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gregsadetsky·

less rusty as of ~sep 2024 :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

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They've upgraded to a multi-eye potato‽ Truly the wonders of modern technology have no bound.

I mean, I love what it says about the insanity of some of the tech stacks that we run these days.

The potato with multiple eyes works to serve one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.

> one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.

I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.

Given how often a link that makes it to the front page struggles to serve the incoming traffic from HN, it's fair to say HN is quite efficient

I think [being unable to handle peak load] does not imply efficiency. Unless perhaps this is a joke that I’m misunderstanding?

Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient

I wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.

90-9-1 principal is considered the truth, though I've not seen any rigorous studies to back that up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

At the very least I'm confident it's a power-law distribution. 90-9-1 seems like a reasonable first-order estimate (but I've also seen no data)

I think it’s single digit percentages that have an account.

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