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Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters

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145 points yathern | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source

Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.

1. mechagodzilla ◴[03 Apr 25 21:30 UTC] No.43575699[source]▶
Ha! When I was first learning to program in high school, I wrote a 'distributed monkeys-on-typewriters' simulator. I somehow acquired a stack of surplus Pentium 100s that I had running in an unused closet at the school, communicating with each other over IPX. I remember the server had a fun 'Guess-operations-per-second' (GOPS) realtime display.