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by jedberg 2546 days ago
Yes excellent point. Some browsers/plugins will prefetch every GET on the page to speed up browsing.
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Rebelgecko 2546 days ago
Some browsers also show a "here's your top 10 most visited webpages" shortcut when you make a new tab, which does a GET. I ran into that one when I was being lazy about building/testing an API.
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justinhj 2545 days ago
In the Hacker News case there isn't a GET request on the page, it's triggered by the javascript so this would not happen
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