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HN is literally the website I open to check if I have internet connectivity. HN is truly a shining beacon in the trashy landscape of web bloat.

kikoreis 1y ago
Oh it's lwn.net for me!
throwawayexmple 1y ago
I find pinging localhost a bit more reliable, and faster too. I blame HN switching to AWS. Downtime also increased after the switch.
- dang 1y ago
  When did you notice HN switching to AWS, and what changed? (Those are trick questions, because we haven't switched to AWS. But I genuinely would like to hear the answers.) (We did switch to AWS briefly when our hosting provider went down because of a bizarre SSD self-bricking incident a few years ago...but it was only for a day or two!)
inopinatus 1y ago
I like to use example.com/net/org bonus, these have both http & https endpoints if you needed a differential diagnosis or just a means to trip some shitty airline/hotel walled garden into saying hello.
- scrollaway 1y ago
  https://neverssl.com https://neverssl.com :)
  - fragmede 1y ago
    httpS://neverssl.com?
abrookewood 1y ago
yep, I do exactly the same thing. If HN isn't loading, something is definitely fckd.
- dang 1y ago
  Except when HN itself is fckd. It does happen less than it used to, but still. (Edit: Btw, it's fine to say 'fucked' or other swear words on HN - we don't care about profanity and aren't Bowdlers. I add this because people sometimes misinterpret https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that way, assuming that we want drawing-room politness.)
theandrewbailey 1y ago
I usually load my blog to check internet connectivity. I work at an e-waste recycling company. Earlier this week, I had to test a bunch of laptop docking stations, so I kept force refreshing my blog to see if the Ethernet port worked. Thing is, it loads so fast, I kept the dev tools open to see if it actually refreshed.

kikoreis 1y ago

Oh it's lwn.net for me!

throwawayexmple 1y ago

I find pinging localhost a bit more reliable, and faster too. I blame HN switching to AWS. Downtime also increased after the switch.

dang 1y ago
When did you notice HN switching to AWS, and what changed? (Those are trick questions, because we haven't switched to AWS. But I genuinely would like to hear the answers.) (We did switch to AWS briefly when our hosting provider went down because of a bizarre SSD self-bricking incident a few years ago...but it was only for a day or two!)

inopinatus 1y ago

I like to use example.com/net/org bonus, these have both http & https endpoints if you needed a differential diagnosis or just a means to trip some shitty airline/hotel walled garden into saying hello.

scrollaway 1y ago
https://neverssl.com https://neverssl.com :)
- fragmede 1y ago
  httpS://neverssl.com?

abrookewood 1y ago

yep, I do exactly the same thing. If HN isn't loading, something is definitely fckd.

dang 1y ago
Except when HN itself is fckd. It does happen less than it used to, but still. (Edit: Btw, it's fine to say 'fucked' or other swear words on HN - we don't care about profanity and aren't Bowdlers. I add this because people sometimes misinterpret https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that way, assuming that we want drawing-room politness.)

theandrewbailey 1y ago

I usually load my blog to check internet connectivity. I work at an e-waste recycling company. Earlier this week, I had to test a bunch of laptop docking stations, so I kept force refreshing my blog to see if the Ethernet port worked. Thing is, it loads so fast, I kept the dev tools open to see if it actually refreshed.