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dang confirmed a few months ago it's still the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 Also, it's st

dang confirmed a few months ago it's still the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379 Also, it's still using the Arc programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23483639

ineedasername 5y ago
Pft. They have two boxes, a master & standby. Real gamers play on permadeath.
- krapp 5y ago
  Actually HN is served from Sam Altman's fitbit now.
podge 5y ago
With that in mind I wonder what the uptime % of HN is, and if the master/standby setup involves automatic failover.
- hypertele-Xii 5y ago
  In all my years, HN has been down just once.
  - jacob019 5y ago
    I notice short term outages every couple months. They usually don't last long.
  - deckard1 5y ago
    I wonder if Reddit is ever going to fix their "you broke reddit" thing. I probably see that page a couple dozen times a year, and it's been going on since, what, 2014? Earlier maybe? It's like the Twitter fail whale. Except Twitter fixed their site.
    - frosted-flakes 5y ago
      Don't you mean a couple dozen times per day?
  - deleted 5y ago
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- brimble 5y ago
  Occasional page load failure while logged in? Pretty common. Complete or nearly complete failure for logged-in users? Happens sometimes. Completely down such that not even a logged-out user can read it? I'm not sure I've ever seen that.
  - jve 5y ago
    Has it bothered someone? Probably not.
- wglb 5y ago
  I use HN a lot and it is very rare that it is down, and then only for a short period of time. (Not a very exact metric). I do get an occasional no-response from firebase, but my guess is that this is really on my ISP. Again, that is also quite rare.
krapp 5y ago
The current distribution Arc Lisp can be found at https://arclanguage.org https://arclanguage.org. It ships with a forum that isn't up to date nor does it have feature parity with HN, which is kind of its own black box because Real Money is involved, and Real Money ruins everything. Also there is a public fork of Arc Lisp at https://arclanguage.org/anarki https://arclanguage.org/anarki, which is not guaranteed to be stable, and ships with a forum which is definitely not to feature parity with HN.

ineedasername 5y ago

Pft. They have two boxes, a master & standby. Real gamers play on permadeath.

krapp 5y ago
Actually HN is served from Sam Altman's fitbit now.

podge 5y ago

With that in mind I wonder what the uptime % of HN is, and if the master/standby setup involves automatic failover.

hypertele-Xii 5y ago
In all my years, HN has been down just once.
- jacob019 5y ago
  I notice short term outages every couple months. They usually don't last long.
- deckard1 5y ago
  I wonder if Reddit is ever going to fix their "you broke reddit" thing. I probably see that page a couple dozen times a year, and it's been going on since, what, 2014? Earlier maybe? It's like the Twitter fail whale. Except Twitter fixed their site.
  - frosted-flakes 5y ago
    Don't you mean a couple dozen times per day?
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
brimble 5y ago
Occasional page load failure while logged in? Pretty common. Complete or nearly complete failure for logged-in users? Happens sometimes. Completely down such that not even a logged-out user can read it? I'm not sure I've ever seen that.
- jve 5y ago
  Has it bothered someone? Probably not.
wglb 5y ago
I use HN a lot and it is very rare that it is down, and then only for a short period of time. (Not a very exact metric). I do get an occasional no-response from firebase, but my guess is that this is really on my ISP. Again, that is also quite rare.

krapp 5y ago

The current distribution Arc Lisp can be found at https://arclanguage.org https://arclanguage.org. It ships with a forum that isn't up to date nor does it have feature parity with HN, which is kind of its own black box because Real Money is involved, and Real Money ruins everything. Also there is a public fork of Arc Lisp at https://arclanguage.org/anarki https://arclanguage.org/anarki, which is not guaranteed to be stable, and ships with a forum which is definitely not to feature parity with HN.