Hacker News does not rely on any public cloud infrastructure; and uses a completely bespoke web framework and (I believe) bespoke programming language. Scaling that setup is hard.
cos it's still running off an old server. that and bigger news stories lately, so the YC data center currently likely resembles the fields around Ypres, ca. 1918
Because Sam Altman was fired and it blew up the server.
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)
3939 points by davidbarker 1629 comments.
The admins had to paginate the comments.
Other than that, who knows? When sites are slow, I hop over to HN because it's the fastest to respond, being text-based, and it tells me that the internet is awake.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 41.7 ms ] threadsctb (previous HN co-moderator) mentioned a few years ago that hosting is provided by "M5 Hosting."[1]
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com) 3939 points by davidbarker 1629 comments.
The admins had to paginate the comments.
Other than that, who knows? When sites are slow, I hop over to HN because it's the fastest to respond, being text-based, and it tells me that the internet is awake.