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Dirac Delta: Hacker News

Every day, about 200 readers peruse 300 pages, but sometimes this happens:

Softsolder vs Hacker News - 2025-10-24
Softsolder vs Hacker News – 2025-10-24

Unlike AI or robot scrapers, this spike came from actual humans reading a note on Hacker News.

I was surprised at how much traffic came from the various Referrers based on Hacker News.

Here today, gone tomorrow …

Comments

2 responses to “Dirac Delta: Hacker News”

  1. Frans Avatar

    The new WordPress comment box confuses me. It captures Ctrl+A in odd ways.

    I was going to say something else, but I forget what it was. I don’t keep apprised via Hacker News, in any case. ;-)

    1. RCPete Avatar
      RCPete

      As people say on accordingtohoyt dot com, WordPress Delenda Est, or WPDE for short.

      Wasp blower, eh? They’ve gone dormant for the year, mostly.

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