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Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?
The last three comments posted have been out of character. First some random incomprehensible typing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285936
And then posting the same archive.org link on two several years old articles:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17327039#34286087 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17327039#34286087
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611015#34286089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611015#34286089
Not sure what’s going on.
- guiambros 4y agoUh, this is indeed weird. Hope all is ok. For those curious and without showdead, the first link was posted 1h ago, and shows: "For ok whatfix swaptoAPP blahhhh"
- quenix 4y agoSuper bizarre, doesn't really seem like the behaviour of a hacked account either (those usually use their fifteen seconds of fame to promote cryptocurrency scams or to troll).
- ssiddharth 4y agoIf I were a betting man, I'd probably say either a pocket typing sort of situation (for the latter two) or a kid or animal gallivanting on/around the keyboard for the first.
- aaws11 4y agomaybe he's trying to code some kinda automation and running it on prod and the code is misbehaving. Hope all is ok.
- NhanH 4y agoSeems like production repl access went wrong somehow
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Slighted 4y ago[flagged]
- acqbu 4y agoThere's nothing to worry about guys, he's always been like that. You're simply paying too much attention - new year's goals, eh?
- icpmacdo 4y agoMaybe he uses LastPass
- water8 4y ago[dead]
- anigbrowl 4y agoMescaline, I can tell by some of the pixels and having seen many weird trips in my time
- tgv 4y agoMight be a test in production? The first link is dead now.
- dang 4y agoCorrect. Production is too tempting.
- avinassh 4y agotesting in the production is the true way of testing.
- LinuxBender 4y agoThere are a few variants of t-shirts for this. "I don't always test my code but when I do, I test in production" I knew a director of operations and engineering that wore this shirt which made it funnier. The best and weirdest bugs are found by the public in production.
- acheron 4y agoEveryone has a test environment. Some places also have a production environment.
- LinuxBender 4y agoEveryone has a test environment. Yup, the weird bugs are rarely ever found in the test/dev/staging/qa environments. Sometimes it takes longer to even figure out how to reproduce some odd bug a customer found in Prod. As one example we had one blade server that was causing financial data corruption. The senior java developers and architects debugged java down to the CPU and found 1 CPU core that was making mathematical errors under specific conditions. This would never in a million years have been found in dev, test, staging, QA, pre-prod environments. I was given the instruction by leadership to "drive over the server" in the parking lot as neither upstream OEM's were interesting in debugging it further. Another fun one I ran into was using VLAN tagging on CentOS 5 on specific hardware with a specific NIC of whom shall not be named could get into a situation where partial frames were being transmitted in a loop from the ring buffer at the highest physical packet rate of the NIC which is surprisingly very fast. It brought down the access switches and the very big distribution routers. We debugged it pretty far down but hit a wall when one of the three vendors involved would not sign the 3-way NDA. The NIC was not Intel. Or here is another one. We had a multi-million dollar storage solution that was never needed and in production it caused an IO fencing issue that broke the production databases in a glorious way. That bug would never have been tickled in dev or staging. It required a specific series of failures in the storage that triggered a logic failure on their controller of raid controllers. The vendor should have caught this one. I could probably write a book about all the weird bugs that "should never happen" but only happen under real-world Production use cases.
- dang 4y agoWow you guys don't miss much do you? Two different things were going on here: I was working on some spam filters and posting some test comments to verify some of that. That was 34285936. I posted a few and deleted them but apparently neglected to delete that one. I've done so now. The other two were related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855594, which I sent a repost invite for. I was going through the previous stories about Paul Otlet and noticed that http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-future-of-the-web-is-100-years-old http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-future-of-the-web-... doesn't exist any more - so I posted an archive.org link in those two threads. This will be useful if and when we have a new thread about Otlet's Mundaneum.
- anotherevan 4y agoOf course, if someone was clever enough to hack dang, they'd have a clever cover story prepared...
- rkagerer 4y agoWell, this was a fun thread. Glad to hear all is alright :-).
- bingo-bongo 4y ago..and thx again for all your hard and dedicated work! imho, you are one of the main reasons why HN keeps being a high quality tech forum (which is extremely rare these days on the Internet) - so thx dang!
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y ago> Wow you guys don't miss much do you? That was super-euphemism for 'Wow you guys really don't have better things to do, do you' :D Again, thank you for your great work, one can appreciate it even more in moments like these.
- smcl 4y agoIt's probably just two accidents (making a mistake when pasting a link, then the HN comment equivalent of pocket-dialling) in a row. edit: ah nm, he's posted a comment :D
- adenozine 4y agoWhy was this thread removed from the front page?
- dang 4y agoIt's off topic.
- singularity2001 4y agodang using live environment / account for dev / staging work, just as the rest of us;)
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago"I don't always test my code. But when I do, I test it in production."
- anothernewdude 4y agodang