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please take a moment to read Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's introductions of Stack Overflow.3 Did you notice what I did? Both describe Stack Overflow as the solution to a very specific problem: programming knowledge locked up in minds and forums whence it's difficult to retrieve. They also explain how they intend to solve the problem including... See more

Here’s what we believed in 2020: apps work better when they run closer to their users. Some kinds of apps, like video or real-time presence, can’t be done without physical locality. So, that’s what we expected to talk about on our HN launch thread: WebRTC, edge caching, game servers.

What people actually wanted to talk about, though? Databases.

Here’... See more