Thanks for this suggestion! I did The Science of Happiness https://www.edx.org/course/the-science-of-happiness. Not sure what "the best" really means, but I think it had the biggest impact on my life.

I've been a customer since 2006 and just cancelled my account. Not sure, where I'll move, but I need a provider that supports .de domains. I'm leaning towards uberspace.de, but will consider Hetzner as well.

Pascal is an interesting language choice. I think it is the 1st time I see an open source project that is actually used in production written in Pascal.

I doubt that Google prioritizes Wikipedia deliberately. Wikipedia has tons of backlinks, authority, trust, typically a high text to html ratio, probably a low bounce rate. Moreover, it is fast, works well on mobile and on and on. It's is just a very well done and useful site for users and search engines.

My thoughts as well. They don't need special treatment to be in the top 3.

Wikipedia being ranked high is even an indicator for SEOs that an affiliate niche is not very competitive.

Having done a similar project[1], that also includes affiliate links to Amazon and being called a spammer by some people because of that, I really appreciate your stance, that if a project adds value, monetizing it is okay.

Moreover, I'd like to add that affiliate links are less intrusive and dangerous wrt to malicious code and user privacy. I wonder why Adsense et al rarely get called out, but affiliate links do. Maybe it's my confirmation bias or it's because people don't see those other ads, because of using an ad blocker.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924741

I remember that one... it looks like I shared a similar view in your thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927366). :)

I think your hunch is correct — we hover over the links and see it in the query string. There's probably a Chrome extension out there somewhere to strip affiliate links from URLs, but honestly they've never bothered me because they don't detract from my experience.

I wanted an easy way to search HN, especially limiting results by number of comments/points and to restrict them to sections like "Ask HN". This is what I came up with for now, maybe some of you find it useful as well.

Many of mbostock's recent "blocks" use D3 v4 http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock

These are not tutorials, but working examples with some introductory texts. They are very helpful for diving into D3.

Apache server. I know it is not a hip choice, but I've used it for more than 15 years to serve static and dynamic websites. I've changed tech stacks from perl to php to python used different data bases and Apache always just worked.

Same and I've used it for a similar period, I look at alternatives but since apache has never let me down, is ridiculously stable and I know it well I've simply never seen a reason to leave.

I was in this camp for a long time until I tried to get mod_deflate and mod_socache_memcache to play nice together and the wheels came off. Moved to Varnish (fronted by HAproxy) and could not be happier!

Exciting release! I played with the force layout on canvas to graph reddit conversations http://ramiro.org/tool/graphit/

It's harder to get interaction done with canvas compared to SVG, but for large graphs the performance gains are huge. Curious to dive into the other new features.

Thanks for this incredible piece of software mbostock!

No, it doesn't and therefore is no viable option for many real-world datasets.