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Arc Forum Maintenance
7 points by kogir 3678 days ago | 5 comments
I'm moving the Arc Forum from an ancient physical server in Houston to an EC2 instance. I'll also remove all references to assets hosted at *.ycombinator.com so that the forum can stand alone.

The server switch, DNS updates, and restarts will cause availability interruptions this weekend. Sorry!



4 points by zck 3677 days ago | link

Cool! Glad to hear things are still happening. I'm sure we'd love to hear more about what's going on at YC with Arc.

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4 points by kogir 3676 days ago | link

The Hacker News codebase is in Arc, and will be for the foreseeable future. All the core domain work is done in it, and we write Arc code every day. When it makes sense for performance or practical reasons we call into Racket, but not frequently enough that we've even bothered exposing nice syntax for it (like anarki's $).

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5 points by akkartik 3676 days ago | link

I'm not sure if you're the best person to ask, but:

Is the arc currently running HN significantly different from the arc 3.1 c. 2009?

Any plans for a new arc release? :)

Any lessons you can share from your experiences scaling up HN? (Like the push to eliminate fnids, for example.)

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4 points by kogir 3677 days ago | link

Now running on the new server. DNS may take a bit to update.

Things are running on the latest FreeBSD and Racket, but the code is way behind what I've been working on in HN, so please email me at nick@ycombinator.com if you see anything wonky.

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1 point by akkartik 3677 days ago | link

No problem! Thanks for the effort, kogir.

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