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It was, but things seem to be getting better. Our hacker Nick is on the case.
by pg 13y ago
It was, but things seem to be getting better. Our hacker Nick is on the case.
- mck- 13y agoHave you identified the cause?
- pg 13y agoStill investigating, but Nick just turned off the site for non logged-in users to take the load off the system while we try to figure out what's going on.
- zmitri 13y agoIf you don't mind me asking, what percentage of page views are non logged-in users?
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- slg 13y agoIt is interesting that this is the exact opposite action Reddit takes when they are having server problems. I wonder what that says about each respective community.
- smackfu 13y agoFrom a technical side, it probably means that Reddit is showing static pages to visitors while HN is showing dynamic ones.
- AlisdairO 13y agoReddit's previously stated that non-logged-in users cause substantially lower resource consumption per user - I imagine that's a more likely explanation.
- oceanplexian 13y agoReddit uses an edge-cache for all logged-out content. They pass logged-in content. A cached HTTP document in something like Varnish should take virtually no resources whatsoever. HN is on Cloudflare but they might not be caching pages at the edge (they should).
- aidos 13y agoPresumably there's only so much caching you can do it this case - the points change on articles every second. Not like everyone has to see the most up to date content but it would be a trade off (that many wouldn't like)
- sp332 13y agoIs it related to the DDoS, or a separate issue?
- pg 13y agoIt's not related so far as we can tell.
- al1x 13y agoWhat do you do to mitigate DDoS attacks? Prolexic? Cloudflare? Other?
- selmnoo 13y agoHN does make use of Cloudflare apparently, I got several not loading messages which made mention of Cloudflare.
- antsar 13y agoTo elaborate, I think they began using Cloudflare just the other day, as a solution to the DDoS. I was able to get through by the time I checked it in the morning from home, but after getting to work I still couldn't access it for hours while the DNS change propagated.
- pa5tabear 13y agoIt's awesome pg responds so quickly... I'm wondering if he gets alerted (probably) or if he's on here a lot (probably). Maybe we could DDOS his alert system with threads about pg rated movies... And an aside- does pg have the most karma of any HN user?
- sp332 13y agopg has 147,000+ karma https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg and the top of the leaderboard is tptacek with 159,000+ https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- ozh 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ... Yet another HN URL that's mostly undisclosed. Sometimes I wonder how many there are.
- dangrossman 13y agoClick "Lists" In the footer of the site; it's no secret.
- fragmede 13y agoIt's incomplete though - https://news.ycombinator.com/classic https://news.ycombinator.com/classic is not listed, for example.
- pa5tabear 13y agoIs there a reason for keeping these hidden? I've also wondered about downvoting... I never see a button for that, but it seems like some people are still able to. Is it just the 'flag'?
- thedufer 13y agoNo, you need a minimum amount of karma for the downvote button to appear. I think its at ~500 now.
- blumentopf 13y agoApart from the outages, the favicon is missing since a few days.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoLooks fine to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico https://news.ycombinator.com/favicon.ico
- elwell 13y agoYou can tell Nick to take his time. I'm having a very productive morning.
- fournm 13y agoSo many defects knocked out this week during the HN issues. I don't know whether to be glad or what.
- aaronblohowiak 13y agoset noprocrast
- pc86 13y agoI just set it, but can someone tell me what it does? :)
- andyjohnson0 13y agoSee http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html "In my profile, what is noprocrast? It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero."
- omegant 13y agopg could vastly improve the tech world productivity if he would set a general noprocrast at certain hours.. from 10 to 12:30 and 14 to 16.. The individual noprocrast is not very useful at least for me, as I don´t have the willpower to keep it on..
- myang 13y agoyeah national average productivity jumped up by 50%
- jasonkolb 13y agoCool. I thought maybe it caught something from healthcare.gov servers. It's that time of year you know.
- selmnoo 13y agoBy the way, when you say Nick, you don't mean nickb' (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb) do you?