alt Hacker NewsAuthor here. Woke up in today to see this on the front page, thank you to the person who submitted it! Initially, my biggest fear was the HN "Hug of Death" taking it down. Happily, Cloudflare's edge caching absorbed 19.24 GB of bandwidth in a few hours with a 98.5% cache hit ratio, so the origin server barely noticed.
The discussions here about DNS-level blocking and Pi-hole are spot on. It's interesting that the burden of a clean reading experience is slowly being offloaded to the user's network stack.
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Out of curiosity, do you have (and want to share) stats about requests per second? It's always nice to know these things for future reference.
No worries if not :)
Just wanted to say that article is so much deeper than it seems from the title, and also beautifully written. It was a great read!
I have done minor experiments with disabling javascript, it works most publications are far more readable with javascript disabled, you miss carousels and some interactive elements but overall a much better experience.
Can you add to clean reading experience by exchanging the unreadable font (Outfit Thin) with one that is readable?