It's a couple dozen rps and that's with a page that's actively begging to be reloaded. It's not nothing but as traffic spigots go, it's not that much even for a small single-person-hosting-a-thing kind of project.

If you look at things that get overwhelmed by HN, more often than not they get fixed pretty quickly as the authors figure out they've missed something relatively straightforward that's response-murdering.