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		rbanffy on Nov 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to ... Won't we all hitting HN's home every couple seconds cause a server meltdown?

pkrumins on Nov 29, 2009 [–]

Nope. The front page is 90-seconds cached for the not-logged-in people. And by default the program queries the site once every 3 minutes.

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