Front page of Hacker News!

Tonight’s been fun: This post made it to position 7 on the front page of “hacker news,” a website that’s visited by millions of nerds IT and startup enthusiasts.

I’ve had more than a week-worth of traffic, every hour:

I normally get ~30-40 visitors per hour. Tonight I got ~2,100. In one hour.

Thanks to nginx and a static website built with hugo, my webserver never went over 2% utilization:


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