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It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they
by bayindirh 3y ago
It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet.
Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it.
Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
- Scarblac 3y agoAlmost, the password is ********.
- bayindirh 3y agoI can't read it. pfft
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- miroljub 3y agoThat's because of the HN security. It prints all passwords as stars. You can try putting your HN password in a comment, it would be visible only by you, and the others will not see it.
- meepmorp 3y agohunter1
- markx2 3y agoClose. hunter2
- meepmorp 3y agoWait, how did you see my password?
- test1235 3y agowe see it as asterisks ... you see it as hunter2 and not **** 'cos it's your password
- theginger 3y agoWhat? I just see stars
- CoastalCoder 3y agoGet to a doctor!
- pigeons 3y agoWhat? I just see stars Have you seen a doctor? No, just stars
- dllthomas 3y agoReady when you are, Raul.
- notarget137 3y agoHow about ****** Did it work?
- tomrod 3y agoOh wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?
- actionfromafar 3y agoI use my fingers to type passwords and ehh...
- bayindirh 3y agoI guess you're right. My HN password is *****. When I edit, I can see it, but when I save the comment, it becomes starred. It even randomizes the length every time I save. Brilliant!
- GTP 3y agoBut this also means that they know your plaintext password, meaning that they're saving passwords in plaintext. Given that this is mostly a technical community, it's much more the risk of keeping a database of plaintext passwords than the benefit of being able to obfuscate passwords in comments. EDIT: thanks to another commenter, I understood that what's happening in the above comments is just a meme and HN isn't storing plaintext passwords. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
- Volundr 3y agoIn case you're unclear why your being down voted, comment chain is a riff on one of the more famous bash.org quotes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2. HN does not actually know your password or hide it in comments.
- Duanemclemore 3y ago(whistles softly as he changes password from a string of twelve asterisks to ******)
- mewpmewp2 3y ago> HN does not actually know your password or hide it in comments. Does it not know? What if I post it in this comment? My password is *****.
- svnt 3y agoWhat actually happens is more complex: when you type a *******, HN tries to log in once for every string in your *******, and then when it succeeds it goes back and replaces that string with a randomized length of asterisks.
- nirui 3y agoThis has to be a joke. The only way it can be realistically implemented involves the storage of clear-text user password to enable string replacement during comment submission. Either that or converting user comment to a prefix/suffix table (or something similar) and then hash each item to search for a match. Both option is ridiculously unnecessary. Anyway, my HN password is ****. I bet it don't work.
- thomaslord 3y agoFortunately with modern serverless architecture, it's possible to make this performant! Just split up each comment into words and dispatch each word to a queue where AWS Lambda workers can check the words against the user's password hash. It might cost $20 to process each comment, but at least it'll autoscale to handle any comment volume you throw at it!
- Affric 3y agoCan passwords include spaces?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- zellyn 3y agoI love each and every one of you who have posted into this subtree, although it's bittersweet if bash.org really is going away… <3 https://archive.is/0y1yT https://archive.is/0y1yT is the archive of http://www.bash.org/?244321 http://www.bash.org/?244321
- romwell 3y agoFIY, your archive link is not working too at the moment. What do we do? Sigh I put on my robe and wizard hat https://web.archive.org/web/20190228221758/http://www.bash.org/?244321 https://web.archive.org/web/20190228221758/http://www.bash.o...
- RainaRelanah 3y agoWorks for me. Do note that archive.is blocks CloudFlare DNS.
- romwell 3y agoWorks for me now too, probably the server was not handling the load.
- philsnow 3y agoThis has bitten me before; now my pihole has this line in its dnsmasq configuration server=/archive.is/archive.ph/8.8.8.8 so that even if I'm using cloudflare dns for everything else, it will query 8.8.8.8 for those two domains
- qingcharles 3y agoThis hack needs to be pinned to the front of HN :)
- more_corn 3y agoSeriously. I’ve been hitting this for months.
- imgabe 3y agoHey, how did you get my Hacker News password?
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> Hey, how did you get my Hacker News password? Relax, they didn't. Your password is 3 characters longer.
- hunter2_ 3y agoIndeed, over the years a symbol gets added for length/complexity/rotation purposes.
- opello 3y agochef's kiss
- raverbashing 3y agoSo you're saying the server pings but nobody knows where it's at?
- bluedino 3y agoHah! I see you've never dealt with Rackspace hosting.
- bayindirh 3y agoHost resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything. The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too. So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side. Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the site during the merger?
- PcChip 3y agoWhoosh
- toyg 3y agoOne of the most famous quotes was about a server that is online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore where it physically is.
- bayindirh 3y agoAh, I probably missed it because we had the following dialogue at the office. <senior-sysadm> Hey bayindirh, is the log server up? <bayindirh> *SSHs to server* Yes, it's up and running nicely. <senior-sysadm> Where's that thing in the system room? <bayindirh> *Scratches head* Umm, I don't know? <senior-sysadm> Go find it, we'll upgrade it to newer HW. <bayindirh> Uh, OK. *leaves desk to dig the system room*. P.S.: I'm the one who installed that server physically and configured it in the first place. :D
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- cbsks 3y agoThat was a few years ago now… it’s probably up to hunter19 at least.
- sph 3y ago* At least 1 capital letter is required * At least 1 number is required * At least 1 symbol is required These days it's probably 'Hunter2024!'
- mathrawka 3y agoHunter2 holds such a special place in our hearts, let's keep politics out of this!
- cozzyd 3y agoHunter is already a symbol to MAGA world
- red-iron-pine 3y agowell, his junk mostly
- davchana 3y agoMy work password changes every 90 days. It is at 52nd iteration now.
- soperj 3y ago
- boring_twenties 3y agoThey should have made everything available as a torrent or something
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- hangonhn 3y agoDid you put on your robe and wizard hat first?