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I'm not going to lie, I had a good laugh thanks to this post. Not that I fault the method being used to combat memory leaks. Depending on how much (of pg's) t

by zheng 14y ago

I'm not going to lie, I had a good laugh thanks to this post. Not that I fault the method being used to combat memory leaks. Depending on how much (of pg's) time a restart takes, this may be the most efficient way of handling it, but the idea that the site where we all discuss the finer points of multi-region-zone-datacenter replication redundancy just gets restarted when something isn't working correctly humors me.

andrewljohnson 14y ago
Pretty sure the most efficient way of handling it would be to port the site to something that wasn't Arc. These problems exist because Hacker News is half science project, half production site.
- orangethirty 14y ago
  That makes it cool.
- bane 14y ago
  The best part is that it's becoming one of the more influential tech sites on the web now, kind of proving the point that hacking together something great (and NOW) can provide tremendous value to lots of people.
  - sharkweek 14y ago
    I am a diehard HN fanboy, love the community, love getting my daily tech news here; but... anytime I want a good laugh I like to crack open the source code of Ycombinator's home page I mean... c'mon <table width=100% cellpadding=6 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=#ffff88> <table width=100% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=#ffff88>
    - yuhong 14y ago
      Yet the JS still uses getElementById!
    - bane 14y ago
      It's even funnier when I think that HN is probably more popular than anything I'll ever work on. Apparently people don't care that you are using the latest dynamic stylesheet code generator or whatever, so long as the information is presentable and the community is good.
      - tripzilch 14y ago
        There's plenty of people that care, but it seems like it's not going to be fixed anyhow, so you don't see many complaints. Personally I'd love it if the HTML template of HN would be a bit more semantic. I've had at least four false starts where I was like "yeah I'm gonna build this piece of userscript JS so I can more easily <check replies to my comments or whatever>" only to hit a brick wall when I am reminded how awful it is to parse, even with today's advanced DOM querying features. Fortunately there are those with more perseverance, so I am thankful to at least get to use someone's bookmarklet that adds comment-folding to HN :)

by zheng 14y ago

andrewljohnson 14y ago

Pretty sure the most efficient way of handling it would be to port the site to something that wasn't Arc. These problems exist because Hacker News is half science project, half production site.

orangethirty 14y ago
That makes it cool.
bane 14y ago
The best part is that it's becoming one of the more influential tech sites on the web now, kind of proving the point that hacking together something great (and NOW) can provide tremendous value to lots of people.
- sharkweek 14y ago
  I am a diehard HN fanboy, love the community, love getting my daily tech news here; but... anytime I want a good laugh I like to crack open the source code of Ycombinator's home page I mean... c'mon <table width=100% cellpadding=6 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=#ffff88> <table width=100% cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=#ffff88>
  - yuhong 14y ago
    Yet the JS still uses getElementById!
  - bane 14y ago
    It's even funnier when I think that HN is probably more popular than anything I'll ever work on. Apparently people don't care that you are using the latest dynamic stylesheet code generator or whatever, so long as the information is presentable and the community is good.
    - tripzilch 14y ago
      There's plenty of people that care, but it seems like it's not going to be fixed anyhow, so you don't see many complaints. Personally I'd love it if the HTML template of HN would be a bit more semantic. I've had at least four false starts where I was like "yeah I'm gonna build this piece of userscript JS so I can more easily <check replies to my comments or whatever>" only to hit a brick wall when I am reminded how awful it is to parse, even with today's advanced DOM querying features. Fortunately there are those with more perseverance, so I am thankful to at least get to use someone's bookmarklet that adds comment-folding to HN :)