{ "id": 40100000, "created_at": "2026-08-15T09:12:00.000Z", "type": "story", "author": "poster", "title": "A Story About Databases", "url": "https://example.com/databases", "points": 342, "text": null, "children": [ { "id": 40100001, "type": "comment", "author": "alice", "text": "The write path is the interesting part here.

Especially fsync batching.", "points": 61, "children": [ { "id": 40100002, "type": "comment", "author": "bob", "text": "Agreed — and the group commit numbers match my own benchmarks.", "points": 24, "children": [] } ] }, { "id": 40100003, "type": "comment", "author": "carol", "text": "Counterpoint: the benchmark hardware is unrealistic.", "points": 12, "children": [] }, { "id": 40100004, "type": "comment", "author": null, "text": null, "points": null, "children": [ { "id": 40100005, "type": "comment", "author": "dana", "text": "Replying to a since-deleted comment, but the point stands.", "points": 3, "children": [] } ] } ] }