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Hacker News serves +4M requests per day using nothing but two FreeBSD servers…


4M requests/day is ~46 requests/second , for content, that could be cached a lot. Even if you have spikes that are 100x bigger than the average, that would be 4600r/s which does not seem like much in 2025.




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