Beating C with one line of Brainfuck

Re:Beating C with one line of Brainfuck by justinator on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:21PM (#21624955)

It seems we've beat the webserver serving this blog with one hug from HN.

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Re:Beating C with one line of Brainfuck by andrewflnr on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:52PM (#21625054)

Should have written the server in brainfuck, I guess.

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Re:Beating C with one line of Brainfuck by paulddraper on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:22PM (#21625179)

There must be way more people reading HN than I would think.

Here we are 7 hours after post, overloading it.

Suppose "overloading" this blog is a mere 2 requests/s.

Suppose that an entire 10% of people reading HN click on this link, and on average click on it twice.

Further suppose that the average "active" HN user reads HN 5 times a week.

That means there are 1,210,000 active HN readers.

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Re:Beating C with one line of Brainfuck by ddalex on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:05AM (#21625618)

Thanks for the math!

I did several estimations of How-Many-of-Us-are-Here and I got ~1M users by various methods (eg number of upvotes using Reddit engagement numbers), so I'll take your number with a happy confirmation bias.

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