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Re:Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed? by tremols on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @12:13PM (#7873409) 

  My guess is that Arc - the lisp language running HN created by Paul Graham - was new, and coding and maintaining a database driver was out of question. 

 Today, perhaps the way to go would be to use some sort of json webservice interface to a database written in another language rather than writing a driver.
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Re:Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed? by adwf on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @12:42PM (#7873633)
That would be my guess as well. It's one thing to decide you want a simple forum and have it coded within a couple of days. It's entirely another to spend months creating a stable database library and keep it upto date with all the latest changes.
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Re:Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed? by u124556 on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @05:39PM (#7875487)
Or you could, you know, use a more popular language.
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