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The site is really fast. I see HTTP/3, OpenGraph, and Cloudflare. Can you expand on the technologies used?

Also... "Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it."

> Please don't put generated text in HN posts.

Claude speak gives me a gag reflex these days.

talk about speed! I have never seen anything with useful content load that fast. Very curious on what went into making it.
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It does load faster than Hacker News itself here…
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Local search index is the key to responsiveness.
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Thanks! First version was clunky, and hot-linked all cover images. Right now its plain JS and static JSON files, hosted on Cloudflare. First load pulls a ~30kb index of the top books, the full 16k list loads in the background, and everything has hashed filenames so it's cached forever. Covers are on R2. The data pipeline is python + duckdb over the HN dump.

And fair on the post, I had claude draft it and only edited it a couple of times. Should have just written it myself.

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