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Hacking Scale by Better Stack
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Hacking Scale by Better Stack is the company blog at newsletter.betterstack.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “GitHub Reduced Repo Storage size by over 90%”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Hacking Scale newsletter post, which one commenter cited as reporting that GitHub stored 19 petabytes before a repository cleanup. The commenter noted the figure is unconfirmed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A weekly newsletter about building and scaling software from engineers at Better Stack.
Most-linked posts?
- GitHub Reduced Repo Storage size by over 90%3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-20
What Hacker News says?
Veracity unconfirmed, but this article asserts that until they did some cleanup they were storing 19 petabytes. https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-github-reduced-repo... maybe sourced from this tweet? https://x.com/github/status/1569852682239623173 Edit: though maybe that data doesn't count as your "just text" data.
Comment linking /p/how-github-reduced-repo-storage-size
on “90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars”Submitted Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instagram Saved 90% of Computing Power and Improved Video Quality as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted WASM SQLite made Notion 30% Faster as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How OpenAI Scaled Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes by Removing One Plugin as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Reduced Repo Storage size by over 90% as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted DoorDash Got Redis to Handle 10M Reads per Second as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Netflix Uses Throttling to Prevent 4 Big Streaming Problems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here's What Caused 8.5M Computers to Crash as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Reduced Repo Storage size by over 90% as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did LinkedIn just build their own torch.compile? as a story · 1 points
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