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My Hacker News 15 minutes of fame: the numbers

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So on Feb 25th my Do Not Donate-page was featured on Hacker News and that obviously brought some extra page-views.

Here are some more numbers for that memorable day;

  • Most popular pages:
    1. Do not donate: 10 013
    2. Homepage/ archives: 1 108
    3. about:futtta: 235
  • Referrers:
    1. Hacker News 7 978
    2. Facebook 112
    3. Search Engines 84
  • Outgoing links:
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders 959
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI#List 809
    3. https://profiles.wordpress.org/futtta 596
    4. https://www.kiva.org 87

And my server? Even at the busiest time (around 10-11 AM UTC+1) it quietly hummed along with a 0.11 system load 🙂

I Am A Cyclist, And I Am Here To Fuck You Up

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I Am A Cyclist, And I Am Here To Fuck You Up

It is morning. You are slow-rolling off the exit ramp, nearing the end of the long-ass commute from your suburban enclave. You have seen the rise of the city grow larger and larger in your windshield as you crawled through sixteen miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic. You foolishly believed that, now that you are in the city, your hellish morning drive is coming to an end.
Just then! I emerge from nowhere to whirr past you at twenty-two fucking miles per hour, passing twelve carlengths to the stoplight that has kept you prisoner for three cycles of green-yellow-red. The second the light says go, I am GOING, flying, leaving your sensible, American, normal vehicle in my dust.