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Curiosity got the better of me. Why was there a 6 ID gap between the last post and first post? The answer seems to be that admins were making posts, which is ne
by sillysaurusx 4y ago
Curiosity got the better of me. Why was there a 6 ID gap between the last post and first post? The answer seems to be that admins were making posts, which is neat. (There was also one lonely Flexport job ad.)
Is your backup system tied to your API? Algolia is a third party service, and streaming the latest HN data to Algolia seems pretty similar to streaming it to a backup system.
- dang 4y agoI posted a bunch of test things and then deleted them.
- scott_s 4y agoI love this answer so much.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoI really wanted to ask “How did you post things if the server was down?” but perhaps some things are better left as mysteries.
- dang 4y agoThe server was up for us before it was up for everybody else.
- O__________O 4y agoYou could see them via HN’s API before they were deleted, nothing interesting; API was back up before the www.
- dang 4y agoGood observation. Posting something and then seeing it show up in the API was one of the things we were testing. It exercises a lot of the code.
- swyx 4y agoi got that Flexport ad too.. haha kinda alarming if they are the only YC company still hiring
- dang 4y agoBtw, job ads get queued long in advance and then the software picks the next one when it's time for a job ad. After 8 hours of being down, the software thought it was time for a job ad.