Quite off topic, but I'm always sad to see really poor scalability:

To my surprise, this blog post hit the top spot on HN at least briefly. My blog started throwing some app errors.

I've had a couple of hit HN stories on my blog without a problem, and it was hosted from my apartment on an old server with 256MB of RAM. Now, it is static pages served through nginx, but I'm pretty sure that a few thousand hits shouldn't require 10 Heroku dynos to not fall over.

Kids these days. (the mindset, not the age)