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YC Library
- orliesaurus 3y agoI am sure we can find a company in the YC Library that can help with the traffic spike
- samstave 3y ago[flagged]
- benatkin 3y agoycombinator.com giving itself the hug of death =) Edit: it's loading now. Great resource!
- atleastoptimal 3y agoDDoS, the D stands for DDoS
- snowmaker 3y agoWe got the hug of death, thanks HN! Working on improving load times :)
- sillysaurusx 3y agoI once took down HN by submitting /topcolors. The moment it reached the front page, HN ground to a halt. I quickly fired off an email to sctb who cleared it up within a minute or two (by wiping it off the front page, not by fixing the caching, which is totally valid), otherwise it could have taken much longer to figure out what had happened. Caching is a hard thing to get right. I try to use “vegeta attack” to load test pages as I make them, but the measurement is the problem. Unless you already have a profiling pipeline set up, it’s a bit hard to fix the issue quickly. One trick is to comment out half the site in a binary fashion until it suddenly loads, then keep bisecting until it stops loading. It’s crude but only takes log(n) steps and can be done quickly. You’d have to do it in production, but it might be easier than guessing.
- lxe 3y agoA self DDoS! Neat!
- kinduff 3y agoIt hurt itself in confusion! Here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.ycombinator.com/library https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.ycombinator.com/li...
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIt’s poetic that the only content which survived the archiving process was the text. (The videos seem dead, though I didn’t try many.)
- sandslash 3y agohah!
- rabbits_2002 3y agoisnt there already a podcast called Office Hours with Tim Heidecker
- zvmaz 3y agoHow come Hacker News rarely is down although the traffic seems to be huge?
- consumer451 3y agoBecause HN serves only text(html & css) with no javascript. (edit: a tiny amount of efficient js) Frontpage right now = 35.67KB This page is currently 18.34KB. It's one of the only interesting sites left on the web that is 100% usable on 2G (EDGE) mobile data.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoI assure you, this isn’t the reason. And I’m saying that as someone who once put all their effort into maintaining a clone of HN, mostly out of curiosity. HN is the most responsive message board in the world. And by responsive I mean you feel the effect of upvotes and downvotes instantly. There is caching, but almost none of it is at the expense of the feel of the site. This is unlike Reddit, where although votes do have a quick effect, the algorithm is much simpler and less sensitive to sudden shifts in public opinion. On HN you can win and lose debates in a matter of minutes, and it’s thanks to the responsiveness that large websites seem not to have.
- notRobot 3y agoHN is usable without JS, but is served with JS scripts by default.
- consumer451 3y agoOh wow, I could have swore... thanks. Still though, just 4 pages of js. I guess what I was thinking is typical insane tracking framework and tracking stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIf only people would stop underestimating how hard those four pages of js are. If you study it carefully you’ll notice some real time reloading type stuff for /newest, because it’s so important for finding good stories when you’re wading through hundreds. You can just click hide and see the next story instead of having to go from one page to the next. The smallness is evidence of skill, not (merely) simplicity.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoRelated blog post about this launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176712