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That you can go and read through the code in about 5 minutes and see that the only thing special about it is the name of the author.

I don't get why HN is going crazy about this. Please tell me if I am missing something obvious.

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Because it flies directly in the face of the "cloud everything" or "kubernetes cultism" that seem prevalent. It's a change, basically.

> "cloud everything" or "kubernetes cultism" that seem prevalent.

Not here? To me, general sentiment on news.yc has been anti cloud / k8s for at least 5 years, if not more.

I am guessing that a lot of people who entered the industry since big cloud was a thing never learnt the basics of how to deploy on servers, so these 2000 lines of code are absolutely magic to them.

Personally I use a ~200 line shell script + docker to deploy self hosted apps on a cheap office computer that lives under my desk.

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