←back to thread

Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

(ycombinator.com)
257 points pg | 2 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.529s | source
Show context
gms ◴[19 Jan 11 18:54 UTC] No.2120793[source]▶
Who's Filo? David Filo?
replies(7): >>2120858 #>>2120859 #>>2120886 #>>2120933 #>>2121026 #>>2121300 #>>2121976 #
1. PStamatiou ◴[19 Jan 11 19:13 UTC] No.2120858[source]▶
That was my first thought and it would appear so. Filo was a big FreeBSDer

http://zer0.org/daemons/yahoobsd.html

replies(1): >>2120893 #
2. spidaman ◴[19 Jan 11 19:23 UTC] No.2120893[source]▶
Filo was a total hacker, reportedly still is. At least into the late 90's, he was active on the FreeBSD mailing lists with encyclopedic knowledge of SCSI card and NIC drivers and assorted other hardware and FreeBSD stuff. He was oft found sitting on the hallway floor in the first colo I used (ISI in Mountain View), screwdrivering the chassis' of Yahoo's early servers.