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Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?
84 points by rozenmd 10mo ago|2 comments
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
Last year I predicted: People will continue to run websites, and need to know when they're down (god, I hope). My 2026 prediction is that people will continue running websites and buiding web apps that need monitoring, more than ever b
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) Planning on wrapping up the year with a year in review post (thankfully I've been writing monthly updates as I go, should save some time). Apart from that, clearing up tech debt that he
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
how many months ago? the RRP on that today is like 1k+: https://www.ldlc.com/en/product/PB00622951.html
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
Learn by doing, I used iFixit to replace my Pixel 3 screen/body, Pixel 6a screen, and a bunch of other mac fixes. You just get better from doing it.
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
legal entities cost millions to set up for big companies many companies are afraid of the employment laws they don't fully understand timezones/cultural differences There are still contracts for working remotely at companies like
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
pattern matching. if you stray too far from the group, procurement folks get jittery about needing to explain it to their company.
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
The money in SaaS has never been folks willing/able to build it themselves risk-tolerant early adopters care purely about your features, and are willing to figure out the rest the bigger orgs (folks that refuse to move off legacy softw
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
guess that explains the random spike in people searching downdetector in OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=RlByu...
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
I use it for realistic(ish) testing of my hono API, big fan
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
There's an active incident: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/s35102g9syk0
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
Thinkpad T480, get an old enterprise machine off ebay and add more RAM I did this a while ago, wrote about it here: https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
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by rozenmd 10mo ago
Better question to ask might be: do you actively avoid medium.com links? I know I do.
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What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?(lumafield.com)
260 points by rozenmd 10mo ago|101 comments
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OnlineOrNot's lessons from Cloudflare's outage on 2025-11-18(onlineornot.com)
3 points by rozenmd 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
And a page monitoring this one: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=o398t... This one looks like it's behind a CDN, at least
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
here's a page that monitors that page: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=jCfaD... Looks like it's hosted in London?
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
OnlineOrNot's fallen back to AWS for monitoring, so you should still be getting alerts. The dashboard's API server runs on Cloudflare and is currently blocking all logins, will fix.
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
I'm still working my regular hours, I think I'm getting considerably more work done in that time. The type of work has changed too - mind numbing refactors across dozens of files are easier, for new feature work I have time to bui
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
Folks who've never scanned film in bulk, I guess
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
How long does a roll take you to scan that way?
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
For the "this is crazy expensive" crowd: this competes with the Pakon F135 - an ancient lab scanner that involves booting up Windows XP, finding old drivers on a CD, etc This sounds excellent to me, personally.
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
There are increasingly more status pages that automatically update based on uptime data (I built a service providing that - OnlineOrNot) But early-stage startups typically have engineering own the status page, but as they grow, ownership us
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
I recently moved a classic HTTP API server from Express to Hono (through the Hono node-server package), absolutely seamless migration.
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by rozenmd 11mo ago
From what I can tell, Downdetector just tracks traffic to their pages without actually checking if the site is down. The other day during the AWS outage they "reported" OVH down too.
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by rozenmd 1y ago
I've run a business in this space since 2021, I am yet to meet a business that lets their marketing team own their status page. You'll find most engineering teams will start owning a status page to centralise updates to their stak
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by rozenmd 1y ago
Bingo, too many folks focus on "oh god is my cpu good, ram good, etc" rather than "does the app still do the thing in a reasonable time?"
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by rozenmd 1y ago
I had a similar event a few months back, I now have separate providers for my SIM and home internet. You pay more, but the redundancy is worth it imo
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by rozenmd 1y ago
Great write-up! I had a similar project back in August when I realised my DB's performance (Postgres) was blocking me from implementing features users commonly ask for (querying out to 30 days of historical uptime data). I was already
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by rozenmd 1y ago
Still a one-person project (since 2021): https://onlineornot.com I'm still rebuilding OnlineOrNot's frontend to be powered by the public REST API. Uptime checks are now fully powered by a public API (still have heartbe

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