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		matsemann on March 11, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator 1 indexed? Edit: HN is apparently written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp.

redox99 on March 11, 2025 | [–]

Almost all DBs have a default starting ID of 1.

tomhoward on March 12, 2025 | | [–]

Indeed, though HN didn't use a database when it was first built.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515628

eru 12 months ago | [–]

And Arc is (or was?) implemented in Racket, another language in the Lisp family and closely related to Scheme.

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