The articles almost write themselves. "New silicon valley incubator 'Lambda Lifter' incubates new incubators"; "In profit maximization move, VC firm branches into Private Equity to buy out, load with debt, and bankrupt own portfolio companies"; ...
"The goal is to have a system that is very simple to understand and modify and that is able to handle a very high load using a small virtual server, ensuring at the same time a very low latency user experience."
I don't think I prefer scalability and low-latency over a high-quality of people discussing things I care about. The focus should be on community, not handling a large number of users.
Wasn't it more a showcase, showing what can be done with some pretty dependency-free Ruby and Redis as the main (and only) datastore/caching mechanism?
All attempts at HN clones, fail to understand that what makes HN click is the community, and the same set of rules that make us angry sometimes are responsible for HN surviving these many years.
