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A worthwhile criticism, except... How many ads do you see on HN? What's the ad revenue? What are the operating costs?
So, to reiterate your argument: 1. We don't matter to pg because we don't generate profit and are instead a slow drain on resources 2. Therefore this site must be a relic of the 90s written in an ad-hoc collection of mzscheme macros
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We currently get just over 200k uniques and just under 2m page views on weekdays (less on weekends).
Does a single server support this level of traffic? That is pretty impressive - it would be great to learn about the server's hardware and software configuration.
New server: one Xeon E5-2690 chip, 2.9 GHz, 8 cores total, 32 GB RAM.
Hi. Could someone please explain to me why it is necessary for a service (e.g. HN) to go down while people play with the (increasingly amorphous and abstract) back end? Is it 1990? Sorry, just hit a nerve. Like doing some OS updates (Windows) and then needing to reboot to "complete the installation". I'm sorry. That totally sucks.
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Add me to the list - I'm in for $100 if we can make it a one week outage. $250 if we can stretch it out to two weeks. I'm sorry, but 10 minutes on a saturday morning does nothing for me.
Without meaning to sound snarky or anything, isn’t there something else at work if you have to externally block sites to stop you procrastinating? I would have thought getting to the root cause of your “HN addiction” would probably be a better alternative.
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A commenting site that: - Has average latency over 500ms when not under load - Performs quite poorly under load (I hate to bring it up, but the most recent example was Aaron Swartz's passing. Anyone who used HN then to get news knows how poorly HN performs under load) - Is restarted every week or two because it leaks memory - Keeps XSRF tokens in memory and loses them across restarts - Doesn't have a full markup lang…
You're probably seeing the artificial delay introduced for commenters that can't maintain at least a 4.0 comment point average or people who aren't signed in. Site runs like butter for me.
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Add me to the list - I'm in for $100 if we can make it a one week outage. $250 if we can stretch it out to two weeks. I'm sorry, but 10 minutes on a saturday morning does nothing for me.
My router at home blocks Reddit and HN except from 5-7pm and 11:45-midnight (and all day Saturday). Worked amazingly well to cut back the addiction. Now if I could just get HTTPS blocking to work on FB and Twitter.
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Does a single server support this level of traffic? That is pretty impressive - it would be great to learn about the server's hardware and software configuration.
Old server: two Xeon E5450 chips, 3.0 GHz, 8 cores total, 24 GB RAM. New server: one Xeon E5-2690 chip, 2.9 GHz, 8 cores total, 32 GB RAM.
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My router at home blocks Reddit and HN except from 5-7pm and 11:45-midnight (and all day Saturday). Worked amazingly well to cut back the addiction. Now if I could just get HTTPS blocking to work on FB and Twitter.
I do the same. It works pretty well, it's crazy when you start catching yourself trying to go to one of them by habit.
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Files???? That's a joke right???
I find it interesting how easy it is to criticize a functioning system based on some aspect of non-conformance with some hypothetical ideal. The idea that HN wouldn't run on a database is no less astounding than the idea that much of facebook runs on PHP. Design of real systems is often messy and imperfect and deviates from the ideal due to necessity of optimizing one or another factor that may not be obvious.