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HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.

• rmujica 6y ago
  TIL. What for?
  • porkbrain 6y ago
    The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase. https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
• qwertox 6y ago
  Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?
• ratww 6y ago
  Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage. There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.