I'd forgotten about the French connection here.
replyBTW, I searched Kagi for "tolerable latency without echo cancellation in France" and saw your comment. Wow. I didn't realize web crawlers were that current these days.
Kagi is a Google frontend, and Google appears to index Hacker News in real time. I bet they have written site-specific code to scrape /comments continuously.
replyNot The Silliest Contrivance to happen to video standards :P
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