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Doesn’t HN run on top of firebase? Which ties it to Google? People seem to imply its run on a dedicated instance.

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No; a copy of the HN database is synced regularly to Firebase (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), but IIRC the site itself runs on a single process on a single machine with a standby ready.

edit: Yup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595

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