Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 @zekjur@mas.to

6/3/2025, 6:47:19 PM

Public

Neat, #NixOS provides public access to their (Fastly) CDN metrics: https://github.com/NixOS/infra/tree/main/metrics/fastly

Here’s the cache.nixos.org requests data for 2025, for example (visualized with matplotlib, xkcd-style). (Not sure why the data doesn’t cover more recent weeks.)

Pretty interesting to see the significant drops on weekends, and to see the magnitude of requests — cache.nixos.org seems to handle well over 2000 requests/second on average 😲

plot of cache.nixos.org requests over time

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