Comment by physicalecon

The author does all sorts of odd-looking optimizations in order to make the web page run on a single host of cheap battery/solar powered compute.

It does seem a bit extreme, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating: this website has been featured on the HN front page many times and I’ve not seen it ever falter. The same cannot be said for the many run of the mill “infinite scalability” cloud based SPA’s that make the front page – even those maintained by sizable organizations with hefty cloud budgets.