Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

#11

Post by onion2k » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:44 PM UTC

I did far more work than usual and now my product lead is going to expect this to happen every sprint.

They'll be so disappointed.

#12

Post by WhiteOwlEd » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:45 PM UTC

I wrote ad copy for an Unreal Engine based, data visualization course that is hosted online. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization....

#13

Post by jspaetzel » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:45 PM UTC

Wrote tickets in Jira

#14

Post by raffraffraff » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

Reddit. Fuck Reddit.

#15

Post by devin » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

I worked out and took a long walk.

#16

Post by gffrd » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

I got some work done for once. There's my 2.35 hours of work for the month!

#17

Post by silisili » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

Checked HN, watched it spin for about 10 seconds before going elsewhere, then trying again 8 seconds later out of habit mostly. Rinse and repeat.

#18

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

Escape from Tarkov

#19

Post by chainwax » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

I got most of the way there to hosting a small site from a pi. Got hung up on port forwarding on Fios. I'll figure it out though.

#20

Post by mgh2 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

Blind. There are some trolls like with anything, but sometimes there is good content from tech workers.

There might be an overlap of demographics... largely Indians under H1B