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IIRC, HN itself runs on modest hardware as well (just 4-cores, also FreeBSD).

To be fair, that is 4 dedicated cores not shared with other tenants.

> 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads

Its not 4 , but 16 'cores' 2 packages = dual cpus on the same motherboard.