[HN Gopher] TikTok Hacked
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       TikTok Hacked
        
       Author : unknownaccount
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2022-09-04 22:26 UTC (34 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | radiojasper wrote:
       | Why am I not surprised?
        
       | rzz3 wrote:
       | Shocked to see them using MySQL here. I can't imagine it working
       | very well at their scale.
        
         | bognition wrote:
         | Why not? MySQL can be extremely performant at scale. I've seen
         | tiny MySQL databases serve in ver 50k req/sec.
        
         | makeitdouble wrote:
         | MySQL gets a bad rap because of it's casual wrangling of data
         | types and query formats.
         | 
         | Performance wise it's one of the toughest battle tested system
         | you can imagine.
        
       | marcooliv wrote:
       | Is this the start of the end of TikTok?
        
         | keepquestioning wrote:
         | Yes. No doubt the much vaunted algorithm will make their way to
         | competitors, through digital fencers.
        
         | bognition wrote:
         | Lol no. The company makes billions of dollars and is funded by
         | the Chinese government.
         | 
         | TikTok is here to stay
        
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