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600 points codetrotter | 6 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
1. MuffinFlavored ◴[] No.35462038[source]
Does he get paid to do moderation full time?
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2. dang ◴[] No.35463383[source]
Yes. Well, that and write code, which unfortunately is a vanishing piece of pie.
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3. owlninja ◴[] No.35463898[source]
What if it was a cake :)
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5. MuffinFlavored ◴[] No.35469350[source]
what does the infrastructure of HN look like? 1 tall SQL server and an API written in... Python? Ruby? Rails? How many instances? Cloud? How tall of a server/servers?

It is as interesting to me as those "here is how we run StackOverflow" articles

No newfangled complicated k8s I'm guessing :P

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6. dang ◴[] No.35473043{3}[source]
HN is written in Arc, a Lisp that pg created. Hardware hasn't changed much since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041. I believe traffic is closer to 6M now.