5 ms·Wow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.by stevenp 16y agoWow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.mhusby 16y agoI am not sure on the details, but it has something to do with the server that they are running. Whatever the server is it doesn't do gzip or ssl, but the proxy does both :-)rick_2047 16y agoThe server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".