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Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?

Jtsummers 4y ago
Some very busy front page discussions. That tends to slow things down until dang steps in and lowers the number of comments per page. Log out (or use private mode) if you just want to read it and it'll hit the cache and be much faster.
- dang 4y ago
  All true.
jasonnchann 4y ago
yes
JLCarveth 4y ago
Yes, it's been taking 10-11 seconds each request for me.
pamoroso 4y ago
Yes.
mfrw 4y ago
I wandered off to check my internet/DNS. It is indeed very slow as of now.
xrayarx 4y ago
Confirm!
jshchnz 4y ago
Only seems to be slow when I'm logged in...
- btgeekboy 4y ago
  IIRC there’s a cache for logged out users; you’re not hitting the backend app.
PopAlongKid 4y ago
Yes. I just got this when trying to submit a comment. Hacker News We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!
antidnan 4y ago
yes
sssspss 4y ago
Veen 4y ago
Yeah, slow over the last hour or so. I thought it was a problem on my end, but it seems not.
dang 4y ago
Yes. Sorry. Working on it. One of these years we'll get better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002228
- jshchnz 4y ago
  thanks for all your hard work keeping HN alive and well!
- gavinhoward 4y ago
  Funny link, especially if you notice what the title is! I'm curious though: what sort of synchronization does HN use? It seems like HN could benefit from RCU (read copy update) because it can be super fast and can have great throughput. Its biggest cost is sometimes reading outdated data, which doesn't seem that big in the context of HN.
  - toast0 4y ago
    As I recall, HN is single threaded, so there's no synchronization.
- I_complete_me 4y ago
  Sorry. Do you have something to apologize for?
  - dang 4y ago
    being canadian
- sargstuff 4y ago
  dang > "...es. Sorry. Working on it ..." Guess Kiro in original thread finally got a reply / test case.
rozenmd 4y ago
The API had a sub-minute outage a few hours ago, otherwise nothing that shows up on uptime monitoring: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
eyelidlessness 4y ago
Got faster a few minutes after I showed up. You’re welcome?
eimrine 4y ago
For me HN is the fastest website I know. When I want to test my Internet connection I open HN because if the connection available but it is really bad (there are so in Ukraine nowadays) then HN is that kind of website which has some chances to be loaded.
- thejammahimself 4y ago
  Its how a website should be in my opinion. The only real complaint you could have with Hacker News is that maybe the font is too small but you can just fix that by using the zoom function on your browser.
indigodaddy 4y ago
Seems all good now but was slow earlier yes..
AtNightWeCode 4y ago
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Some very busy front page discussions. That tends to slow things down until dang steps in and lowers the number of comments per page. Log out (or use private mode) if you just want to read it and it'll hit the cache and be much faster.

dang 4y ago
All true.

jasonnchann 4y ago

yes

JLCarveth 4y ago

Yes, it's been taking 10-11 seconds each request for me.

pamoroso 4y ago

Yes.

mfrw 4y ago

I wandered off to check my internet/DNS. It is indeed very slow as of now.

xrayarx 4y ago

Confirm!

jshchnz 4y ago

Only seems to be slow when I'm logged in...

btgeekboy 4y ago
IIRC there’s a cache for logged out users; you’re not hitting the backend app.

PopAlongKid 4y ago

Yes. I just got this when trying to submit a comment. Hacker News We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!

antidnan 4y ago

yes

sssspss 4y ago

Veen 4y ago

Yeah, slow over the last hour or so. I thought it was a problem on my end, but it seems not.

dang 4y ago

Yes. Sorry. Working on it. One of these years we'll get better. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002228

jshchnz 4y ago
thanks for all your hard work keeping HN alive and well!
gavinhoward 4y ago
Funny link, especially if you notice what the title is! I'm curious though: what sort of synchronization does HN use? It seems like HN could benefit from RCU (read copy update) because it can be super fast and can have great throughput. Its biggest cost is sometimes reading outdated data, which doesn't seem that big in the context of HN.
- toast0 4y ago
  As I recall, HN is single threaded, so there's no synchronization.
I_complete_me 4y ago
Sorry. Do you have something to apologize for?
- dang 4y ago
  being canadian
sargstuff 4y ago
dang > "...es. Sorry. Working on it ..." Guess Kiro in original thread finally got a reply / test case.

rozenmd 4y ago

The API had a sub-minute outage a few hours ago, otherwise nothing that shows up on uptime monitoring: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/

eyelidlessness 4y ago

Got faster a few minutes after I showed up. You’re welcome?

eimrine 4y ago

For me HN is the fastest website I know. When I want to test my Internet connection I open HN because if the connection available but it is really bad (there are so in Ukraine nowadays) then HN is that kind of website which has some chances to be loaded.

thejammahimself 4y ago
Its how a website should be in my opinion. The only real complaint you could have with Hacker News is that maybe the font is too small but you can just fix that by using the zoom function on your browser.

indigodaddy 4y ago

Seems all good now but was slow earlier yes..

AtNightWeCode 4y ago

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