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Steven Yue

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Steven Yue writes Tech Notes from Steven, a personal blog at stevenyue.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts cover Linode vs DigitalOcean performance and Ruby's DateTime versus Time. The comments only link to or cite them and do not judge the writing.

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.

Steven Yue’s thoughts on computer programming and software development

What Hacker News says?

  1. Check these out: http://stevenyue.com/2013/04/15/linode-vs-digital-ocean-perf... http://bigjocker.com/wordpress/?p=121

    Comment linking /2013/04/15/linode-vs-digital-ocean-performance-benchmarks/

    on “The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean”
  2. Submitted Exploring Python Task Queue Libraries with Load Test as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. The only reason to use Time is for a marginal performance improvement. And it saves you typing four extra characters. Other than that, Time really sucks. http://stevenyue.com/2013/03/23/date-time-datetime-in-ruby-a...

    Comment linking /2013/03/23/date-time-datetime-in-ruby-and-rails/

    on “When should you use DateTime and when should you use Time?”
  4. Submitted SQL queries with temporary table vs. where in as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Convert IP Address for Amazon Redshift as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted From Ruby’s Grape to Martini in Go for Building Web API Server as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Designing for Intelligence: Rethinking APIs, Databases, and Interfaces as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Tracking SQL queries in Rails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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