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rahimnathwani 2 hours ago

'regular people' use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc.

Even you use HN.

Not everything can be local.

My friends and family aren't going to be convinced to use a Jitsi instance running in my house (where I pay $0.35/kWh).

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lioeters 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I always imagined the HN server running on a single machine in some basement, running a magically efficient Lisp program that easily handles millions of requests per second.

	▲	seltzered_ an hour ago \| parent [-]
		HN supposedly currently runs via M5 Hosting according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750668 (comment from late 2025), though I think it ran on a single server over a decade ago.

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littlestymaar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Even you use HN.

A website that runs on an infra that could sit in a cupboard under the stairs serving hundreds of thousands of users with very small loading time.

> My friends and family aren't going to be convinced to use a Jitsi instance running in my house

> (where I pay $0.35/kWh).

Using an old phone or laptop as server means you'll end up with a single digit annual electricity bill for that.

	▲	rahimnathwani 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does dang run HN on a single server? Why does HN use Algolia for search and Firebase for its API? "Using an old phone or laptop as server means you'll end up with a single digit annual electricity bill for that." The largest possible single digit annual electricity bill would be $9. That's almost enough to run a 3W device 24x7 for a year. Do you know any old phone or laptop that can serve as a reliable Jitsi server yet draws an average of 3W or less?