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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-12-02 18:36:54 UTC to 2020-04-20 17:41:16 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012019-12-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 22019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 102020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 20

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 22019-12-02 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 92019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 162019-12-16 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 232019-12-23 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 302019-12-30 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 62020-01-06 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 132020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 202020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 272020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 32020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 102020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 172020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 242020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 92020-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 162020-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232020-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302020-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 62020-04-06 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 132020-04-13 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 202020-04-20 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-27 00:00:00 UTC101

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> That was exactly my point. We are currently seeing the whole thing looping. If Gatsby is exactly the format you like, what's the problem? The fact that it uses React as a dependency? Because... it uses 'npm', the worst package manager of all history? > But let's face it, for most of the websites, you don't need those tools. I'm pretty sure asking this is against the guidelines, but I just can't resist - have you ever worked with jQuery/vanilla JS and React? If you ever, ever worked with them, one can easily see that the component model React provides gives a great productivity boost. For example, consider this[0] code from the old version of this blog: it defines a 'Code' component that allows live previews of JS code. It would be super tedious to do that every time you embed a JS example in your post. > It's even worst most of the time
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regarding browser performances, accessibility , SEO, navigation. No, it isn't. Gatsby is a 'static site generator', with most of the advantages and disadvantages that they provide. Navigation is faster, not slower if you've turned on JS (due to progressive enhancement) and accessibility has nothing to do with React - it's the matter of proper markup (which React can do pretty well). [0] https://github.com/joshwcomeau/blog/blob/master/src/componen...
In The Quest for the Perfect Dark Mode (Gatsby/React)

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