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Hacker News was down
- MrPatan 4y agoI went digging into what was wrong with my network. I'm deep into updating my pihole now, for better or for worse. Wish me luck!
- eikenberry 4y agoGood luck!
- lostlogin 4y agoArgh. And if you run it in Docker like I do, I have to relearn the lesson that taking down the container, losing internet, then trying to do a ‘docker pull’ is a a bad idea. Sometimes I feel the attraction of some spyware mesh system for home networking.
- kregasaurusrex 4y agoIt was terrible, had to resort to reading CLRS in the meantime.
- Normille 4y agoI had to resort to lobste.rs. Still, it gave me a chance to revisit all those stories I read on HN a fortnight ago.
- kregasaurusrex 4y agoI've wanted to re-visit StumbleUpon before it became an ad-ridden shell of its former self. Push button, get random website based on your interests.
- m00x 4y agoGood news, it's up now!
- Semaphor 4y agoIt was pretty horrible. I thought where I’d read about it and couldn’t think of any place that wasn’t down.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoBut the gates is up?
- rexelhoff 4y agoAs one of the people furiously hitting reload, I apologise.
- paradite 4y agoI was able to post an angry tweet about my ISP, then I realized Twitter was working.
- singaporecode 4y agoVery high uptime overall. Credits to PG and his lisp/arc inspired codebase! And to dang (who I assume does a bit of coding on it from time to time from previous comments I have read..sorry if I read wrong)
- theobeers 4y agoThis is one of a few lightweight, reliable sites where any problem makes me assume that my internet connection must somehow have gone awry.
- askonomm 4y agoToday it has been raining heavily, and the only reason I went to my co-working place is because I checked HN in the morning, and figured my internet was down at home because HN didn't work.
- karolist 4y agoI heard from an ISP owner that a common support call was when kids deleted the browser icon on the desktop, the parent thinks internet is down and calls up support. These days almost everyone is using a phone or tablet so it happens less.
- gexla 4y agoRight, HN is the site I check when I'm not sure my connection is working, because it loads so fast. It HN doesn't load, then I'm more likely to walk away from the computer than to check another site.
- moffkalast 4y agoOr there's some hot topic with more than 2 replies that's making the server pull its hair out...
- lostlogin 4y agoI worked a place that used to use ‘is HN up?’ as a proxy for ‘does the internet go?’
- scoot 4y agoTime was I would use sun.com to check if the network was up. These days, like you, I use HN.
- strct 4y agoarchived downforeveryoneorjustme link: https://archive.ph/NRnjs https://archive.ph/NRnjs
- 1-6 4y agoI was playing with my DNS settings and Hackernews was one of the sites I used to test. I picked the wrong day...
- shever73 4y agoDitto! It took me a while to realise my DNS settings were ok.
- lostlogin 4y agoWhat percentage of HN readers are doing recreational DNS configuration at any given time?
- yellowapple 4y agoProbably close to 100%.
- aniijbod 4y agoBut why?
- yellowapple 4y agoTo keep us on our toes.
- spockz 4y agoThe last few weeks I’m continuously getting white pages on dynamic pages: login, profile, comments. What is going on? (Safari, iOS) Things seem to work on Firefox on mobile. Something with internet relay perhaps?
- nonameking2026 4y agoTime to setup up an offline rss reader. Thanks for the reminder hn - you never fail to deliver.
- danuker 4y agoCheck out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424 Search for more: https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/
- zatkin 4y agoI suspect dang was asleep and couldn't tweet about this: https://twitter.com/HNStatus/with_replies https://twitter.com/HNStatus/with_replies
- uncleBobby 4y agoworst seconds of my life
- ImpulseGuided 4y agoBrowsing to HN was the first thing I tried to do this morning after accidentally sleeping in. When it failed to load, my panicked thought was: "Is this how it all ends? Did Putin finally press the red button?"
- jamespwilliams 4y agoI read https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1545259828972584961 https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1545259828972584961, came to HN to see if there was any discussion, then saw HN was down… spooky
- whateveracct 4y agoI noticed! My internet felt slow so I pinged HN since it's my baseline. Bad luck lol.
- robarr 4y agoI am at gmt-5. I cannot sleep, my wife is out of town, I lost mi kindle the day before yesterday and HN was down. If I turn in the lights to read a book I will not sleep for the rest of the night so I listened to our cats fighting over what I assume was some big moth as my only distraction.
- billpg 4y agoAwww, I missed it.
- Normille 4y ago>Awww, I missed it. It was a day that will live in infamy.
- dang 4y agoThe last time we had a hard drive failure, we were down for a couple days. That was early 2013. After that, in the spirit of 'never again', Nick (kogir) set up the failover server system that we still use today. That's why you missed it tonight; you wouldn't have back then. Sorry, I guess? Edit: by pure coincidence, Nick was in town tonight and we met up for the first time in years. Two hours later HN goes down. almost as if the server was overcome by nostalgia
- Trouble_007 4y agoA+ for Timing! - Quantum Entanglement? - The Mind and The Machine.
- yellowapple 4y agoNot to worry; you just got a second chance ;)
- dang 4y agoLooks like a hard drive stopped working. We switched to the failover server. Sorry everyone!
- baxtr 4y agoFor two hours I thought I was finally blocked.
- mikewarot 4y agoWell, that's ok... thanks for being up to fix it. It's not an actual spinning hard drive, is it?
- DonHopkins 4y agoProbably a 2.5 MB one-platter Diablo hard disk drive cartridge running on a restored Xerox Alto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto Diablo Systems Incorporated Series 30 Disk Drive Maintenance Manual http://bitsavers.org/pdf/diablo/disk/model_30/81503-02_Series_30_Disk_Drive_Maintenance_Nov75.pdf http://bitsavers.org/pdf/diablo/disk/model_30/81503-02_Serie... Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 4: What's running on the system (righto.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197591 http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day_31.html http://www.righto.com/2016/07/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-... Xerox Alto Restoration Part 16 - our disk goes down, the Alto connects to Google and draws fractals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEr2aRwHnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEr2aRwHnI Our Diablo disk goes on the fritz, but who needs a disk when you can netboot? Ken demonstrates the Alto network capabilities, connects to Google, and has the Alto calculate and display a Mandlebrot set. Ken's in-depth blog entry including the fractal demo source code is found here: http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-fractal-on.html http://www.righto.com/2017/06/one-hour-mandelbrot-creating-f... Xerox Alto Restoration Part 1 - power supply restoration, disk drive surprise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPyqQXFC2yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPyqQXFC2yw We begin our very gentle and progressive power up of the seminal Xerox Alto. No magic smoke, but one power supply is faulty. Opening it up reveals that it had a tough life, having suffered a catastrophic short of some sort, hastily repaired, and some traces almost entirely corroded through. But the source of the malfunction seems to be a somewhat classic case of bad electrolytic capacitors, way too far gone for any hope of reforming. After replacing them and repairing the supply, we turn our attention to the Diablo disc drive and cartridge, and have a bit of a surprise. Many thanks to my CHM restorers colleagues Ron Crane, Ken Shirriff, Carl Claunch and Luca Severini. See previous video introducing this historically significant machine: https://youtu.be/YupOC_6bfMI https://youtu.be/YupOC_6bfMI For much more details and references, see Ken Shirriff's blog entry corresponding to this video here: http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-alto-day.html http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-... A 1970s disk drive that wouldn't seek: getting our Xerox Alto running again http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldnt-seek.html http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldn... Identify It Challenge for 7-26-2012 Answer https://reinventingscience.wordpress.com/tag/diablo-systems-series-30/ https://reinventingscience.wordpress.com/tag/diablo-systems-... ARTIFACT DETAILS: Series 30 disk drive https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102666942 https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10266694... Description: "Not working cards missing heads may be bad" is handwritten on black marker on a sticker attached to the top of the machine.
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- KindOne 4y agoI just automatically assumed I was having internet issues instead of checking other connections like I usually do when other sites have issues.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoMissed it
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- agnos 4y agoThis caused me a small but concerning amount of anxiety that I'll probably meditate on as I fall asleep now that HN is back up.
- rawoke083600 4y agoAsterix & Obelix:"The sky is falling on our heads" Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died" PlanetEarth:"HN is down" These all seem like the same thing, it just depends where you are in the erm "multiverse" !
- tsimionescu 4y ago> Discworld:"The bottom most turtle died" This absurd inaccuracy cannot stand. There is a single turtle holding up the disk, Great A'Tuin. Now, if you were to claim the bottom-most elephant had died, we could talk!
- rawoke083600 4y agoBut but didn't the lady said it's "Turtles all the way down ?" See cosmology is tricky no matter where you are :D PS. According to historic records (DISCWORLD 1-41) you are right :P
- lostlogin 4y agoIf we (foolishly) ignore the one true source and read the wiki: Stephen Hawking incorporates the saying into the beginning of his 1988 book A Brief History of Time:[20] A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
- rawoke083600 4y agoThis is what the internet was supposed to be ! Correcting the others on how many turtles is holding up everything :D :D Dammit I missed Terry Pratchett :( - The man had a wicked crazy mind and flair to focus it to produce the most amazing stories, scenarios and humour. Like having a "Thieves Guild" - "If you going to have crime you might as well have organised crime" For those that don't know, in this scenario. The Thieves guild" got a 'budget' of how much they can steal per year (?) and if you got robbed the thief would give you a receipt. Oh and any 'unlicensed thieving' was dealt with and 'policed' by the guild itself :)
- highwaylights 4y agoIt's like /r/nosleep, but for nerds. I'm glad I slept through this horror!
- UberFly 4y agoLooks like the 50GB hard drive in the 2008 Dell server at the colocation data center finally gave out.
- zerojames 4y agoWill there be "I survived the Hacker News outage of July 2022" stickers available? :D
- Trouble_007 4y agoLook Out for the merch posts for T-shirts, coffee-mugs and stickers on HN :D
- meq1986 4y agoI visited HN by VPN, when requested failed, I thought my VPN connection was broken... Actually, VPN connection often do not work well in China.
- rendall 4y agoI definitely thought my network was down and was actually confused when other sites were available.
- Woodi 4y agoSame. Posted "Hmm, HN is down ?" on screened somewhere irc session and then jumped to checking my inet connection... Such things should't happen, it confuses peoples ;) And yes, reloading, pinging, other subdomain checkin too :>
- mountainriver 4y agoEnded up on TRUTH social, please don’t let this happen again =P
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