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Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad-jokes https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://ww
by gnicholas 3y ago
Hugged to death?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fatherhood.gov/for-dads/dad-jokes https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...
- blondin 3y agowhat a missed opportunity to utilize http status code 418
- gabrielsroka 3y agoI got a 504
- selimthegrim 3y agoWould that this area code was associated with responsible fatherhood.
- mmaunder 3y agoVerified as gov site.
- beanjuiceII 3y agoYa you can tell a govt site when it falls over from a finger flick
- eek2121 3y agoNah, the US govt is actually usually pretty good these days about solid infrastructure, website designs, security practices, etc. It is unknown why this particular website (if it ever existed?) got hugged to death, but much of the Government uses AWS govcloud and similar solutions.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoSeconded. At this particular point in my career “govcloud” sounds like a normal word. Our project has an overbuilt but robust cloud native architecture (even if I’m not a cloud services evangelist myself) that I think would surprise many folks in the private sector regarding its sophistication. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a lot of waste, inefficiency, and BS in government contracting. But some aspects of it are getting better. In our case, we were explicitly told by our “customer” to allocate more resources to scaling than we may in the private sector so that our application would not get hugged to death.
- edm0nd 3y agoFedRAMP vetted sites and vendors still get hacked too tho
- beanjuiceII 3y agoeh i disagree, I've been in govt IT for 16 years working as a group that supports all agencies. I would definitely not say "much of the Government uses aws govcloud and similar solutions" but thats just my experience
- abirch 3y agoYou know someone said that there will never be more than 100 requests per second in a meeting
- SushiHippie 3y agoNext meeting: "our page went down because of a hacker attack!!"
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- xattt 3y ago“Well, Sir, they do call themselves Hacker News.”
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- morkalork 3y agoYup and you know what? That's exactly the kind of detail I don't need a government IT worker sweating over. They should just pay the premium to cloud providers and move on to more important things
- hamandcheese 3y agoI could not disagree more. Government already suffers a huge stigma of waste and overspending, no need to add to that stigma by overspending on checks notes a list of dad jokes. That's not to say I'm not glad this exists - I am! But I don't think it deserves a large budget.
- morkalork 3y agoJust toss the page into a pool that should be served to the public. No need to advance SOTA on a government budget to serve content.
- yieldcrv 3y agoCertified DHHS
- dylan604 3y agoAfter clicking through a few, its kind of timely to go with today's other post about how random is random.
- julesallen 3y agoRedesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed. Before the three-step one pager it was a UX that only a mother could love on payday. The bigger problem was every time it would end up on somewhere like Yahoo finance (don't laugh, this was 2007 and earlier) it would fall over like this database. The key to scaling it seems pretty obvious today, write all the searchable data out to a single JSON file and have the browser poll that. It was doing multiple millions of user sessions a day I was told and couldn't have been deployed at a better time. Some projects you get lucky with I suppose. I check it out every once in a while and the UX is basically still the same.
- gottorf 3y agoSounds like you're in a good position to make a lot of people's dreams come true: could you make the TreasuryDirect webapp not so terrible to use? :-)
- jdewerd 3y agoMy prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.
- gottorf 3y agoThat was infernal indeed, but the rest of it still needs a ton of work. Accidentally double-click on a link? Goodbye, session!
- ericrallen 3y agoI can’t remember if I’ve ever encountered a UI that annoyed me as much as that virtual password entry. I ended up getting locked out of my account due to some issue trying to enter what my password manager generated for me and eventually just gave up on ever converting the one small paper bond I was given as a kid to a digital one. If the goal was to frustrate people away from converting paper bonds, they certainly succeeded.
- ashton314 3y agoActually a feature designed to prevent depletion of the strategic pun reserve.
- daemonologist 3y agoI was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from-the-front-page-of-hackernews/ https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from... In their case traffic peaked just under 10000 requests per hour. (RoyalSloth's blog survived the hug while hosted on Hetzner's smallest 1 vCPU instance.)
- gnicholas 3y agoI was on the cheapest plan Heroku offers when my startup hit #1. Things got sluggish so I had to spin up another dyno, but it was fine after that. Of course things depend heavily on time of day and day of week. Since it's currently the holidays in much of the world, things could be slower than normal.