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HN website is/was down. I'm curious why?
- pottspotts 3y agoAfter some checking, it seems to be an issue with the free Heroku instance they are running.
- baq 3y agoUnderrated comment of the week. Amazing what they squeeze out of a single process architecture.
- tempaccount420 3y agoIt could be impressive, but the website frequently goes down when big news hit. I think they could move it to a more powerful machine and the remaining issues would be fixed. It wouldn't be as big of a flex as running on an ancient Intel CPU though. Edit: I got "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" while trying to send this comment :)
- aniforprez 3y agoLooking at that status page, unless it's completely wrong, there's outages multiple times every month. They really could just upgrade their instance and get more mileage out of it and it wouldn't require any "refactoring". Site's mostly fine as is
- sofixa 3y agoAmazing... yes, but there are also obvious drawbacks. Take a look at any big thread that has manual and clunky pagination on it, or the site being down because a single provider or disk crapped out. Totally acceptable and fine things depending on the scale of what you're trying to achieve, and especially so for a free website... but it can definitely be better (no, I'm not talking about microservices in Kubernetes on the Edge in the Cloud powered by AI).
- getwiththeprog 3y agoBest site on the net and a bunch of google and apple techs want to 'fix' it.
- hot_gril 3y agoWhat's the reason for the single process arch, just don't have time/money to scale up?
- MyFirstSass 3y agoWould like to know their compute and bandwidth usage. The front page is ~7 kilobytes on reload, and ~20 on first load - such a good example of "less is more".
- robtaylor 3y agoHN is down for me.
- sgammon 3y agolol
- marmshallow 3y agodown for me too
- TheHumanist 3y agoHello? Can anybody hear me?!
- jskrablin 3y agoNo.
- SamSkjord 3y ago£20 says it was DNS
- not_your_vase 3y ago> Why? It wasn't written in rust.
- that_guy_iain 3y agoThat they didn't start original development in Rust is beyond me /s
- vocram 3y agoSomebody is going to do a rewrite in Rust and call it “simply”
- mikkom 3y agoErlang you mean?
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- Aachen 3y agoA common typo. The keys are like right next to each other. Which I suppose is a reference to another website that is down. Bash.org still hasn't resurfaced :(
- thatwasunusual 3y agoAlso, it's not serverless. /s
- WJW 3y agoIt was for a little bit though. That is why this thread is here!
- edanm 3y agoHN is actually one of the only (or the only?) websites that is written in an entirely new programming language. Just wanted to mention that.
- pelagicAustral 3y agoOh well, I cant start the day now.
- jgilias 3y agoGoing back to sleep then?
- quadral 3y agoI wouldn't be using Hackernews if it wasn't for the community and moderation. This website is terribly bad: - UX/UI is terrible and not user friendly - Infrastructure and the code is like COBOL from the 80s - No notifications when someone replies to your comment - Profile section is non-existent - API is just as bad as the website I could go on with the list, but you get the idea... for a website which receives millions of visitors, it's a shame that it's so bad.
- meheleventyone 3y agoThe UX and the lack of notifications are part of the reason I really like it!
- boredemployee 3y ago2nd that. no need of tricks for "user retention", the content is so good that we keep coming by our own.
- dzdt 3y agoI think many of the things you identify as flaws are actually strengths of this site. The minimalist text-only gui IS very usable for discussion, and forces that the focus is on the discussion. I think for instance adding images to posts or comments would make the site worse, as images serve to attract and focus attention away from discussion. But the discussion here is the point! The minimal profile sections are also a feature. This account is not your digital homepage. It is a place people go for discussion. A bigger focus on your profile would be a step towards use of the site as brand-building which favors attention-whoring over quality discussion. Again, the focus is on reducing frictions to people to contribute to quality discussion, and avoiding dynamics that might supplant this.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoSome features would still be nice, like to know when someone has responded to you.
- caifeizhi1990 3y ago[dead]
- Perenti 3y ago12:01 AM on the 12th of the 12th. Coincidences are cool
- GTP 3y agoIlluminati confirmed
- Xenoamorphous 3y agoFirst thing I thought was "well there must have been some huge news and HN has collapsed".
- firtoz 3y agoThe huge news is that HN was down
- willvarfar 3y ago"BREAKING: In a surprise move, the OpenAI board have ... {$drama}" :)
- probably_wrong 3y ago... replaced the entire board with HN comments. From now on, all decisions will be made by ChatGPT5, posted on a regular "Who wants to lead OpenAI?" thread, and upvotes will decide which ones are implemented.
- willvarfar 3y ago... and upvotes will be weighed and taken into account in the auto summarisation and sentiment analysis?
- gryn 3y agocan't imagine all the mayhem that would bring to site. poor dang would see his workload x100
- wjnc 3y agoYou're recycling the playbook of one of those crypto schemes. That's ancient history. Modernity asks for several LLM (Mistral, Llama 2, ChatGPT5) deciding which output is best and following that course. Typing parrots all the way down.
- marginalia_nu 3y ago"Elon Musk has acquired Y Combinator and swiftly fired dang and renamed it X Combinator."
- marginalia_nu 3y agoPhew, this was almost a ridiculously productive day.
- bayindirh 3y agoHonestly, yes!
- sgammon 3y agoIt’s been up so long I thought it was my internet.
- TheHumanist 3y agohaha same. turned off VPN, tried again, just to check. Reset router too. Couldn't be HN, must be me and mine
- thatwasunusual 3y agoIs Hacker News _the only_ site you visit? :)
- FridgeSeal 3y agoNo, but since Reddit gimped Apollo, it’s up there, higher than I like.
- seanw444 3y agoSame here. HN + a few RSS feeds now. Reddit without Infinity is no Reddit for me.
- fHr 3y agoSame, before my daily standup I usually quickly hop on HN, was fully convinced my net was down.
- 123sereusername 3y ago[dead]
- binocarlos 3y agoI use hacker news as my "is my Internet working" test - it's fast and always up (kudos) So yes, I also thought my Internet was broken :-)
- Trellmor 3y agoHacker News Status @HNStatus on Twitter/X [0]: Networking issues at our hosting provider. Sorry! Hoping to be back up soon [0] https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1734502529134989649 https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1734502529134989649
- lofties 3y agoHNStatus on Mastodon when? :-)
- AlchemistCamp 3y agoHopefully not before it's on Farcaster, which actually has sufficient decentralization without sacrificing a global name registry ;)
- dredmorbius 3y agoThe Fediverse has a global name registry. Your instance-name is part of that. (That is, names are globally unique. They may not always be findable, but for a sufficiently federated profile, searching from a sufficiently federated instance, that shouldn't be a hurdle. And I strongly suspect third-party directories will emerge.)
- AlchemistCamp 3y agoThe problem (other than disastrous security concerns stemming from server admins being able to read everyone's DMs) with Mastadon and similar is that once you move to another instance, your username changes. With Farcaster, user names are both decentralized and global.
- dredmorbius 3y agoGotchya. Having migrated a few times (both before and after official support for this existed), I'm aware of the Fediverse's non-portable namespace issues, and some way of resolving that would be useful.
- gabrielfernado 3y ago[dead]
- bjord 3y agohonestly, I thought it was blocked in my country—glad that wasn't the case
- burgerrito 3y agoI won't be surprised if that happened in my country's internet. My country one day blocked Reddit out of nowhere, without clear reason, almost a decade ago. It's still not clear why, to this day.
- okasaki 3y agoProbably the huge amounts of porn and prostitution that reddit hosts.
- Semaphor 3y agoWell, this made me realize that downforeveryoneorjustme.com is useless, because HN was down from multiple servers, but dfeojm happily claimed it was up, only later changed it to down, not sure when, but at least 10 minutes after it started.
- Titan2189 3y agoURL is way too long. https://isup.me/ https://isup.me/
- jerbear4328 3y agoOr https://downfor.io https://downfor.io for the short link Though, for pure power, I prefer https://jsdelivr.com/globalping https://jsdelivr.com/globalping to do an HTTP ping, easily check from like 100 different locations worldwide live. It also does a great job at helping you know if it's just slow in your area or worldwide or whatever.
- burgerrito 3y agoIt just gone back up now for me. I don't even know how OP or other users here even managed to create replies.
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- numpad0 3y agoThe level of intelligence of the whole world has been on a boat ramp for few years.
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- dandanua 3y agoIn other news, the biggest Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar is down due to a hacker attack. Coincidence?
- ilyazub 3y agoMonobank was under attack as well: https://t.me/s/OGoMono/1456 https://t.me/s/OGoMono/1456
- GaryNumanVevo 3y agoI wonder if @dang is going to refund my HN+ subscription for this month because of the outage?
- schappim 3y agoEspecially since the lack of new content after submitters strike…
- superduperer 3y ago[dead]
- ralfd 3y agoThere is a subscription? Does it filter out the ads?
- idiotsecant 3y agoOnly the prerolls.
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- foobarian 3y agoThere is a B2B subscription as well, it rate limits the site during business hours.
- lopis 3y agoIt gives you access to original content (e.g. spam that has been removed) and you'll see posts 5 minutes before everyone else.
- znpy 3y agoI've got the 'premium plus' subscription tier and I can see new posts before they're posted.
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoI use HackerNews to check if my internet is OK. I'm sure even with this incident it has better uptime than Github, Gitlab and quite a few other services from major cloud providers / companies.
- gunapologist99 3y agoHN is a modern scalable multi-AZ, multi-region, multi-cloud Kubernetes edge worker Docker serverless lambda IoT paradigm SPA web 2.0 blockchain AI architecture (OCI) and certainly doesn't get those kind of reliability numbers from being a carefully watched server under dang's desk. https://twitter.com/danieldibswe/status/1169485819993841664 https://twitter.com/danieldibswe/status/1169485819993841664 Kubernetes. We've come so far since the 90's.
- gunapologist99 3y agoPoe's law strikes again. HN, StackOverflow, Hey.com/Basecamp, Lichess and probably many others that I'm not remembering or aren't famous run mostly or exclusively on real iron. We don't need buzzword bingo to build reliable, internet-scalable systems, especially when a hiccup occurs so rarely that it's news when it does happen.
- ShamelessC 3y agoI keep seeing these comments, but in my experience hacker news has minor outages several times per year. That’s not counting massive slowdowns from big stories.
- BossingAround 3y ago`ping 1.1` is so much faster check these days...
- Titan2189 3y agoThanks, I never knew this resolves. I guess similar to IPv6 :: ?
- VoodooJuJu 3y agoI've noticed this happening more frequently. It really ramped up about a month ago with the whole Sam Altman leaving Open AI situation and the articles that spawned. I wonder - is HN going to upgrade its infrastructure because of these outages?
- ttoinou 3y agoA closing parenthesis was missing in its Lisp source code. Took 3 hours and 9 engineers to find where
- biztos 3y agoCouldn’t they just add one at the end?
- bayindirh 3y agoIt opens the gates of hell and corruption! Since every parenthesis has its own & unique match, you need to find the one missing its other half, and add the correct one to the correct place. Every parenthesis in Lisp world is unique like a snowflake, and they come in pairs.
- rytis 3y ago> every parenthesis has its own & unique match I think you just discovered parenthesis entanglement theory :)
- alex_young 3y agoParenthetically, parenthetical entanglement is consistent with duality, so at least our theories are consistent at a grand scale and do not necessitate any unified field theory (at this point).
- _boffin_ 3y agoNo rainbowbrackets in their IDE I take it?
- bayindirh 3y agoThey are probably using VT320s from some remote/hidden locations. I don't expect a state of the art gigabit satellite connection on a remote island. Unless their foundation air-dropped them a couple of Starlink units alongside their seasonal food and goods supply run.
- whoomp12341 3y agoCode was compiling
- WhereIsTheTruth 3y agoThat's the nicest status page I ever seen, good job whoever built this
- aws_ls 3y agoThanks to hckrnews.com site for such times. You can at least read the top articles directly.
- jrhey 3y agoThere's also hazumi.news that I made which doesn't go down when HN goes down, here's this post on there: https://www.hazumi.news/posts/38610912 https://www.hazumi.news/posts/38610912
- dredmorbius 3y agoI'd like to request HN also post its status messages to the Fediverse given Birdsite's increasingly unstable and untenable status and leadership.
- big_paps 3y agoI am curious how this event could create curiosity in some people.. this is like the last thing imaginable to be interesting