HN has scaled, but not because pg hasn't worried about scaling (although to be fair, it doesn't seem to have worried much): "I already have problems enough wit

HN has scaled, but not because pg hasn't worried about scaling (although to be fair, it doesn't seem to have worried much): "I already have problems enough with that. Remember, the original motivation for HN was to test a new programming language, and moreover one that's focused on experimenting with language design, not performance. Every time the site gets slow, I fortify myself by recalling McIlroy and Bentley's famous quote The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. and look for the bottleneck I can remove with least code. So far I've been able to keep up, in the sense that performance has remained consistently mediocre despite 14x growth. I don't know what I'll do next, but I'll probably think of something." http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html