It's amazing how powerful hardware is in the past decade, and how masterly crafted and efficient some software is (linux, nginx, etc) ... while other software is so profoundly inefficient, that we forget.
Yeah, I've had a few HN frontpages with sites running Django and recently Phoenix with essentially no caching or optimization running on a 256MB fly.io free tier instance with barely a noticable increase in load (just big spikes in the network/traffic graphs).
Yes, it’s a static website. It’s amazing how little performance you actually need to survive a HN avalanche