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by stevenp 5599 days ago
Wow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.
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I am not sure on the details, but it has something to do with the server that they are running. Whatever the server is it doesn't do gzip or ssl, but the proxy does both :-)
The server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".