HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?
There is something comical about this: HN receives an absurd amount of traffic. More than startups and corporations with millions of customers and millions if not billions of dollars behind them, and yet it runs on effectively an arduino nano compared to what they are using.  HN serves all the contents significantly faster than any of them at the fraction of the time and cost. Let's take my old job for instance: the company website had almost nothing on it: a list of products, a jobs page and that's it. That website ran on 12(yes, twelve) dell servers, each having a 4 socket motherboard, each occupied by a 12 core xeon, and each of those servers had 384 gigs of ram. Sure, it tracked every click and whatnot but the data that was tracked was never actually used and the all-beloved bundle.min.js was 15 megabytes. So much for low carbon footprint and all that...