I don't think "HN exists because of LISP" is the reason that Lisp posts are popular on HN today. Viaweb also used GNU's compiler, ran on FreeBSD, and stored al

I don't think "HN exists because of LISP" is the reason that Lisp posts are popular on HN today. Viaweb also used GNU's compiler, ran on FreeBSD, and stored all data in flat files -- but those other choices aren't nearly as popular here (or in general practice) today.