if a startup came to YC with on the order of 10k uniques within minutes of posting a top link, and the kind of user accounts and engagement that HN has, they wo

if a startup came to YC with on the order of 10k uniques within minutes of posting a top link, and the kind of user accounts and engagement that HN has, they wouldn't care if it was written in Perl 2.0 running on a repurposed old 747's partial fly-by-wire computer. Really, Nobody Cares. Dropbox was an rsync executed every two minutes.[1] AngelList was done via email. [1] can't find this reference atm, could be apocryphal