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It seems we've beat the webserver serving this blog with one hug from HN.
by justinator 7y ago
It seems we've beat the webserver serving this blog with one hug from HN.
- andrewflnr 7y agoShould have written the server in brainfuck, I guess.
- paulddraper 7y agoThere must be way more people reading HN than I would think. Here we are 7 hours after post, overloading it. Suppose "overloading" this blog is a mere 2 requests/s. Suppose that an entire 10% of people reading HN click on this link, and on average click on it twice. Further suppose that the average "active" HN user reads HN 5 times a week. That means there are 1,210,000 active HN readers.
- ddalex 7y agoThanks for the math! I did several estimations of How-Many-of-Us-are-Here and I got ~1M users by various methods (eg number of upvotes using Reddit engagement numbers), so I'll take your number with a happy confirmation bias.