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Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?
As the title says, curious if anyone else in here is experiencing a slightly slower HN. I'd say I started noticing it a couple of hours ago. Maybe it's because of so much stuff happening recently (OpenAI, FB layoffs etc) and the website not handling the load well?
- cvhashim04 4y agoStupidly slow
- LightMachine 4y agoπ’π²π·π°πΎπ΅πͺπ»π²π½π π²πΌ π¬πΈπΆπ²π·π°
- buildbot 4y agoI noticed this just now, and reddit seems to be down for me as well.
- terramex 4y agoIt looks like there is a pretty big outage everywhere right now: https://downdetector.com https://downdetector.com I checked AWS, Azure and Google Cloud status websites but no outage reported anywhere.
- reducesuffering 4y agoWow it's like the entire internet is having problems, PG&E electricity went down, Comcast internet went down. I won't be surprised when GPT6 is announced and 10 mins later civilization just sort of ends...
- AviationAtom 4y agoThe worst is when DownDetector goes down though...
- gumby 4y agoHow bad, really? When that happens it's not like they report that DownDetector is up...
- andrewinardeer 4y agoTwitter, remarkably, is fine.
- kenhwang 4y agoTwitter runs their own datacenters, so they should be isolated from what looks like an issue with a cloud provider. Likely AWS, given Reddit, EA, Expedia, Hyatt, Patreon, and especially Chime and Amazon itself are all reported to be having issues and they're all well known AWS customers.
- consumer451 4y agoI know you mean the ops, but the content is far from fine. Search for Ukraine, especially while signed out. At least for me, the results are mostly obvious propaganda with fake stories of Ukrainians with Nazi flags mixed with half naked Asian women. It's almost like some of the non-devs actually did something prior to Musk.
- sixothree 4y agoThatβs not what Iβm seeing on those graphs.
- GalenErso 4y agoHypothesis no 1: Nation state level cyberattack Hypothesis no 2: Some undersea cables got cut (nation state or other) Hypothesis no 3: Buried fiber optic cables got cut (nation state or other; I recall reading about Russian spies mapping optic cable networks on US soil)
- 98codes 4y agoLooking like AWS is having issues: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
- ren_engineer 4y agoUS and Russia had a drone and jet collide today, could be a state level attack and escalation of things? Seems to be a lot of physical infrastructure companies with outages
- yamtaddle 4y agoI always get a sinking feeling in my stomach when a news or news messageboard site fails to load, or is very slow. Guess that's because of 9/11.
- hot_gril 4y agoThe chance that someone screwed up a config is a lot higher than a state-level attack. A few years ago, I remember people blaming Iran for a GCP outage that was really just "The Mayan Apocalypse" (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//static/pdf/Anatomy_Of_An_Incident.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st...) and Mexico wasn't to blame either
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- bluetidepro 4y agoYes, it's slow and timing out for me (getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" message). Reddit is also currently down with "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers." Wonder if it's a CDN that they both use that is stalling them out?
- LinuxBender 4y agoYes, slow to log in, slow to view threads logged in. [Edit] Also slow to post or edit posts.
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- 8589934591 4y agoYes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.
- safeimp 4y agoSame. First assumption is AWS but not seeing related reports.
- samtho 4y agoAWS historically has had issues detecting if itself is having issues.
- bombcar 4y agoReminds me of when Slashdot would go down, and all the slashdot-like sites would immediately fold under the excess traffic. Same here, if reddit goes down, everyone goes to other time-wasters like HN and those begin to get overloaded.
- jedberg 4y agoMy very first job out of school included running sendmail.org. Rule number one was "make sure we can handle all of Slashdot's traffic".
- bombcar 4y agoAh, back when major sites would fail to a slashdotting and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine.
- jedberg 4y ago> and someone running freeBSD with a text-only site would survive just fine. Haha yep! That was our trick! FreeBSD FTW. That box ended up having an uptime over 1000 days before we had to power it down to move it.
- evil-olive 4y agoscheduled maintenance happening in a few Cloudflare datacenters: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ no idea if it's related but the timelines match up, if load-shifting away from those datacenters caused a cascading failure of some kind
- swayvil 4y agoYes. Slow to load. Slow to add comment. Also reddit is down.
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- messutied 4y agoYep, quite slow for me (EU).
- recuter 4y agoWe are presently busy refreshing like mad due to panic attacks about the impending collapse of civilization to chatbots. The singularity is upon us! Take these blissful moments of downtime as an opportunity to repent sinners, for soon the AIs will be hitting f5 on humanity itself. They have risen! ..ββ πΈβββ, α΅’ββ ᡦβπΈβ. βββπ, πΈβᡣᡣᡧ ββ.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoWow, slow even when logged out. Must be under crushing request load.
- psnehanshu 4y agoQuite slow for me + reddit is down
- eqmvii 4y agoYes. And reddit is down. And GitHub is being slow.
- mman0114 4y agoGithub has been slow for me for weeks
- nicoburns 4y agoHN always gets slow when there is a single post that gets a large number of comments. Currently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154527 fits that criteria.
- cesarb 4y agoI (jokingly) had thought to myself "GPT-4 is probably to blame for all the outages today". Who thought that it would be true, at least for this one!
- sbate1987 4y agoslow on east coast
- tpoacher 4y agon...o... d...o...n...t... ...b...e... ...r...i...d...i...c...u...l...o...u...s
- jedberg 4y agoThere are two threads on the front page right now with 500+ comments, which always slows it down.
- sitkack 4y agoThat is because each post is a file on disk?
- jedberg 4y agoI don't know how HN is built, but given its history in Arc, my guess is that the data structure that holds comment threads isn't optimized for a ton of branching. Threads with that many comments don't happen very often, so it's probably a low priority fix.
- KomoD 4y agoYes, loading this page took 10 seconds.
- cleandreams 4y agosometimes I wonder what havoc would break loose if we ever had a serious conflict with China.
- mywittyname 4y agoThey should strive to keep Reddit et al going, since the quickest way to mobilize the country is to take away our entertainment.
- handsclean 4y agoFor those who donβt know, you can usually log out as a workaround.
- noncoml 4y agoIt has been raining all day where I am(California), and it kind of felt natural that everything should be a bit slower...
- EMM_386 4y agoI blame OpenAI and GPT-4's release for bringing down HN and Reddit.
- fattybob 4y agoYup, but am also wondering for its issues with my browser - kagi as itβs locking up frequently too!!
- sitkack 4y agoIt has been slow on and off for me for a couple days, I assumed it was just Century Link.
- dang 4y agoYes, sorry. It's painful. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344. If you want to make it fast and you don't need to comment or upvote, you can log out (edit: or use an incognito tab - thanks Aachen!). That has the side effect of reducing server load too. I absolutely hate having to tell people that, but it's true.
- Aachen 4y agoFwiw, I haven't had any issues, it was normal earlier today and also all great at the moment! Thanks a lot for keeping this going :) Regarding the phasing "log out", as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157369, I would suggest recommending "a private navigation window where you're not logged in instead". I don't know if log-in/outs are a burden at all, but at least that would be nicer for usability.
- dang 4y agoOh that's a good idea because then people wouldn't have to log back in again later. Thanks!
- e12e 4y agoWould love to see a short post mortem / status update - like: what kind of single core does hn run on (dedicated/vm - new/old)? What kind of uplink? I assume it's still flat files in a single process - might write-sharding help?
- sargstuff 4y agoWonder if there's an HN technical report/analysis on recomputing/building hash functions[0] vs. faster flash[1][2]. [0] : https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-method-hash-function-online-databases-0313 https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-method-hash-function-online-da... [1] : https://news.mit.edu/2018/device-allows-personal-computer-process-huge-graphs-0531 https://news.mit.edu/2018/device-allows-personal-computer-pr... [2] https://news.mit.edu/2014/storage-system-for-big-data-dramatically-speeds-access-to-information-0131 https://news.mit.edu/2014/storage-system-for-big-data-dramat...
- dt3ft 4y agoYes (Sweden). And if Reddit outage affects you and while you're waiting for Reddit to come back online, why not try an alternative, developed by yours truly: https://flingup.com https://flingup.com
- ss48 4y agoYeah, I found out it was handling better when I was not logged in compared to when I was logged in.