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HN search engine now shows Google's 404 error page

41 points by gslin 3y ago

gslin 3y ago
Also screenshoted at https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algolia.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algoli... and https://archive.ph/JLqBo https://archive.ph/JLqBo
- boneitis 3y ago
  What a day to forget my wallet at home. I wonder if this is preventing me from adding my card to GPay, because I am getting this exact error.
  - Joker_vD 3y ago
    That's why I always have a couple of notes shoved in a back pocket of my pants; I haven't once forgotten to put my pants on when leaving home (yet)!
petercooper 3y ago
It's returning a certificate for *.a.run.app rather than hn.algolia.com for some reason. I dug around a bit and you can (temporarily?) use this to access it: https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/ https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/ Edit: And it's back! Edit 2: And it's gone again!
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Faaak 3y ago
I hope this service doesn't die as it's a really good search for HN comments
- theolivenbaum 3y ago
  If you need an alternative, we host one at https://hn.curiosity.ai https://hn.curiosity.ai
  - stronglikedan 3y ago
    I think we may have broke it. I get an "Unavailable" message. Kudos, nonetheless.
TacoSteemers 3y ago
Apparently *.run.app domains are using something called Google Hosted, and that is how a Google 404 page came up.
causeisunknown 3y ago
It is my daily go-to page to check HN. I hope it will be fixed soon.
makestuff 3y ago
I was testing out something and ran into this issue yesterday as well. I created a cname to point to http://ip.jsontest.com/ http://ip.jsontest.com/ so I could validate my DNS was working. For some reason I was getting the google 404 page.
- danpalmer 3y ago
  That would be because that site is hosted on a Google service, but depends on the hostname to figure out which customer/backend to use. This is normal for any multi-tenant hosting. Your CNAME is not registered for that application in the hosting service's database and therefore they can't tell what it's for. Remember that a CNAME isn't a redirect or anything, there's literally no way for the receiving webserver to know the domain that was CNAME'd in these sorts of requests.
justinclift 3y ago
Seems ok now, at least when browsing HN from Australia.
mattmaroon 3y ago
Kind of strange how it’s been something like 17 years and HN still doesn’t have useful search built in. But also I guess kinda cool that you can build something that is popular for decades with little up no updates.
- rollcat 3y ago
  Sometimes software is just done. HN is pretty close to perfect. The only things I'd change are cosmetic (dark mode, better mobile CSS, etc).
  - Brian_K_White 3y ago
    I think as long as dupe posts are not desired, and there is no search to find dupes before posting, that it can't be called done.
dang 3y ago
They're working on a new deployment and cert stuff probably got left off the list, as many of us (raising hand) can attest it sometimes does. It'll get fixed.

41 points by gslin 3y ago

Also screenshoted at https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algolia.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algoli... and https://archive.ph/JLqBo https://archive.ph/JLqBo

boneitis 3y ago
What a day to forget my wallet at home. I wonder if this is preventing me from adding my card to GPay, because I am getting this exact error.
- Joker_vD 3y ago
  That's why I always have a couple of notes shoved in a back pocket of my pants; I haven't once forgotten to put my pants on when leaving home (yet)!

petercooper 3y ago

It's returning a certificate for *.a.run.app rather than hn.algolia.com for some reason. I dug around a bit and you can (temporarily?) use this to access it: https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/ https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/ Edit: And it's back! Edit 2: And it's gone again!

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Faaak 3y ago

I hope this service doesn't die as it's a really good search for HN comments

theolivenbaum 3y ago
If you need an alternative, we host one at https://hn.curiosity.ai https://hn.curiosity.ai
- stronglikedan 3y ago
  I think we may have broke it. I get an "Unavailable" message. Kudos, nonetheless.

TacoSteemers 3y ago

Apparently *.run.app domains are using something called Google Hosted, and that is how a Google 404 page came up.

causeisunknown 3y ago

It is my daily go-to page to check HN. I hope it will be fixed soon.

makestuff 3y ago

I was testing out something and ran into this issue yesterday as well. I created a cname to point to http://ip.jsontest.com/ http://ip.jsontest.com/ so I could validate my DNS was working. For some reason I was getting the google 404 page.

danpalmer 3y ago
That would be because that site is hosted on a Google service, but depends on the hostname to figure out which customer/backend to use. This is normal for any multi-tenant hosting. Your CNAME is not registered for that application in the hosting service's database and therefore they can't tell what it's for. Remember that a CNAME isn't a redirect or anything, there's literally no way for the receiving webserver to know the domain that was CNAME'd in these sorts of requests.

justinclift 3y ago

Seems ok now, at least when browsing HN from Australia.

mattmaroon 3y ago

Kind of strange how it’s been something like 17 years and HN still doesn’t have useful search built in. But also I guess kinda cool that you can build something that is popular for decades with little up no updates.

rollcat 3y ago
Sometimes software is just done. HN is pretty close to perfect. The only things I'd change are cosmetic (dark mode, better mobile CSS, etc).
- Brian_K_White 3y ago
  I think as long as dupe posts are not desired, and there is no search to find dupes before posting, that it can't be called done.

dang 3y ago

They're working on a new deployment and cert stuff probably got left off the list, as many of us (raising hand) can attest it sometimes does. It'll get fixed.