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A comment on Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?.

Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by lovebes on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:23AM (#28155965)
how did they make it so fast? I'm always surprised by its loading speed
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Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by sokoloff on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:25AM (#28155982)
Perhaps an equally (more?) relevant question is "why are other sites so slow?"
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Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by Feoj on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:30AM (#28156051)
Simplicity. Clean HTML ("rendered" server side), straight forward CSS and little JavaScript.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by iamwil on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:32AM (#28156085)
I remember reading a couple years ago, that there's no database. It just reads stuff off disk, and then caches it in memory.

It probably also helps that the html/css/js is minimal

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? by ryandvm on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:43AM (#28156235)
By not having any features
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