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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.

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24mentions?
12HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2012

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.

The author on HN?

josephscott · 3,816 karma · member since 2011

Joseph Scott | https://josephscott.org/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /archives/2009/01/how-much-does-one-terabyte-of-bandwidth-cost/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-27
  2. /
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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?”
  2. Submitted Is Facebook Planning a Move to ARM Based Servers? as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  3. Yeah, 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”
  4. Submitted Timing Details with cURL as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  5. > 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/

    Comment linking /

    on “Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures”
  6. Submitted Ttfb-Curl as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. >> "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?”
  8. Submitted Deploying is the new Compiling as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Some 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”
  10. Submitted Awkward Moment For Google And Feedly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. https://josephscott.org/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  12. Submitted Stateless CSRF Tokens as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Wpcomfs – A WordPress.com Filesystem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Twitter now inserting ads into your timeline as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted PuSHPress: A PubSubHubbub Plugin For WordPress | Joseph Scott as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Timing Details with `curl` as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Facebook JavaScript Console Warning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Sharing Disabled on Google Docs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted 3D Depot as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Automatically Loading a Gravatar Image Based on Form Field Input as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The Joy of Deploy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Slow Hashing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Why PHP Strings Equal Zero as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Pressfs – A WordPress Filesystem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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