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by wakeupthedawn 5961 days ago
This site times out more than any other site I visit regularly. I wish they would fix that first.
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HN is written in the 100-year programming language Arc using the first Unlimited Scalability tactic of keeping everything stored as serialized hash tables. Any performance problems you may experience are due to your lack of ability to perceive perfection.
I think most distributed "unlimited scalability" databases (S3, Google bigTable) are (essentially) serialized hash tables.