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Re:Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB S... by geenat on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:38PM (#28014103)
Cool example of minimalism.

But hate to be that guy- if you're querying a database, it is not static.

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Re:Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB S... by dmd on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:56PM (#28014214)
Nope, it is - unless you think "loading html pages from a remote web server" is also not static.

The point is there's no computation going on on the server, behind the scenes; your browser is doing all the work of knowing what to fetch, NOT the remote end, with the magic of range requests.

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Re:Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB S... by peterkelly on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:14PM (#28014941)
That's what's so brilliant about this. The database query happens on the client, not on the server. The server side is entirely static hosting.
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