt”Submitted Timing Details with cURL as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> it could be as flimsy as they were pacing nervously while black Judging by the picture on the poster's website, I doubt being black had much to do with it: https://josephscott.org/
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on “Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures”Submitted Ttfb-Curl as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>> "and the bandwidth is at a great price." http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-te... * Layered Tech: $169 (2 TB/month) * The Planet: $149 (1.5 TB/month) * Superb Hosting: $119 (2 TB/month) * Hostway: $99 (2 TB/month) * Server Beach: $75 (1.2 TB/month) * Cari.net: $60 (1.3 TB/month) * Amazon EC2: $244.40 So I disagree the bandwidth is at a great price. I think it's ridiculously expensive. Maybe…
Comment linking /archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-terabyte-of-bandwidth-cost/
on “Reddit costs $33k/month to operate?”Submitted Deploying is the new Compiling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome old links on the cost of terabytes of bandwidth http://josephscott.org/archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-te...
Comment linking /archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-terabyte-of-bandwidth-cost/
on “Machine Learning as a Service”Submitted Awkward Moment For Google And Feedly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://josephscott.org/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Stateless CSRF Tokens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wpcomfs – A WordPress.com Filesystem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter now inserting ads into your timeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PuSHPress: A PubSubHubbub Plugin For WordPress | Joseph Scott as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timing Details with `curl` as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook JavaScript Console Warning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing Disabled on Google Docs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3D Depot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically Loading a Gravatar Image Based on Form Field Input as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Joy of Deploy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slow Hashing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why PHP Strings Equal Zero as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pressfs – A WordPress Filesystem as a story · 1 points
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