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Notes is a personal blog at notes.ericjiang.com about programming and data. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Heroku changing up dyno pricing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on moving between languages and platforms, such as Node.js to Go and Java to Go, and on Heroku pricing changes. Commenters use the posts as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Heroku changing up dyno pricing3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-03-30
- The emperor's new clothes were built with Node.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-06
- What concurrency in Node.js could have been2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-04
- Parallel Map in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-14
- /posts/7512 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-28
What Hacker News says?
It compiles down to JavaScript that you can then run on Node or the browser. I once wrote a big long rant about the mess that JS and Node have made trying to cope with async code and got tons of comments proposing X or Y library that would "fix" the issue. Not a single person mentioned StratifiedJS. I wonder if there was some history to it that prevented it from getting momentum.[0] [0] http://notes.ericjiang.com/po…
Comment linking /posts/791
on “What Color Is Your Function?”Submitted The emperor's new clothes were built with Node.js as a story · 91 points
HN discussionNot exactly what you're looking for, but it might help: http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/791
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on “From Node.js to Go”Submitted OpenStreetMap provider CloudMade shuts its doors on small users as a story · 58 points
HN discussionhttps://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/751 "PayPal and Wal-Mart have also had high-profile switches to Node.js. Of course, they’re comparing two completely different things to make Node.js look better. In these too-good-to-be-true stories, they’re switching from a gigantic enterprisey codebase to a Node.js app written from scratch. Is there any question that it wouldn’t have been faster? They could have switched to prett…
Comment linking /posts/751
on “One year after switching from Java to Go”Submitted Heroku changing up dyno pricing as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI tried to post this yesterday[0] and fell off the new stories list, but such is HN. Basically, they're nerfing their free tier by charging $7/month for a 24/7 running app. People wanting to run a free app may look at App Engine or AWS's one year free tier, or compare the price among other "cloud" and cloud-ish services. [0] http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
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on “Heroku Beta Pricing”Submitted Things Japanese people say about English as a story · 10 points
HN discussionLink doesn't work for me. From another source I found: Free – Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM. Hobby – Run a small app 24×7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM. Standard 1X, 2X: Build product…
Comment linking /posts/881
on “Heroku Beta Pricing”Submitted Parallel Map in JavaScript as a story · 7 points
HN discussion>1. Electron. Simply awesome - I copied 90 % of my app, changed Sequelize ORM to have it's storage to sqlite and boom. I have a webapp as a OS-packaged app. And your users get to enjoy awful performance and insane resource usage for their app. How generous of you. Also, the hate for NodeJS is because Javascript is a terrible language, no matter how many things you put on it (TypeScript, Babel, etc.). It's also becau…
Comment linking /posts/751
on “What the web platform can learn from Node.js: The Darwinism of small modules”Submitted NFTs are tearing the art community apart as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThey have new pricing coming soon that includes new dynos but they're not getting any cheaper - and ditching 24/7 free dynos. http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
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on “Build and Deploy Heroku Apps with Docker”Submitted What concurrency in Node.js could have been as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYep, I can also confirm that the UC-Logic devices are supported by the wizardpen driver on Linux. I wrote up some instructions a long time ago on getting it to work[1], and I'm sure there are more up-to-date instructions now. The USB protocol is almost trivial to figure out without documentation, and the wizardpen driver has been around for a long time. [1] http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/45
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on “The Yiynova MSP19U Cintiq Alternative Swings for the Fences”Submitted Show HN: Combine Multiple Internet Connections Into One as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd Node evolved much later than the other stable frameworks. I was going to use NodeJS in 2014 for a startup, but after evaluating the absolute nightmare of ways you could do async programming in JavaScript, I went with Python and Tornado, which was a callback-free, clean way of programming. It was years ahead of JavaScript in that regard, so you were ahead of the curve if you were not jailed in the JS world. What…
Comment linking /posts/751
on “Why Go and Not Rust? (2019)”Submitted Parallel map in Javascript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look back at the Argus C44 rangefinder camera as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things even veteran developers do as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Arrow Endianness: How Gnome got sorting backwards (2012) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have you ever been computer illiterate? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write your own application launcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Krita ready for HDR painting? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1850s Maps of San Francisco vs. Today as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The emperor’s new clothes were built with Node.js (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raise Your Hand and Ask as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We don't remember your startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Chinese (well enough to order from the menu) using MTurk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 100% Unbreakable Encryption Is Achievable as a story · 1 points
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