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I've been getting increasing loss of news yc availability in the last few days. Is it just me, or is the server getting overloaded? (This was espeically a bummer as I was filling out the YC application)
- jsjenkins168 19y agoNot just you, I've had it too over the last day or so. Strangely, response time is still very good, so don't think it is due to server load..
- german 19y agoI've been having the same problems with news.ycombinator.com, but ycombinator.com loads everytime.
- Zak 19y agoycombinator.com has address 65.181.149.201 news.ycombinator.com has address 67.15.104.17
- imsteve 19y agoResponse time is not the only thing that could be affected by server load. Those infamous threading problems (deadlock, race..) also are a possibility.
- drm237 19y agoYeah, here also. Hopefully it's not a load/scaling issue. It would be interesting to know more about the platform and hosting configuration. It's interesting the server responds to pings, but the webserver seems to be shot when it's down.
- Zak 19y agoPG has mentioned before that it's a custom web server written in Arc. It's not unusual for web server software to go down while the host machine keeps working - especially when it's experimental software written in an unfinished programming language.
- brianmckenzie 19y agoI had some trouble getting on earlier today, but this is the first time I've noticed anything.
- johnrob 19y agoTime to rewrite the site in Blub?
- mylostone 18y agoI only expose my children to PG content.
- henning 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.
- Xichekolas 19y agoPaul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves. Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.
- iamwil 19y agoSounds like we should have a Paul Graham Facts, like Chuck Norris. Paul Graham's so smart that inside his brain is another brain. Paul Graham once matched /(x+x+)+y/ in logarithmic time.
- run4yourlives 19y agoDNS issues for sure folks.
- jsjenkins168 19y agoDNS shouldn't cause intermittent on/off issues though, since hostname mappings are cached..
- pg 19y agoMzscheme is core dumping. We may have discovered some new bug. Rtm is investigating.
- shadowplay 19y agoThis seems to be a recurring theme with Lisp implementations. Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading); Vendetta Online switched from SBCL to Erlang (GC/memory leaks). Other people have hit major snags e.g. with Haskell/GHC runtime bugs (Wager Labs; switched to Erlang). Use a massively complex runtime, hit bugs that can't be fixed (in a start-up timeframe, anyhow)?
- Kaizyn 19y agoIf more people used LISP runtime systems, then the bugs would be found more readily. Thus leading to fewer defections from LISP to Blubs.
- shadowplay 19y agoNot necessarily -- some organizations would patch it themselves in a private branch just to maintain an edge, assuming they have the expertise in-house. I've done this before with GPLed libraries. That's assuming you can even track down the problem -- Vendetta Online couldn't pin it down well enough to submit a coherent bug report (in fairness, SBCL is a monstrosity; just as a comparison, how many Rails developers could track down CRuby bugs?). I wouldn't call Erlang and Python Blubs.
- dfranke 19y ago> how many Rails developers could track down CRuby bugs? Probably a lot of them, if they tried. Because Ruby is so poorly specified, I frequently read the interpreter source code to figure out how things are supposed to behave. CRuby is really well-written in some ways and really poorly-written in others. It's poorly written in the sense that it's a painfully slow line-by-line interpreter. It's well written in the sense that the code is very clean and well-organized: I can usually find answers in the source faster than I can find answers in the pick-axe book.
- Mistone 19y agoyep, count me in, very annoying indeed.
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- nextmoveone 19y agoNope, it's been working for me!