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Comment by jeroen | Hacker News Reader

It _is_ the Yahoo! logo. paulgraham.com still runs on Viaweb, which is now Yahoo Store, which is probably where the favicon comes from.

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What source are you quoting? are you really sure?

Yes, how sure are you? I read somewhere that Viaweb was rested by yahoo and the yahoo webstore as we know it is code written in C++ and not lisp.

From the source of http://paulgraham.com/articles.html : "// Begin Y! Store Generated Code"

I didn't mean to imply anything about the code or architecture of Yahoo! Store, just about its origin.

I remember pg saying in a comment or article somewhere that his site was one of the few remaining sites still running on the old viaweb system (presumably the one written in lisp).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55451

According to a more recent post, Yahoo! forced Paul to move to the C++ version in the Fall; he experienced some side effects, from what I remember reading.

Yes, here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180391

$ host paulgraham.com paulgraham.com has address 68.142.205.137 paulgraham.com has address 216.252.126.190 paulgraham.com mail is handled by 10 milter1.store.vip.mud.yahoo.com. paulgraham.com mail is handled by 10 milter1.store.vip.sp1.yahoo.com.

$ host 68.142.205.137 137.205.142.68.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer html1.store.vip.mud.yahoo.com. $ host 216.252.126.190 190.126.252.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer html1.store.vip.sp1.yahoo.com.

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