Hacker News Hits

Here be posts I’ve written that’ve hit Hacker News and garnered 100+ points or comments. Stats:

• 20 total posts
• 11,311 total points (average: 566)
• 5,199 total comments (average: 260 )

• Sanding UI 1,300 points, 400 comments
• “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” 919 points, 513 comments
• You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It 887 points, 444 comments
• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help 846 points, 333 comments
• What “Work” Looks Like 788 points, 226 comments
• Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables 784 points, 465 comments
• canistilluse.com 555 points, 361 comments
• Inspecting Web Views in macOS 536 points, 140 comments
• Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency 470 points, 241 comments
• Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious 466 points, 132 comments
• Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect 441 points, 238 comments
• HTML Web Components 440 points, 239 comments
• The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom 432 points, 298 comments
• Examples of Great URL Design 415 points, 157 comments
• Deno is Webby (pt. 2) 407 points, 206 comments
• The Mac App Flea Market 401 points, 151 comments
• The AI Aesthetic 378 points, 176 comments
• The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites 331 points, 147 comments
• How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy 303 points, 243 comments
• The Art of Knowing When to Quit 212 points, 89 comments

“If you don’t get thrashed on whatever the HackerNews of the era is, you haven’t blogged enough.” — Dave Rupert