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Show HN: Outage Bingo

224 points by notamy 5y ago

ricardo81 5y ago
Centralisation hell on a bingo card.
echelon 5y ago
Some of these TLDs are insane. This is about as obscure as ".horse"
mynameismon 5y ago
Wouldn't Twitch also count for the breach?
- notamy 5y ago
  Twitch was last month! New cards are made for each month.
  - mynameismon 5y ago
    I didn't even realise it was in October.
- notamy 5y ago
  You can see previous months by changing the `month` querystring param, see ex. https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 for last month
jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I have strategically picked my card and all I need is a major DNS provider and reddit to go down. Hopefully I get a real prize and not just my data being leaked. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420
- CodesInChaos 5y ago
  https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 is similar. Either reddit+dns or apple by itself would be enough
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- skykooler 5y ago
  My first spin has bingo already: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=81405 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=81405
bgirard 5y ago
I got a bingo after checking 5 seeds: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392
- kaetemi 5y ago
  Bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=46935 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=46935
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- mmastrac 5y ago
  That saved me from clicking another few hundred times, thanks.
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- ComputerGuru 5y ago
  Aww, no confetti and BINGO! popup or marquee?
  - notamy 5y ago
    Oh that's a great idea! I've written it down ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7 https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7
    - qwertox 5y ago
      "Written it down"
  - rodentman87 5y ago
    Just got added, with a little secret in case the tech world starts on fire and we fill the whole card
- one_off_comment 5y ago
remram 5y ago
It would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or strategically)
- notamy 5y ago
  It's open source! I'm open to PRs ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo
- notamy 5y ago
  Thanks for adding this :D <3
KennyBlanken 5y ago
Cute, but Comcast was 5 days ago GCP was 4 days ago Facebook was 13 days ago Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock trading platform that happens to trade crypto.)
- mmastrac 5y ago
  The card is for all of November '21
  - notamy 5y ago
    Yup! Cards are monthly (and created manually so we can adjusted based on previous months of outages/breaches)
- dubcanada 5y ago
  GCP was today actually.
  - notamy 5y ago
    There was a GCP outage a few days ago, which is what Outage Bingo has linked. It sadly doesn't currently support multi-links per-card.
  - dilyevsky 5y ago
    It used to have outages all the time. It still does but it used to too
- notamy 5y ago
  Robinhood was one that we (me + friends) were a bit on the fence about, since it does -- as you say -- get really close to the edge, but it seemed close-enough.
- LamdbaMamba 5y ago
  Robinhood probably still earns more than half of its transaction based revenue from crypto, with the rest being options and stocks. I think it actually does qualify as a major cryptocurrency service. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jumped-over-45-fold-in-q2-to-233-million.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jum...
DoctorOW 5y ago
If AWS goes down, taking Slack out then I get a bingo. There's gotta be an Amazon employee who can help me out. :) https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828
- dylan604 5y ago
  psst, i know a guy. meet me by the bicycle racks at 3pm
  - jacktheturtle 5y ago
    lol which ones
JrProgrammer 5y ago
https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313 Just need Apple to go down :)
capableweb 5y ago
"A major cryptocurrency service" links to https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/robinhood-trading-app-suffers-data.html https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/robinhood-trading-app-suff..., not sure if it's on purpose or by mistake? Robinhood is not a major service in the cryptocurrency space.
samstave 5y ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS @PATIO11 ON THIS MATTER!!!?? --- I love this! WEhat would be really awesome would be: ANTI-PATTERN-OUTAGE-BINGO-DDOS-VOTE : "Who should the botnet go after?" And have users bot-vote the target of whatever version of LOIC they can muster... (And a BLUE version - which is users dedicated to protecting such site) -- Im smelling a click-game here... Anyone? A N Y O N E ?> ? ?
samstave 5y ago
This is going to be Internet Gold right here.
- sdenton4 5y ago
  Just needs some integration with InTrade....
bberenberg 5y ago
I would love to be able to set this up by submitting some group of statuspages as a data source.
- fragmede 5y ago
  If you build it, don't forget to make a ShowHN post!
- notamy 5y ago
  That'd be a cool longer-term goal :D Right now it's all manual to allow for changing the cards month-to-month.
danShumway 5y ago
Have we seriously not already had a major VPN leak? We must have had one by now, right? I vaguely feel like more of these cards should already be blue? But maybe I'm just quibbling over what "major" means or how long in the past we should go to look. --- Regardless, fun project, I like the idea a lot. I'll also add my vote alongside other commentors that I'd love to be able to use names as seeds. Edit: hah, looks like a pull request is already merged (https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/pull/9/files https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/pull/9/files).
- notamy 5y ago
  Cards are per-month; see ex. last month's card here https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316
  - danShumway 5y ago
    Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.
leetrout 5y ago
Reminds me: Dyn is now under Oracle.
hirundo 5y ago
I read this as Outrage Bingo. Now I want that. If you build it, we will come. You could auto-generate squares with the Twitter API. Twitter, the Outrage Propagation As A Service platform. Mark the square if its term appears in a headline on the HN front page. The number of bingos will be inversely correlated with the quality of the HN feed. It could be used for QA.
- monkeybutton 5y ago
  Same. The Bingo tld is clearly under utilized in playful and or sarcastic applications. Now there's a place I to put my corporate townhall bingo cards..
- notamy 5y ago
  Ooh that sounds like a fun idea :D Maybe soon.
- djbusby 5y ago
  Twitter: Platform (for) Outrage Optimisation (and) Propagation or "POOP"
acidburnNSA 5y ago
I love bingo cards as commentary. I became 'well known' in the nuclear industry for passing out 'Nuclear Renaissance Bingo' cards at a national meeting during a keynote whilst pretending it was official. Since then I've recently revived my bingo card generator. It defaults to nuclear things but you can actually write your own options and then share the URL with your custom options encoded into the URL. Fun for zoom meetings for sure. https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html
- capableweb 5y ago
  That's very cool, thanks for sharing your story :) If you find a way to monetize it, you can become the next patio11, eventually get hired by Stripe (or whatever is the cool finance startup in about 10 years) and start ranting about how the new financial ecosystem being built at the time is nothing like $NextStripe.
fotta 5y ago
Shouldn't the FBI's email vulnerability over the last weekend count for "A government entity"?
- notamy 5y ago
  Yes it should! Thanks for the catch :D Edit: This has been added!
__s 5y ago
> A major code hosting service (Github, PyPI, NPM, etc.) Looks like there's two free spaces on these sheets
bastardoperator 5y ago
Did anyone get Roblox last month?
jedberg 5y ago
No Netflix? Not sure if I should be proud or insulted. :)
- blitzar 5y ago
  Its right there in the middle - labeled Free Space
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224 points by notamy 5y ago

ricardo81 5y ago

Centralisation hell on a bingo card.

echelon 5y ago

Some of these TLDs are insane. This is about as obscure as ".horse"

mynameismon 5y ago

Wouldn't Twitch also count for the breach?

notamy 5y ago
Twitch was last month! New cards are made for each month.
- mynameismon 5y ago
  I didn't even realise it was in October.
notamy 5y ago
You can see previous months by changing the `month` querystring param, see ex. https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 for last month

jalgos_eminator 5y ago

I have strategically picked my card and all I need is a major DNS provider and reddit to go down. Hopefully I get a real prize and not just my data being leaked. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420

CodesInChaos 5y ago
https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 is similar. Either reddit+dns or apple by itself would be enough
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skykooler 5y ago
My first spin has bingo already: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=81405 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=81405

bgirard 5y ago

I got a bingo after checking 5 seeds: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392

kaetemi 5y ago
Bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=46935 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=46935
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mmastrac 5y ago
That saved me from clicking another few hundred times, thanks.
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ComputerGuru 5y ago
Aww, no confetti and BINGO! popup or marquee?
- notamy 5y ago
  Oh that's a great idea! I've written it down ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7 https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7
  - qwertox 5y ago
    "Written it down"
- rodentman87 5y ago
  Just got added, with a little secret in case the tech world starts on fire and we fill the whole card
one_off_comment 5y ago

remram 5y ago

It would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or strategically)

notamy 5y ago
It's open source! I'm open to PRs ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo
notamy 5y ago
Thanks for adding this :D <3

KennyBlanken 5y ago

Cute, but Comcast was 5 days ago GCP was 4 days ago Facebook was 13 days ago Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock trading platform that happens to trade crypto.)

mmastrac 5y ago
The card is for all of November '21
- notamy 5y ago
  Yup! Cards are monthly (and created manually so we can adjusted based on previous months of outages/breaches)
dubcanada 5y ago
GCP was today actually.
- notamy 5y ago
  There was a GCP outage a few days ago, which is what Outage Bingo has linked. It sadly doesn't currently support multi-links per-card.
- dilyevsky 5y ago
  It used to have outages all the time. It still does but it used to too
notamy 5y ago
Robinhood was one that we (me + friends) were a bit on the fence about, since it does -- as you say -- get really close to the edge, but it seemed close-enough.
LamdbaMamba 5y ago
Robinhood probably still earns more than half of its transaction based revenue from crypto, with the rest being options and stocks. I think it actually does qualify as a major cryptocurrency service. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jumped-over-45-fold-in-q2-to-233-million.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jum...

DoctorOW 5y ago

If AWS goes down, taking Slack out then I get a bingo. There's gotta be an Amazon employee who can help me out. :) https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828

dylan604 5y ago
psst, i know a guy. meet me by the bicycle racks at 3pm
- jacktheturtle 5y ago
  lol which ones

JrProgrammer 5y ago

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313 https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313 Just need Apple to go down :)

capableweb 5y ago

"A major cryptocurrency service" links to https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/robinhood-trading-app-suffers-data.html https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/robinhood-trading-app-suff..., not sure if it's on purpose or by mistake? Robinhood is not a major service in the cryptocurrency space.

samstave 5y ago

WHERE THE FUCK IS @PATIO11 ON THIS MATTER!!!?? --- I love this! WEhat would be really awesome would be: ANTI-PATTERN-OUTAGE-BINGO-DDOS-VOTE : "Who should the botnet go after?" And have users bot-vote the target of whatever version of LOIC they can muster... (And a BLUE version - which is users dedicated to protecting such site) -- Im smelling a click-game here... Anyone? A N Y O N E ?> ? ?

samstave 5y ago

This is going to be Internet Gold right here.

sdenton4 5y ago
Just needs some integration with InTrade....

bberenberg 5y ago

I would love to be able to set this up by submitting some group of statuspages as a data source.

fragmede 5y ago
If you build it, don't forget to make a ShowHN post!
notamy 5y ago
That'd be a cool longer-term goal :D Right now it's all manual to allow for changing the cards month-to-month.

danShumway 5y ago

Have we seriously not already had a major VPN leak? We must have had one by now, right? I vaguely feel like more of these cards should already be blue? But maybe I'm just quibbling over what "major" means or how long in the past we should go to look. --- Regardless, fun project, I like the idea a lot. I'll also add my vote alongside other commentors that I'd love to be able to use names as seeds. Edit: hah, looks like a pull request is already merged (https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/pull/9/files https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/pull/9/files).

notamy 5y ago
Cards are per-month; see ex. last month's card here https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316
- danShumway 5y ago
  Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.

leetrout 5y ago

Reminds me: Dyn is now under Oracle.

hirundo 5y ago

I read this as Outrage Bingo. Now I want that. If you build it, we will come. You could auto-generate squares with the Twitter API. Twitter, the Outrage Propagation As A Service platform. Mark the square if its term appears in a headline on the HN front page. The number of bingos will be inversely correlated with the quality of the HN feed. It could be used for QA.

monkeybutton 5y ago
Same. The Bingo tld is clearly under utilized in playful and or sarcastic applications. Now there's a place I to put my corporate townhall bingo cards..
notamy 5y ago
Ooh that sounds like a fun idea :D Maybe soon.
djbusby 5y ago
Twitter: Platform (for) Outrage Optimisation (and) Propagation or "POOP"

acidburnNSA 5y ago

I love bingo cards as commentary. I became 'well known' in the nuclear industry for passing out 'Nuclear Renaissance Bingo' cards at a national meeting during a keynote whilst pretending it was official. Since then I've recently revived my bingo card generator. It defaults to nuclear things but you can actually write your own options and then share the URL with your custom options encoded into the URL. Fun for zoom meetings for sure. https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html

capableweb 5y ago
That's very cool, thanks for sharing your story :) If you find a way to monetize it, you can become the next patio11, eventually get hired by Stripe (or whatever is the cool finance startup in about 10 years) and start ranting about how the new financial ecosystem being built at the time is nothing like $NextStripe.

fotta 5y ago

Shouldn't the FBI's email vulnerability over the last weekend count for "A government entity"?

notamy 5y ago
Yes it should! Thanks for the catch :D Edit: This has been added!

__s 5y ago

> A major code hosting service (Github, PyPI, NPM, etc.) Looks like there's two free spaces on these sheets

bastardoperator 5y ago

Did anyone get Roblox last month?

jedberg 5y ago

No Netflix? Not sure if I should be proud or insulted. :)

blitzar 5y ago
Its right there in the middle - labeled Free Space

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