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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by avikalpa on Sunday June 12, 2016 @05:01PM (#11890217)
You're rather mistaken my friend. Hacker News existed a long time before AWS. It has 2 servers - 1 production, 1 standby, running FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is the OS of choice for them.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by smokel on Sunday June 12, 2016 @05:15PM (#11890281)
Perhaps I misunderstand your remark, but AWS (2006) predates Hacker News (2007). According to Wikipedia, that is.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by thematt on Sunday June 12, 2016 @05:36PM (#11890371)
EC2 was only in limited beta back in 2006. It wasn't in full production until 2008.
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