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Afaict, HN is still running on a rusty potato. The software's written well, so it doesn't need to run on more than that. (What's going to happen to it? Someone

Afaict, HN is still running on a rusty potato. The software's written well, so it doesn't need to run on more than that. (What's going to happen to it? Someone links to it from HN?)

gregsadetsky 1y ago
less rusty as of ~sep 2024 :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006
- wizzwizz4 1y ago
  They've upgraded to a multi-eye potato‽ Truly the wonders of modern technology have no bound.
  - consumer451 1y ago
    I mean, I love what it says about the insanity of some of the tech stacks that we run these days. The potato with multiple eyes works to serve one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.
    - pinkmuffinere 1y ago
      > one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet. I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.
      - youniverse 1y ago
        I wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.
        consumer451 1y ago
        I think it’s single digit percentages that have an account.
        fragmede 1y ago
        90-9-1 principal is considered the truth, though I've not seen any rigorous studies to back that up. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_9091_principle_10_of_reddit_users_decide_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
        pinkmuffinere 1y ago
        At the very least I'm confident it's a power-law distribution. 90-9-1 seems like a reasonable first-order estimate (but I've also seen no data)
      - airstrike 1y ago
        Given how often a link that makes it to the front page struggles to serve the incoming traffic from HN, it's fair to say HN is quite efficient
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        pinkmuffinere 1y ago
        I think [being unable to handle peak load] does not imply efficiency. Unless perhaps this is a joke that I’m misunderstanding? Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago
A LISPy potato, right?

Afaict, HN is still running on a rusty potato. The software's written well, so it doesn't need to run on more than that. (What's going to happen to it? Someone links to it from HN?)

gregsadetsky 1y ago

less rusty as of ~sep 2024 :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

wizzwizz4 1y ago
They've upgraded to a multi-eye potato‽ Truly the wonders of modern technology have no bound.
- consumer451 1y ago
  I mean, I love what it says about the insanity of some of the tech stacks that we run these days. The potato with multiple eyes works to serve one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.
  - pinkmuffinere 1y ago
    > one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet. I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.
    - youniverse 1y ago
      I wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.
      - consumer451 1y ago
        I think it’s single digit percentages that have an account.
      - fragmede 1y ago
        90-9-1 principal is considered the truth, though I've not seen any rigorous studies to back that up. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_9091_principle_10_of_reddit_users_decide_on/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
        pinkmuffinere 1y ago
        At the very least I'm confident it's a power-law distribution. 90-9-1 seems like a reasonable first-order estimate (but I've also seen no data)
    - airstrike 1y ago
      Given how often a link that makes it to the front page struggles to serve the incoming traffic from HN, it's fair to say HN is quite efficient
      - deleted 1y ago
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      - pinkmuffinere 1y ago
        I think [being unable to handle peak load] does not imply efficiency. Unless perhaps this is a joke that I’m misunderstanding? Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago

A LISPy potato, right?