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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by pshc on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:49PM (#28751227)
It was my perception 10 years ago that HN was powered by a single threaded process with the entire post history loaded into memory (not sure how accurate this perception was). I am curious how much it has changed.

edit: found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by suyash on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:55PM (#28751290)
my perception is a server located in YC's office under PG's desk ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by winrid on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:32PM (#28751700)
My understandind is pretty much everything for HN requires IO to disk. The Era of NVME SSDs...
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by dang on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:47PM (#28752505)
We also have RAM.

Edit: but we can't GC it fast enough. On a day like today I wonder if always going to disk mightn't be better.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by csdreamer7 on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:10PM (#28752725)
Hi dang, thank you for what you do.

Do you (or anyone else) have an article on HN's infrastructure? Would like to read more about this.

Tried to Google it but was filled with links to other people's infra on HN.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by inside65 on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:38PM (#28754188)
The original comment in the thread has that information, and it's nothing to write home about. Maybe it has improved since, but it's not like they're running a network of supercomputers.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by hedvig on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:54PM (#28751970)
And the glyph rendering is offloaded to the gpu, which as any good development team should know, is much faster.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by exikyut on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:25AM (#28756741)
Wow, FreeBSD! Cool.
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