HN is not responsive because it urgently needs a performance upgrade and is on a single core.
Amazing though that it holds up as well as it does though. But I think the HN server will see some more traffic before the OpenAI circus has run its course. It's been a whole hour without a new major event, I wonder what's keeping them.
Well, yes but that's mostly because of Dang's continuous loving attention. The foundation of HN is not horizontally scalable and that shows, even though the bulk of the data is served from a CDN the updates due to highly active threads are what kills it.
Amazing though that it holds up as well as it does though. But I think the HN server will see some more traffic before the OpenAI circus has run its course. It's been a whole hour without a new major event, I wonder what's keeping them.