HN-Proxy

Quick proxy for Hacker news (GZIP the data)

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What to know before exploring

What it is

Quick proxy for Hacker news (GZIP the data)

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-02-14 02:57:42 UTC to 2011-03-30 14:25:38 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Feb 14	2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC	2011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Feb 21	2011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC	2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 28	2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 7	2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-14 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Mar 14	2011-03-14 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 21	2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 28	2011-03-28 00:00:00 UTC	2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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metachris·Mar 30, 2011

I guess you are using HN-Proxy (https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy). Be careful with Google -- proxying sites might flag your site as spam (although I guess you're not going to drive a lot of traffic from Google anyway).

In Ask HN: How would you promote a new site that didn't get any notice?

mhusby·Mar 12, 2011

I build this for adding GZIP to HN for browsing on my mobile, but as a nice side effect it also does ssl https://quickhn.appspot.com/ It is just a VERY simple proxy running on Google App Engine, if you want to throw up your own the source is on github here https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy

In Ask PG: When will HN get https authentication?

mhusby·Feb 14, 2011Submission

Tell HN: GZIP for Hacker News

http://quickhn.appspot.com/ I got really tired of it taking forever to load HN when I was on EDGE so I took things into my own hands :-) Its just a simple proxy using google app engine, but it does gzip the pages. On a sample page with 103 comments the size went from 140.0K to 29.8K. All other features are functioning (submit new, upvoting, commenting). The source is on github so feel free to deploy your own: https://github.com/matthusby/HN-Proxy

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