Hacker News Reader

How many developers does hacker news have?

HN is a much, much simpler program, both in terms of features and internals. Internally, Reddit is a gigantic mess.

Isn't HN basically news.arc[1] plus some custom mods and caching with content/stories saved as flatfiles?

Reedit has many more sophisticated load issues to about. The two aren't really comparable it seems.

Yeah, that was my point. Reddit is much more complex and much messier.

It also doesn't have a gazillion pageviews a month and daily downtime.

rtm and pg, plus a few mods as far as I can tell.