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It would be interesting to hear from the author how the server is handling HackerNews traffic

assuming you proxy requests to the different processes. that's not what those examples are doing - they simply share a server socket and let the kernel load balance incoming connections over them.

here's what it looks like for those without web socket browsers: http://img.skitch.com/20100701-1hsg3n1g7akjutqe7h63g4n4e.png

...why do you not /want/ it to be true?

Wow! Zed invented the HTTP proxy!