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Last I read, Hacker News was still running on one big machine. And still uses text files as its database.
by erik 4y ago
Last I read, Hacker News was still running on one big machine. And still uses text files as its database.
- threeseed 4y agoTwitter runs ads and generates billions in revenue. It can't just tolerate being down or having under-load issues like HN often is.