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Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

(ycombinator.com)
257 points pg | 1 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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gms ◴[19 Jan 11 18:54 UTC] No.2120793[source]▶
Who's Filo? David Filo?
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aristus ◴[19 Jan 11 19:13 UTC] No.2120859[source]▶
Yep. He's still a mensch. Yahoo did some incredible stuff on Apache & FreeBSD back in the day. I remember a hack that added hardcoded HTTP headers to the image files on disk, to squeeze that extra nilth percent out of the server.
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1. jcapote ◴[19 Jan 11 20:37 UTC] No.2121179[source]▶
That's awesome!