Also shout out to HN for fixing whatever it was that caused threads as large as this to slow down the whole of HN to the point where loading any thread would take forever.

That's also dang.

Give that man a raise.

Seriously. Managing these threads must feel like tax season for a CPA

Believe it or not, the hardest part right now is Javascript's lack of tail recursion. The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing on this thread because there are so many comments.

Not sure whether it's more efficient to fix these errors first, or just power through moderating the thread manually, but boy does the latter suck.

The hardest part of moderating a big, high-traffic, heated political thread being JavaScript's lack of tail recursion is the most HN thing I've ever seen.

> Javascript's lack of tail recursion

Even in Safari? [1]

[1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563

The software I'm talking about is, alas, a Chrome extension.

I have a little extension I wrote for myself to improve some things, and that's also having difficulty. So yeah, not just you.

Hacking a Lisp compiler is a perfectly reasonable sidequest for any task!

> The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing

Throw more hardware at it! Get a maxed-out Macbook same day delivered.

Server(s?) seems to be holding up well given what must be record activity levels.

Maybe because of how good he is at moderation, I would say that this seems to be the least awful one of these threads that we've had during the Trump era.

That's because the US west coast is just waking up and sitting down at their computers right about now. The next few hours will undoubtedly be, um, challenging for the moderators.

Possibly but HN still runs on a fairly more niche (this is not an insult) reputation system, it's not Reddit which is known to absolutely everybody