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HN the site, looks deceptively simple. It solves a number of problems simultaneously [0] yet seems to work at scale [1] without bugs. [2]
The success of Arc, a Lisp derivative is in the everyday usage of the site and the hard problems it solves. [3] The original comment stands.
[0] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
[1] "1.6 million page views and 200,000 unique visitors on a given weekday" 2013 ~ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-new...
[2] In fact almost 10 years ago I reported a bug, pg actually responded it was a server reset. https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/406590838/
[3] Submitting high quality links, with high quality discussion while increasing users. That is a hard problem.
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HN the site, looks deceptively simple. It solves a number of problems simultaneously [0] yet seems to work at scale [1] without bugs. [2]
The success of Arc, a Lisp derivative is in the everyday usage of the site and the hard problems it solves. [3] The original comment stands.
[0] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
[1] "1.6 million page views and 200,000 unique visitors on a given weekday" 2013 ~ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-new...
[2] In fact almost 10 years ago I reported a bug, pg actually responded it was a server reset. https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/406590838/
[3] Submitting high quality links, with high quality discussion while increasing users. That is a hard problem.