> HN is basically as static as it gets. Functionally every single page request on HN is dynamically generated - I feel like you have a fundamental misunderstan

> HN is basically as static as it gets. Functionally every single page request on HN is dynamically generated - I feel like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "static" means in this context. A static site is where the web server is serving html files as they appear on disk - as opposed to a dynamic site, where LAMP-like stack dynamically generates html responses based on query and session. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_web_page