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I always imagined the HN server running on a single machine in some basement, running a magically efficient Lisp program that easily handles millions of request
by lioeters 4mo ago
I always imagined the HN server running on a single machine in some basement, running a magically efficient Lisp program that easily handles millions of requests per second.
- seltzered_ 4mo agoHN supposedly currently runs via M5 Hosting according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750668 (comment from late 2025), though I think it ran on a single server over a decade ago.
- littlestymaar 4mo agoBack in 2018 it was already running on M5 Hosting, but still on a single server: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 (And honestly I don't see why it would have changed given that the hardware has been getting faster in the meantime).