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HISTORICAL RECORD2012–2013
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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-05-11 16:20:42 UTC to 2013-07-28 13:35:12 UTC.

012012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2013

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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malandrew·Oct 15, 2012
This article has the right title and discusses the idea of services, not servers, but misses an even bigger opportunity to discuss how you can legitimately ditch lots and lots of servers. WebRTC means that every application can have aspects of peering and reduce the need for centralization in servers. Back in 2010, well before WebRTC, I posted the following use case on the WHAT-WG mailing list that explores using peering to offset CDN static asset serving costs in social games. It was a while ago when I was a product manager and a lot less technical, so excuse some of the naive misconceptions I may have made at the time. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20... Anyone interested in exploring an idea like iron.io, but in their own application stack should check out the following projects from James Halliday (substack
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) https://github.com/substack/seaport https://github.com/substack/airport https://github.com/substack/fleet https://github.com/substack/airport-cluster-example It'd be awesome to see someone combine WebRTC with the basic idea behind Seaports to allow semantic versioning of services provided by your application's users.
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