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1 indexed?

Edit: HN is apparently written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp.




Almost all DBs have a default starting ID of 1.


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

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


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




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