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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-24 20:32:27 UTC to 2016-09-08 22:21:00 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 212016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 132016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 5

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 282016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 42016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 112016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 182016-04-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 252016-04-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC000
May 22016-05-02 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC000
May 92016-05-09 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC000
May 162016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC000
May 232016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC000
May 302016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 62016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 132016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 202016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 272016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 42016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 112016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 182016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 252016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 82016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 152016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 222016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 292016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 52016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC101

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ndex.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-url/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/fix-path/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/fn-args/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/fn-name/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/globals/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/imul/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-text-path/blob/master/ind... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-up/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-travis/blob/master/index.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-video/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-webp/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-archive/blob/master/index... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-admin/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-absolute-url/blob/master/... https://github.com/sindresorhus/ipify/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-url-superb/blob/master/in... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-tif/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/datetime/leap-year/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/lpad/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/md5-hex/blob/master/index.js And I ran out of willpower, at only L. Seems to me the complete lack of any decent standard library has caused this Cambrian explosion of packages, and the overhead is astounding. Sure it's appealing to google "nodejs validate ip", then run "npm install is-ip" and use it with "require('is-ip')", but fuck me how wasteful do you want to be. My frontend ember app ends up installing over 500mb of dependencies (most of which is useless test files and other redundant fluff files). How has this happened? What's to stop one of those one line packages adding a malicious one liner that concatenates and uploads your super-secret private source code to somebodies server? You're really trusting the complete integrity of your codebase because you depend on "is-array", because you can't be bothered to write "x.toString() === '[object Array]'", and JS introspection (which seems so (ab)used) is so broken that this is needed? Woah.
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