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Re:Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast? by jonahx on Sunday August 02, 2015 @10:14AM (#9990790)
That's impressive. What is their architecture?
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Re:Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast? by aw3c2 on Sunday August 02, 2015 @10:16AM (#9990802)
http://forum.dlang.org/help#about says

> This website is a web frontend to the DigitalMars NNTP server and mailing lists. It is part of DFeed, which is also a D news aggregator and IRC bot.

> DFeed was written mostly by Vladimir Panteleev. Portions (including style and graphics) are Copyright © by Digital Mars. The source code is available under the GNU Affero General Public License on GitHub: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

Probably as static as possible, speed is easy then.

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Re:Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast? by mootothemax on Sunday August 02, 2015 @10:54AM (#9990922)
>Probably as static as possible, speed is easy then.

With an empty cache, every asset except font awesome is getting to me - here in Poland - in under 200ms, with some under 150ms.

For 22 requests - even with a total payload of "only" 155kb - whether static or not, that is seriously impressive.

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