| ▲ | 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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