I have a modest proposal for addressing the terrible dearth of fnids on this site. Since fnids are in such high demand, and yet are expensive to keep in memory,

I have a modest proposal for addressing the terrible dearth of fnids on this site. Since fnids are in such high demand, and yet are expensive to keep in memory, one small change might free up lots of them - remove the use of fnids for more pages and use a static url instead so the more link on: https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://news.ycombinator.com/news would point to: https://news.ycombinator.com/news/2 https://news.ycombinator.com/news/2 and so on.... This would free up many fnids for use elsewhere, and also make the secondary list pages more easily cacheable and reduce load on the server. The same could be done for other lists which currently use fnids without any appreciable change in the user experience or probably much change in the server code.