I was about to say that, myself. The irony of asking this question on HN made me smile. Note that they are (or did? or might be?) moving to a DB format in the

I was about to say that, myself. The irony of asking this question on HN made me smile. Note that they are (or did? or might be?) moving to a DB format in the end, but for at least the first several years of Startup/Hacker News, it was S-expressions written to files.