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my perception is a server located in YC's office under PG's desk ;)

My understandind is pretty much everything for HN requires IO to disk. The Era of NVME SSDs...

We also have RAM.

Edit: but we can't GC it fast enough. On a day like today I wonder if always going to disk mightn't be better.

Hi dang, thank you for what you do.

Do you (or anyone else) have an article on HN's infrastructure? Would like to read more about this.

Tried to Google it but was filled with links to other people's infra on HN.

The original comment in the thread has that information, and it's nothing to write home about. Maybe it has improved since, but it's not like they're running a network of supercomputers.

And the glyph rendering is offloaded to the gpu, which as any good development team should know, is much faster.

Wow, FreeBSD! Cool.