Anytime I read something like “10,000 requests in a few hours” or “one million requests in a week” I‘m immediately skeptical of the framing.

Anytime I read something like “10,000 requests in a few hours” or “one million requests in a week” I‘m immediately skeptical of the framing.

That’s ~0.5 rps and ~1.7 rps, respectively. The disposable vape on HN right now claims 6.25 rps (160 ms page loads).