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how many users are we up to?

11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get around 45k unique visitors on weekdays.

awesome, out of curiosity, what kind of server is HN running on? edit: guy below me who maxed out the thread, server not language

as of ~a year ago: "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1"

see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118

It's still that one. We were starting to spend too much time gcing once everything got lazily loaded, but a few days ago I started throwing stuff out of memory and now it looks like we've got performance back into the tolerable range.

http://hnstatus.net/

One day, I will be able to load my saved items...

Wow, no kidding. And I'm certain items are missing from the beginning of the list. I know they're still saved somewhere, because I can't upmod those articles.

It's a server written in arc.

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