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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2019–2022
peak thread · 337 comments
1214 pts
latest 20+ return · 2020-09-14
265 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

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Live demo on my website @ https://sysadmincasts.com/ Temporary added it in-line for testing. I was already in the sub 100ms level but this just puts it over the top! Also updated all admin add/edit/delete/toggle/logout links with "data-no-instant". Pretty easy. Open developer preview and watch the network tab. Pretty neat to watch it prefetch! Thanks for creating this! ps. Working on adding the license comment. I strip comments at the template parse level (working on that now). pps. I was using…

> instant.page’s script is hosted serverless with Cloudflare Workers so that there’s no server to hack into. There are a lot of reasons that this software is "safe" but this absolutely isn't one of them and highlights to me as a potential user that you haven't thought through your thread model. The subresource integrity line should absolutely be the headline here.

I wish the browsers added this, and then allowed users to set their own settings. That aside, has anyone used this and rigged up something to also preload above the fold images and CSS? Even if it had to be config'ed in a particular way it seems it woukd be worth the effort.

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
1482

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Total comments
461

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2019-02-09Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minuteFirst breakout · Best threaddieulot1214337
2020-06-03Instant.page: Speeding up web sites with 200 lines of JavaScriptmemexy10
2020-09-14Instant.pageLatest 20+ point returnvinnyglennon265122
2022-10-23Make your site’s pages instant in one minutemetadat22