It actually seems faster for me compared to the past two weeks. Not sure if I was being throttled or something, at times it felt like it.

We don't throttle specific users*. At one time we did (it was called slowbanning) but that's been gone for close to a decade now.

It's a bit disconcerting how often I say "close to a decade now" now.

* Edit: we do rate-limit some accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), which throttles how much they can post to the site, but we don't throttle how quickly they can view the site.

Thanks for the disclosure, if it gets crazy slow many I'll shoot you an email next time.

I'm worried about that too. Don't have good data or even consistent gut feelings yet.

The big test will be when we hit peak load, perhaps on Monday or Tuesday.

I think overall the feeling of "slowness" last week may have been from everyone coming back in all at once or something. It seems just as fast as it was again.

Where are you located?

Ever since I read someone's comment that 'HN is the fastest site they regularly visit', I've wondered if that's because they're in the western US (where HN is hosted).

I am in Western Europe and HN is decently fast, but tweakers.net and openstreetmap.org are faster.