Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?

Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by dang on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:12PM (#33987354)

Yes. Sorry. Working on it. One of these years we'll get better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002228

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by gavinhoward on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:32PM (#33987735)

Funny link, especially if you notice what the title is!

I'm curious though: what sort of synchronization does HN use?

It seems like HN could benefit from RCU (read copy update) because it can be super fast and can have great throughput. Its biggest cost is sometimes reading outdated data, which doesn't seem that big in the context of HN.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by toast0 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:35PM (#33993836)

As I recall, HN is single threaded, so there's no synchronization.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by jshchnz on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:25PM (#33987583)

thanks for all your hard work keeping HN alive and well!

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by I_complete_me on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:50PM (#33990350)

Sorry. Do you have something to apologize for?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by dang on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:55PM (#33992762)

being Canadian

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? by sargstuff on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:25PM (#33993730)

dang > "...es. Sorry. Working on it ..."

Guess Kiro in original thread finally got a reply / test case.

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