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Yep. Same. It says a lot about the quality of HN, I think. Also, I can't remember the last time it was down. For a while, I thought there must be something wron
by christophilus 4y ago
Yep. Same. It says a lot about the quality of HN, I think. Also, I can't remember the last time it was down. For a while, I thought there must be something wrong with my internet connection or DNS config or something.
- devonbleak 4y agoMight have tried to curl it from a production system just to make sure it wasn't my internet.
- joncp 4y agoIndeed. I find that it's so reliable and fast that I use it to check my internet connection. If I can't hit HN, then something's wrong on my end.
- 40four 4y agoI assumed at first there was a problem with my mobile data connection, before I realized it was actually HN :)
- huevosabio 4y agoSame here. I thought the my internet was down or I was too far from the router. HN being down was my last thought.
- andrepd 4y agoI use example.com for that purpose :p
- autoexec 4y agoWow, it works, but it really seems like it shouldn't. I'd expected reserved domain names to not resolve at all let alone be pingable and point at a working webserver. Has it always had a website?
- KMnO4 4y agoYes, it’s always existed. It actually belongs to the IANA and if you Whois it you get: RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- jwdunne 4y agoMe too! I was, shamefully, in the middle of work so had a mini panic thinking my 5 min HN scroll was gonna become an hour long battle with my connection!
- butterNaN 4y agoHabitual usage doesn't necessarily correlate to quality, I'd say. People who use Facebook/Twitter also have this sort of muscle reflex developed over time. That said, HN does have quality content and the signal/noise is way better than sites designed specifically to keep you addicted.
- autoexec 4y agoIt might not correlate to quality, but if the information found at a website wasn't valued we wouldn't be constantly pulling the site up, just like facebook users do. I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design and specifically to keep you addicted (where "addicted" means using and constantly returning to the site). This site is just designed to attract people who are put off by the kinds of tricks employed elsewhere
- freemint 4y ago> I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design Or so we tell ourselves.
- hoosieree 4y agoInternal polling shows that we are all here by merit and merit alone!
- stevenjgarner 4y agoI feel the voting process on HN deserves a lot of credit for the quality of front-page content. I wish a knew more about it, other than karma>500 giving the ability to downvote.
- iratewizard 4y agoI think they meant quality from a hardware and ops perspective.
- ijidak 4y agoHaha. A building of ours in Canada lost internet at the same time. When I saw hn was down, I double-checked the news to see if a major part of the internet had gone down.
- hooande 4y agoI bet thousands of people checked their network and DNS settings today. hn is what I use to make sure I have a connection
- rajamaka 4y agoSame here, it used to be google but at some point it still just starting loading with no internet connection.
- Ruphin 4y agoEasy to make sure you're not seeing some cached version by doing a search for random string from mashing your keyboard. These days literally any string of characters shorter than 10 will find some sort of result and there's very little chance you have it cached somehow.
- owl57 4y ago> For a while, I thought there must be something wrong with my internet connection or DNS config or something. Definitely thought the same. Then I realized that I'm browsing trough work VPN and had a second thought: what if our admins decided to fight procrastination?