Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now.

Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by pg on Saturday March 14, 2009 @04:16PM (#516129)

Looks like everything went well. Handy having Robert Morris as your sysadmin. The new server seems to be about 2x as fast. The frontpage renders for me in about 50 msec. But the site should seem more than 2x faster (for logged-in users) because many requests will terminate before being interrupted.

There's now enough memory that we can fit all the links and comments in memory at once again. We should be good for another year or so.

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by aaronblohowiak on Saturday March 14, 2009 @04:27PM (#516143)

Thanks! Also, for those of us who don't know who Robert Morris is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

* MIT Prof

* creator of first internet worm

* cofounder of viaweb and ycombinator

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by cperciva on Saturday March 14, 2009 @04:29PM (#516146)

former chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency

That's rtm's father, not rtm.

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by alecco on Saturday March 14, 2009 @08:42PM (#516395)

Man, what I'd give to have a chat one day with RTM. So many questions. :)

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by pg on Saturday March 14, 2009 @10:29PM (#516502)

Apply to YC, and if you make it to interviews you can get grilled by him in person.

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by tdavis on Saturday March 14, 2009 @11:20PM (#516532)

I seem to recall most exchanges going thusly:

  pg: Robert, do you have anything to add?
  rtm: No.

Though he did talk during the interview. In this age of Twitter he's my hero.

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by alecco on Saturday March 14, 2009 @11:52PM (#516555)

Wish I could but I don't fit the criteria. But thanks, your offer is much appreciated.

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by cperciva on Saturday March 14, 2009 @09:13PM (#516426)

As a cryptographer, I'd rather talk to RM senior -- but as an NSA alumnus, I don't think he'd want to talk to me. :-)

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Re:Yay! Hacker News is on a new and improved server now. by aaronblohowiak on Saturday March 14, 2009 @05:29PM (#516189)

Thanks, updated.

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