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I have a new project that needs a landing page, a signup flow, and a dashboard section displaying some data from a database.

I highly prefer simple, blazing fast websites like Hacker News and Craigslist that load near instantly.

I’ve got a little experience with Rails, React, Java/Kotlin (Android), and node/express.

Is there a particular tech stack that would be suitable for building something where load speed is a priority? I am more than happy to learn a new stack for this project. Thank you!

I’m in the design phase for a new project that will involve quite a bit of web scraping, formatting that data as appropriate and saving to a DB.

The sources to be scraped are quite varied.

I’ve got a little bit of experience with Node/Express and Ruby/Rails. I’m more than happy to pick up Go or Python/Django or Elixir or something else if those are more appropriate. I think my hesitation with going back to Node is that I slightly prefer static typed languages, but happy to use the best tool for the job.

My concern is computing/bandwidth costs as the various scrapers will be running and alternating quite frequently.

I’m hoping you all could give some recommendations for a stack that makes it easy to run mass scheduled web scraping jobs with little overhead in order to reduce server costs. Thanks!

Ok, obviously this is a touchy topic for some people, but it shouldn’t be. I figured HN is probably the most mature forum I am a part of to ask this, especially compared to reddit.

I have not yet completed a primary vaccine course and was planning on finally getting my first shot on Friday (I’ll probably choose one of the two mRNA ones). Obviously, there must be more data on the main vaccines now then there was almost 2 years ago.

So, is one of the mRNA vaccines better? Have any of you had legitimate long term unexpected problems that you think may have been caused by your response to the vaccine?

I know HN is not medical forum but I genuinely don’t know where else to have this discussion; Reddit would result in nothing but argumentative discussion.

I contracted Covid very early (early January 2020) while working in SF. I handled it well and of course at the time both myself and my doctor treated it as the flu after I assured her I had not recently visited China.

It seems like since that period in time, my physical and mental abilities have very slightly deteriorated. I used to wake up early, hit the gym for a solid 90 minutes, meal prep and eat healthy, diligently work on my side projects and generally be “on the ball”.

It’s difficult to pinpoint when, but it seems like since the infection I feel generally weaker, have trouble being decisive, ambition seems diminished, general “clarity” seems to be gone.

It’s difficult to say whether this was caused by the infection or caused by the pandemic and socioeconomic changes that followed, or something else. I never got the Covid vaccine but I’ve heard it might help with “long Covid”, so I’m just curious if anyone else suffered similar symptoms and ended up curing them.

Again, I know HN is not a medical forum but I do not know of another forum for an intellectual discussion on this topic.