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technothrasher 12 hours ago

> Hackernews is notorious for causing outages when a link to a self hosted site trends.

This made me briefly nostalgic for the old glory days of Slashdot, which is the first place I recall that would cause the "hug of death".

ChoGGi 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I believe the hug of death is Reddit, Slashdot was slashdotted.

mlrtime 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

/. affect was a real thing for sure. I'm not sure it happens much on HN.

My guess is a combination of tech being better and HN having lower volume vs peak /. (before digg&reddit).

danielray324 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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