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My bet is on AWS, but I'm also rather curious about this.

• avikalpa 10y ago
  You're rather mistaken my friend. Hacker News existed a long time before AWS. It has 2 servers - 1 production, 1 standby, running FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the OS of choice for them.
  • smokel 10y ago
    Perhaps I misunderstand your remark, but AWS (2006) predates Hacker News (2007). According to Wikipedia, that is.
    • thematt 10y ago
      EC2 was only in limited beta back in 2006. It wasn't in full production until 2008.