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Does he get paid to do moderation full time?

• dang 4y ago
  Yes. Well, that and write code, which unfortunately is a vanishing piece of pie.
  • owlninja 4y ago
    What if it was a cake :)
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  • MuffinFlavored 4y ago
    what does the infrastructure of HN look like? 1 tall SQL server and an API written in... Python? Ruby? Rails? How many instances? Cloud? How tall of a server/servers? It is as interesting to me as those "here is how we run StackOverflow" articles No newfangled complicated k8s I'm guessing :P
    • dang 4y ago
      HN is written in Arc, a Lisp that pg created. Hardware hasn't changed much since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041. I believe traffic is closer to 6M now.