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mcassagnes

Big fan of the Audit log as a way to build trust towards my tools or upstreams
Looks dope, will check it out.
Thank you. I did not expect that!
Do you have any source for this? I'd love to know more about how they re rank items incrementally.

Do they actually update every single row in the database every 5 minutes? It seems too slow.

Does Hacker News sort trending topics on-the-fly or as a scheduled task?

I'm interested to know how they deal with massive amounts of data and still deliver blazing fast results. When I go to https://news.ycombinator.com/, are the threads sorted on-the-fly or pre-computed every x minutes? I found lots of information regarding the actual algorithm, but not how it is implemented.

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