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I am finding that HN is down more often these days. Is it because of occasional spikes or is it a persistent occurrence. Perhaps pg could explain what's going o

I am finding that HN is down more often these days. Is it because of occasional spikes or is it a persistent occurrence. Perhaps pg could explain what's going on under the hood?

pclark 18y ago
I find it handy when HN goes down. Lets me get some work done. :)
- kailashbadu 18y ago
  I on the other hand become further unproductive. I keep coming back every 30 seconds to see if it’s up again and end up doing nothing at all.
  - moe 18y ago
    That's what hnstatus.net is for. Put it in a tab and the title will tell you within a minute when HN comes back.
  - wheels 18y ago
    I'd say that's a sign you probably should block yourself from HN for a while. Any time that I notice that I'm getting too compulsive about a particular site I add it to a blocked list and leave it there for a week or two. I'm also a huge fan of Freedom.app for disconnecting my internet for blocks of time where I notice that I'm too easily distracted.
    - staticshock 18y ago
      the freedom app seems interesting, does it have windows/linux equivalents?
      - wheels 18y ago
        Not that I know of, but it's a pretty trivial app. It just removes all of the default routing. Sure, I could probably add them back, but I've intentionally never learned how to use the BSD route that comes with Mac OS for that reason. :-) With Linux, actually, you could probably go one level lower by writing a small kernel driver that you could signal from user space to disable networking for a given period and then do some goofiness so that it couldn't be unloaded effectively and still get networking back.
  - yef 18y ago
    Or you could just knuckle down and work. I cant think of many times a site justified more than a few visits a day
- palish 18y ago
  It's like a global noprocrast. Let's take the next leap and add support for a 'global noprocrast vote'. If more people vote 'yes' than vote 'no', the site goes down for an hour.
pg 18y ago
A few days ago when that guy hacked the site, we turned off the process that restarts News when it gets wedged, and we forgot to turn it back on.

I am finding that HN is down more often these days. Is it because of occasional spikes or is it a persistent occurrence. Perhaps pg could explain what's going on under the hood?

pclark 18y ago

I find it handy when HN goes down. Lets me get some work done. :)

kailashbadu 18y ago
I on the other hand become further unproductive. I keep coming back every 30 seconds to see if it’s up again and end up doing nothing at all.
- moe 18y ago
  That's what hnstatus.net is for. Put it in a tab and the title will tell you within a minute when HN comes back.
- wheels 18y ago
  I'd say that's a sign you probably should block yourself from HN for a while. Any time that I notice that I'm getting too compulsive about a particular site I add it to a blocked list and leave it there for a week or two. I'm also a huge fan of Freedom.app for disconnecting my internet for blocks of time where I notice that I'm too easily distracted.
  - staticshock 18y ago
    the freedom app seems interesting, does it have windows/linux equivalents?
    - wheels 18y ago
      Not that I know of, but it's a pretty trivial app. It just removes all of the default routing. Sure, I could probably add them back, but I've intentionally never learned how to use the BSD route that comes with Mac OS for that reason. :-) With Linux, actually, you could probably go one level lower by writing a small kernel driver that you could signal from user space to disable networking for a given period and then do some goofiness so that it couldn't be unloaded effectively and still get networking back.
- yef 18y ago
  Or you could just knuckle down and work. I cant think of many times a site justified more than a few visits a day
palish 18y ago
It's like a global noprocrast. Let's take the next leap and add support for a 'global noprocrast vote'. If more people vote 'yes' than vote 'no', the site goes down for an hour.

pg 18y ago

A few days ago when that guy hacked the site, we turned off the process that restarts News when it gets wedged, and we forgot to turn it back on.