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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 2 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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MuffinFlavored ◴[05 Apr 23 23:37 UTC] No.35462038[source]▶
Does he get paid to do moderation full time?
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dang ◴[06 Apr 23 02:28 UTC] No.35463383[source]▶
Yes. Well, that and write code, which unfortunately is a vanishing piece of pie.
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1. MuffinFlavored ◴[06 Apr 23 15:08 UTC] 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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2. dang ◴[06 Apr 23 19:15 UTC] No.35473043[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.