Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job? 4 years agowe should not use foreign keysNot using foreign key constraints is a good idea. Occasionally. Very occasionally. 0ThreadHN
Evidence that life flashes before the eyes upon death 4 years agoLife flashes before the eyes upon death. In real time. 0ThreadHN
Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor to WebP Image Format 6 years agoPNG is now actually the most used format on the web: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/image_format significantly more popular than GIF.BTW, WebP is used by 0.4% of all websites. 0ThreadHN
This Website Is Killing the Planet 6 years agoI wonder what their carbon badges add to a site's footprint. Seems a bit counterproductive. 0ThreadHN
The Status of HTTP/3 7 years agoAccording to W3Techs, 2.4% of the top 10m sites and 7.1% of the top 1k sites support HTTP/3: https://w3techs.com/technologies/breakdown/ce-http3/ranking 0ThreadHN
Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud 11 years agoDebian still dominates the web server market, but Ubuntu is catching up there too: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all 0ThreadHN
Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter 13 years agoThat may be cheap, but once you see a little traffic spike coming from Hacker News, all you get is an "Error establishing a database connection." 0ThreadHN
WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines 13 years agoRight, it's not 3rd party, but it is included in the statistics that show 90% jQuery market share, and the argument was that the biggest websites are not represented there. 0ThreadHN
JavaScript libs usage change 2012: jQuery +11.7% Mootools -0.3% Prototype -0.6% 14 years agohttp://w3techs.com/faq 0ThreadHN