[typical182]

As I understand it, written in Go.

There's a mildly humorous "How do you know" exchange where someone on HN quizzes the very person most likely to know:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920020

[jacquesm]

HN has had a couple of those.

[recov]

Mandatory HN lore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

[jacquesm]

That was one of the ones I had in mind. What's really neat is that everybody from that thread is still visiting HN and participating.