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		JohnHaugeland on Aug 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker News moved off AWS again at 10:17 PM PST I kind of wonder if it's somehow not thread safe, or not talking to a database; or if not, why they don't just run parallel copies

_Wintermute on Aug 15, 2022 [–]

I can't find an authoritative source, but I've read that HN uses text files stored in a filesystem rather than a database, so that might be why?

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