Rachel's posts would be so much more useful if she would just say what she meant, instead of twisting everything into knots to find a way to say it backwards so she can be sarcastic and condescending while doing it.
I'm sure there's some useful information in here, but it's not worth digging through the patronization to find it.
Cloudflare's business lost them over $100 million last year alone. The way they operate right now is not a viable business, and we have no idea what they will change when they need to become one.
You really shouldn't act so condescending when you clearly don't even have a solid understanding of the basics yourself. That's a perfectly reasonable query that would run in less than a millisecond on a large database as long as it's been indexed correctly. There's nothing sloppy about it at all.
And now the HN mods have flagged this comment as off-topic, which causes it to be collapsed by default for all viewers of this thread. Everyone needs to specifically click the [+X] on it to even be able to read it.
Regardless of that, it seems like you're upset because of some mistaken expectations of what HN is for. It's not trying to be a "general purpose" site where you should expect to be able to discuss any and all topics. It has a pretty narrow focus, and users tend to aggressively flag posts about anything without a clear connection to the set of subjects that they feel "belong" here.
You shouldn't try to treat HN as a place where you'll be able to find general news about the world or discuss anything in particular, no matter how important you feel it is. It's a good site for its particular niche, but you're going to end up with a myopic view if you aren't also using other sites too.
If this site starts getting any traction, you're going to get destroyed by lawyers and copyright infringement claims, so I hope you're prepared for that. outline.com does basically the same thing, but they've had to exclude most of the major sites from working through it now.
Outline even seems to make it difficult to find any way to identify/contact them, but it only took me a couple of minutes to find the identity and location (inside the US = easy target) of who's behind Trim. Seriously, talk to an IP lawyer before you continue trying to promote this. You can't just copy other people's writing onto your own site.
It's also suspicious that the page's title says $100 Million, and the headline says $75 Million. A bunch of the meta tags also say "$100" (without any "million").
Proof seems necessary when they obviously changed how much money they were saying they had by $25 million.
I hate this pervasive attitude that paywalls are some sort of annoyance that sites just "hastily slap on" for no reason. They do it because the subscription is how they make money, so that they can pay people to write all those articles that you want to read.
Thousands of us pay for the subscriptions that enabled those articles to be written, while others complain about how annoying it is that they can't read them too. If you find that there are a lot of articles from a site you want to read but can't because of the paywall, that should be a hint that it's probably worth paying for.
Most of the major sites' subscriptions are very affordable, and they can only continue producing that content because some of us are willing to pay for it. Paywalls seem more common now because the old model of giving everything away for free doesn't work.
A comment like this being upvoted and responsible for a large portion of the "discussion" on the language creator's goddamn retirement announcement makes me embarrassed for this community. Keep the pointless bickering over programming language superiority somewhere else.
I'm sure there's some useful information in here, but it's not worth digging through the patronization to find it.