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Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

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257 points pg | 1 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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earle ◴[19 Jan 11 19:06 UTC] No.2120831[source]▶
HN only supports 20 req per second???
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1. imp ◴[19 Jan 11 19:16 UTC] No.2120867[source]▶
Maybe that's just for dynamic pages. Probably most of the most popular pages are cached and wouldn't be considered in that 20 req/sec. Just my own wild guess though.