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Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by pikzen on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:22AM (#12911428)
It pegged the server with... 2000 comments?

Does HN run on a raspberry Pi or something?

Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President by dang on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:25AM (#12911461)
There's a lot of processing going on when rendering HN threads. For logged-out users we can cache them, but for logged-in users everything's served from a single core running Arc in Racket.