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This was fun lol. There's something calming about being inundated with stimulation.

All they mean by that is if you want to be mad at someone be mad at him.

How is asking about the architecture of this site least interesting and lowest in information? Your opinion is the least interesting and lowest in information.

:mind-blown: Hats off to PG for building an app that could handle 4m requests with the architecture of a small hobby project.

HN is for sure a contribution to the community that they generously provide (and a bit of a recruiting tool for YC no doubt. Perhaps not as much these days since YC is a household …

I accept this answer as canonical.

An app doesn't need to be multi-threaded to horizontally scale the physical hardware. A load balancer can dispatch requests to multiple single-threaded processes running on individ…

Is it just for clout to say they have a high-traffic app that runs on a lean stack? When big news events like the OpenAI drama happen the site gets bottlenecked. I can understand i…

There's a ton of emerging app stores out there like CloudFlare's App Store: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/ Slack's App Store has also birthed a ton of startups both big and small…

Does QA just pull and test against a dev instance? Do they test against prod? Do engineers get prod API keys if they have to test an integration with a 3rd party?

How can I buy in, I've got a feeling this is gonna moon, diamond hands all the way. /s/joke

The "virtues" of poverty? Poverty is hell for people who can't choose it. What a cruel statement.

Is this a real service, or just a portfolio project for your resume?

Back in the day, people had these things called "lives" with irl friends and loved ones. Back then, watching a movie was a special thing you did that brought people together, they …

Aaron Swartz deserves a statue for future generations to know what he stood for and how he was martyred by the US government.

Makes sense to me. This is going to be sick once it's ready!

Ha!

Totally off-topic, I don't know why, but I really like the design of your website!

Try winking at it. Hold one eye open and one eye closed and it will cycle through all the changes.

Then you are a true nihilist.

I appreciate your username, but really, is this the hill to die on? Being morally relativistic about this subject is beyond the pale. And to make it obvious: yes, yes you should fi…