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Crazy that Dang literally manages HN in his sleep! We all knew that but I haven't seen any confirmation before this.
by shlomo_z 10mo ago
Crazy that Dang literally manages HN in his sleep!
We all knew that but I haven't seen any confirmation before this.
- dang 10mo agofailing to manage HN in my sleep is more like it
- jonny_eh 10mo agoYour sleep is more important than our work distraction.
- seemaze 10mo agoI was curiously productive this morning..
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoI took a shower for the first time in one week
- arnavpraneet 10mo agocame back just in time for me to spend the first hour of my work
- commandersaki 10mo agoDo you have nightmares of failing to manage HN when you sleep too?
- dijit 10mo agoWe all have our moments, and I personally consider HN to be “best effort”, almost like a volunteer project. I’m not certain I’m correct: but thats the optics I have so my expectations are adjusted to that. So don’t beat yourself up please. When I worked for “SaaS unicorn” we typically had multiple levels of escalation, and acknowledging would have done nothing because the alarm would continue firing until fixed. Not sure what’s changed in 15 years of ops, I had assumed it would be better now- I can’t imagine silencing an alert totally by acknowledging it- if its still occurring. I’m totally fine with how you handled it, if anything I am thankful. But that seems to be a system I would improve if I had the time. “mute” is different than “resolve” to me, and both should exist. (Where mute is an acknowledgement of an issue as ongoing.)
- scottlamb 10mo agoThis. If it were a business-critical money fountain, I'd expect follow-the-sun SRE coverage. I don't think it is, so I can probably accept drinking my morning coffee without scrolling HN once in a while. There's only so much one can beat oneself up about a slow/incorrect response when the on-call is handled by what, just one person? maybe two people in the same time zone? (Might be wise though to have PagerDuty configured to re-alert if the outage persists.)
- giancarlostoro 10mo agoYeah we don't exactly pay to be on HN, not much to complain about. I appreciate everyone who works on HN.
- jacquesm 10mo agoWe pay with content and with the fact that we attract the talent that eventually ends up powering ycombinator investment rounds.
- phantasmish 10mo agoIt’s ad-supported. Any post with comments disabled is definitely an ad. Probably a lot of the others are, too.
- notachatbot123 10mo agoAnd that is a good thing. Sleep tight!
- sailfast 10mo agoYeah, I mean how dare you?! I pay good money for high uptime SLAs! :)
- franciscop 10mo agoNo worries, please take care of your sleep and thanks for all your hard work
- zenoprax 10mo agoWhich is fine! I don't mind if it's down for a few hours. It reminds me that it's just a place to stop by for a bit before moving on. Like a digital coffee shop that sometimes has a leaky pipe and isn't open right at 7am. I hope it doesn't change (much).
- djmips 10mo agoI appreciate what you do. Hope you got some rest when it was all over.
- feczeri_c 10mo agoYou deserve a lot of rest!
- wkat4242 10mo agoYou're still a miracle worker. Single-handedly managing a well-known fully user-contributed site not just technically but moderation in contentious times like these and still keeping it working well and encouraging a positive user community can't be an easy task.
- dang 10mo agoThanks, I'll take it! except for the single-handedly part - gotta share the love with https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=tomhow https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=tomhow.
- nubinetwork 10mo agoI was starting to think you never slept, I remember that one time I emailed you at 1am. :)
- sizzle 10mo agoTime to train an AI agent on your moderation activity and get some well deserved sleep!
- dang 10mo agoWe're working on it! well, some of it. I'm pretty happy with how it's developing—the trendline is promising—but not ready to rely on it in prod yet.
- qingcharles 10mo agoI was today years old when I found out Dan sleeps.
- gaudystead 10mo agoI was today years old when I found out that dang's first name is Dan
- anonymous908213 10mo agoYou'll never guess what letter dang's last name starts with.
- smolder 10mo agoA as in Ang, clearly.
- qingcharles 10mo agoNo, he's Asian. The n is doing double-duty. His last name is Ng :p
- fragmede 10mo agoThat's exactly what a French person with the last name of Les would say!
- easterncalculus 10mo agoI like hacker news but I don't think this site is worth getting paged over lol
- archon810 10mo agoYou might be underestimating HN's popularity.
- locknitpicker 10mo ago> You might be underestimating HN's popularity. I think you're confusing popularity with criticality. I'm sure everyone in here can withstand a few hours without browsing the page.
- bayindirh 10mo agoIf you like the thing you're managing, then its health is critical for you, not your users. It's dang's baby at this point, and this is a good thing, as long as HN doesn't affect his life in ways he doesn't want.
- locknitpicker 10mo ago[flagged]
- bayindirh 10mo agoI have a pretty firm grip on life and touch plenty of grass both literally and figuratively. However, when something I care about crashes and burns once in a blue moon, I make sure to put the fire out, at least to make it survive till regular hours. Things I care about can be both business and personal, and nobody bugs me for them. Maybe we shouldn't make any assumptions about people we don't personally know, while we are at it.
- locknitpicker 10mo ago
- utopcell 10mo agoBy demonstration he didn't.
- sizzle 10mo agoWhat if Dang made an AI agent of himself for when he sleeps?