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US Government Uptime Monitor

222 points by exr0n 1y ago

0xblinq 1y ago
Where's the up time monitor for this site? It seems to be down.
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bradtheappguy 1y ago
two nines
- scrollaway 1y ago
  Should've listened to Herman Cain :)
jakozaur 1y ago
(Tech) Debt seems to be a frequent cause of (Tech) outages.
port3000 1y ago
Love it. However if this were realistic, it would say Partial outage so as to not trigger the SLAs
- candiddevmike 1y ago
  Sorry for the inconvenience, we're currently pausing some services to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
cyberax 1y ago
"Have you tried turning it off and on?"
pizlonator 1y ago
Yeah but like this isn't funny anymore guys
- slater 1y ago
  i'd say go tell the felon(s) in the white house, but they're currently busy having a gold-encrusted ball room built
  - hypeatei 1y ago
    And scheduling a call between Indonesia's President and Eric Trump[0]. > In a private exchange picked up by microphones, the Indonesian leader asked to meet Eric Trump, to which the president answered, “I’ll have Eric call you,” > We’re building a great hotel, and that’s going to start very soon. And I never met the president, and I used to go over there quite a bit. And obviously we manage teams over there, and it’s pretty amazing that he knew who I was. And, you know, it’s obviously — I don’t get involved in politics in Indonesia — but when I heard that, I started laughing. ‘Can I please meet Eric?’ He must know the projects very well. 0: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-indonesian-president-hot-mic-rcna238254 https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-indonesi...
  - ryandrake 1y ago
    He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself. Man's got to have priorities. 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_posts_insane_video_of_himself_as_a_king/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_post...
    - anonymousiam 1y ago
      Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts. To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS has nothing to sign.
      - hypeatei 1y ago
nadermx 1y ago
I applaud this. "Your tax dollars at rest"
- delichon 1y ago
  They can come home, all is forgiven.
  - cindyllm 1y ago
    [dead]
alecsm 1y ago
This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer) because it's blocked in Spain. IP Provider Status 188.114.97.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked 188.114.96.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments on HN.
- prmoustache 1y ago
  cloudflare. Most of the internet behind cloudflare is blocked whenever there are football being played in La Liga (the Spanish League).
- drnick1 1y ago
  This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?
  - alecsm 1y ago
    No, they just make all ISP operating in the country mass block IPs.
    - sunaookami 1y ago
      And one of the biggest ISPs, Telefonica, holds the rights to the soccer matches so they happily comply!
  - sunaookami 1y ago
    Every EU country has one, on nation- and on EU-level.
    - CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
      > and on EU-level Are you claiming there is a EU-wide firewall that EU could use (not the countries themselves) to block arbitrary websites? The EU hate on HN is reaching conspiracy-type levels now it seems.
stefan_ 1y ago
This says "USDA operational"
superfunny 1y ago
Needs to go back further - there were shutdowns 30 years ago
- whoisthemachine 1y ago
  This did make me curious, when did the federal government start "running" on a budget and "shutting down" when it doesn't have enough money? All 250 years, or is this a more recent phenomenon?
  - hollerith 1y ago
    The Federal government of 200 years ago had a lot less money and performed much fewer functions than the Fed gov of today even during the current shut down.
  - whoisthemachine 1y ago
    For those interested, funding gaps only really became a thing in the 1970's, during Ford's administration [0]. It wasn't until a new interpretation of the Anti-Deficiency Act of 1880 that they became known as "shutdowns" in 1980 [1]. So a relatively recent phenomenon. Hilariously, prior to that law, the executive branch would overspend early in the year, forcing more spending from congress in order to meet their contracts [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_funding_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States#List_of_federal_shutdowns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act#Provisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act#Provisions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_deficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_deficiency
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nekusar 1y ago
A far as I'm concerned, they're just intentionally failing to do their job. And they *all* in congress should be fired for job abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not allowed to run. After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff), they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut down". It's a scam. Something about "taxation without representation". I think we went to war over that before.
- maest 1y ago
  A failure like this would immediately trigger reelections in the UK. It's a strong incentive to not shut down the government. There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then blame the other party.
  - nekusar 1y ago
    > There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then blame the other party. Which is precisely what's happening. Im frankly done with the children bickering. But in all seriousness, neither party really cares about us. Republicans are engorged with the tech neofascists, and the democrats are caught up with special interest du jour, with a healthy smattering of surveillance as well. Ive seen how the governments (local, state, federal) operate. It's fucked, and its going to be a long time to fix it, if possible. Not sure what my plans are, honestly. Take it as I can, i guess.
    - blooalien 11mo ago
      > It's fucked, and its going to be a long time to fix it, if possible. There's no fixing this. We've allowed the most psychotic lunatics on planet Earth control over the most absolutely insane weapons of mass destruction and all the armies and police, and those people have already decided amongst themselves that their little game of "he who dies with the most money wins" is far more important than all the life on Earth.
  - nelox 1y ago
neckardt 1y ago
Love it! One nit: the % number jiggles around. This can be fixed either by left aligning the number, or by using a monospaced font.
- sherry-sherry 1y ago
  Or using ‘tabular figures’ for the numbers. It keeps just the number widths the same. I believe it’s ‘font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;’ in CSS. I often see it on sports broadcasts, or anything with a counter where the number changes and makes the rest of the line ‘jiggle’.
daft_pink 1y ago
Wish there was a simple way to get updates on large swings in the government shut down poly market. I’d really like to know when things are shifting without having to watch the stupid news every day.
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hdaz0017 1y ago
- if governement is down does that mean citzans do not have to pay any taxes - All US workers need to go on strike until you get a government that works for the whole population ;)
atmavatar 1y ago
It's too bad the page only goes back 15 years. It would be a bit cooler if it went all the way back to the first government shutdown under Carter.
lionelholt 1y ago
Energy > National Nuclear Security Administration (civilian) Should we be concerned about that being shut down?
issung 1y ago
The percentages should be counting upwards for the departments that are currently operational, instead they are currently static :)
- xboxnolifes 1y ago
  Its a 15 year window. They don't go up until the disruptions fall outside of the window.
mckn1ght 1y ago
Apparently this same idea was done 12 years ago, it's still there but I guess is no longer being updated, it still shows the gov't being up: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6500700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6500700 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476641

222 points by exr0n 1y ago

0xblinq 1y ago

Where's the up time monitor for this site? It seems to be down.

deleted 1y ago

[deleted]

bradtheappguy 1y ago

two nines

scrollaway 1y ago
Should've listened to Herman Cain :)

jakozaur 1y ago

(Tech) Debt seems to be a frequent cause of (Tech) outages.

port3000 1y ago

Love it. However if this were realistic, it would say Partial outage so as to not trigger the SLAs

candiddevmike 1y ago
Sorry for the inconvenience, we're currently pausing some services to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

cyberax 1y ago

"Have you tried turning it off and on?"

pizlonator 1y ago

Yeah but like this isn't funny anymore guys

slater 1y ago
i'd say go tell the felon(s) in the white house, but they're currently busy having a gold-encrusted ball room built
- hypeatei 1y ago
  And scheduling a call between Indonesia's President and Eric Trump[0]. > In a private exchange picked up by microphones, the Indonesian leader asked to meet Eric Trump, to which the president answered, “I’ll have Eric call you,” > We’re building a great hotel, and that’s going to start very soon. And I never met the president, and I used to go over there quite a bit. And obviously we manage teams over there, and it’s pretty amazing that he knew who I was. And, you know, it’s obviously — I don’t get involved in politics in Indonesia — but when I heard that, I started laughing. ‘Can I please meet Eric?’ He must know the projects very well. 0: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-indonesian-president-hot-mic-rcna238254 https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-indonesi...
- ryandrake 1y ago
  He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself. Man's got to have priorities. 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_posts_insane_video_of_himself_as_a_king/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_post...
  - anonymousiam 1y ago
    Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts. To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS has nothing to sign.
    - hypeatei 1y ago

nadermx 1y ago

I applaud this. "Your tax dollars at rest"

delichon 1y ago
They can come home, all is forgiven.
- cindyllm 1y ago
  [dead]

alecsm 1y ago

This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer) because it's blocked in Spain. IP Provider Status 188.114.97.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked 188.114.96.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments on HN.

prmoustache 1y ago
cloudflare. Most of the internet behind cloudflare is blocked whenever there are football being played in La Liga (the Spanish League).
drnick1 1y ago
This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?
- alecsm 1y ago
  No, they just make all ISP operating in the country mass block IPs.
  - sunaookami 1y ago
    And one of the biggest ISPs, Telefonica, holds the rights to the soccer matches so they happily comply!
- sunaookami 1y ago
  Every EU country has one, on nation- and on EU-level.
  - CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
    > and on EU-level Are you claiming there is a EU-wide firewall that EU could use (not the countries themselves) to block arbitrary websites? The EU hate on HN is reaching conspiracy-type levels now it seems.

stefan_ 1y ago

This says "USDA operational"

superfunny 1y ago

Needs to go back further - there were shutdowns 30 years ago

whoisthemachine 1y ago
This did make me curious, when did the federal government start "running" on a budget and "shutting down" when it doesn't have enough money? All 250 years, or is this a more recent phenomenon?
- hollerith 1y ago
  The Federal government of 200 years ago had a lot less money and performed much fewer functions than the Fed gov of today even during the current shut down.
- whoisthemachine 1y ago
  For those interested, funding gaps only really became a thing in the 1970's, during Ford's administration [0]. It wasn't until a new interpretation of the Anti-Deficiency Act of 1880 that they became known as "shutdowns" in 1980 [1]. So a relatively recent phenomenon. Hilariously, prior to that law, the executive branch would overspend early in the year, forcing more spending from congress in order to meet their contracts [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_funding_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States#List_of_federal_shutdowns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act#Provisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act#Provisions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_deficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_deficiency

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nekusar 1y ago

A far as I'm concerned, they're just intentionally failing to do their job. And they *all* in congress should be fired for job abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not allowed to run. After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff), they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut down". It's a scam. Something about "taxation without representation". I think we went to war over that before.

maest 1y ago
A failure like this would immediately trigger reelections in the UK. It's a strong incentive to not shut down the government. There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then blame the other party.
- nekusar 1y ago
  > There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then blame the other party. Which is precisely what's happening. Im frankly done with the children bickering. But in all seriousness, neither party really cares about us. Republicans are engorged with the tech neofascists, and the democrats are caught up with special interest du jour, with a healthy smattering of surveillance as well. Ive seen how the governments (local, state, federal) operate. It's fucked, and its going to be a long time to fix it, if possible. Not sure what my plans are, honestly. Take it as I can, i guess.
  - blooalien 11mo ago
    > It's fucked, and its going to be a long time to fix it, if possible. There's no fixing this. We've allowed the most psychotic lunatics on planet Earth control over the most absolutely insane weapons of mass destruction and all the armies and police, and those people have already decided amongst themselves that their little game of "he who dies with the most money wins" is far more important than all the life on Earth.
- nelox 1y ago

neckardt 1y ago

Love it! One nit: the % number jiggles around. This can be fixed either by left aligning the number, or by using a monospaced font.

sherry-sherry 1y ago
Or using ‘tabular figures’ for the numbers. It keeps just the number widths the same. I believe it’s ‘font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;’ in CSS. I often see it on sports broadcasts, or anything with a counter where the number changes and makes the rest of the line ‘jiggle’.

daft_pink 1y ago

Wish there was a simple way to get updates on large swings in the government shut down poly market. I’d really like to know when things are shifting without having to watch the stupid news every day.

deleted 1y ago

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hdaz0017 1y ago

- if governement is down does that mean citzans do not have to pay any taxes - All US workers need to go on strike until you get a government that works for the whole population ;)

atmavatar 1y ago

It's too bad the page only goes back 15 years. It would be a bit cooler if it went all the way back to the first government shutdown under Carter.

lionelholt 1y ago

Energy > National Nuclear Security Administration (civilian) Should we be concerned about that being shut down?

issung 1y ago

The percentages should be counting upwards for the departments that are currently operational, instead they are currently static :)

xboxnolifes 1y ago
Its a 15 year window. They don't go up until the disruptions fall outside of the window.

mckn1ght 1y ago

Apparently this same idea was done 12 years ago, it's still there but I guess is no longer being updated, it still shows the gov't being up: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6500700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6500700 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476641