Why Y Combinator’s Hacker News Is Flawed

Re:Why Y Combinator’s Hacker News Is Flawed by wakeupthedawn on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @03:36PM (#1149028)

This site times out more than any other site I visit regularly. I wish they would fix that first.

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Re:Why Y Combinator’s Hacker News Is Flawed by seiji on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @03:40PM (#1149043)

HN is written in the 100-year programming language Arc using the first Unlimited Scalability tactic of keeping everything stored as serialized hash tables. Any performance problems you may experience are due to your lack of ability to perceive perfection.

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Re:Why Y Combinator’s Hacker News Is Flawed by jhuckestein on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @03:52PM (#1149087)

I think most distributed "unlimited scalability" databases (S3, Google bigTable) are (essentially) serialized hash tables.

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