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1 indexed? Edit: HN is apparently written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp.

• redox99 2y ago
  Almost all DBs have a default starting ID of 1.
  • tomhoward 2y ago
    Indeed, though HN didn't use a database when it was first built. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515628
• eru 2y ago
  And Arc is (or was?) implemented in Racket, another language in the Lisp family and closely related to Scheme.