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

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

#162
Me and my partner walked the town in the sun, had ramen soup at the pier, checked out an art gallery then had some coffee. After coming home we opened up some nice german weissbiers and watched Brazil.

This morning the forecast was rain, and I expected the day to turn out much worse.

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

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Listing out all the HN systems I could check, for example API stayed up whole time. _________

Obviously, the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/

HN’s official status page: https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus

This URL checks if the API is up: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pret...

HN Search Engine: https://hn.algolia.com

AWS Route 53 status, it is the service that manages HN’s DNS: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws

YC DNS record: https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com

HN’s official email: hn@ycombinator.com

Note: Intentionally left off YC, since it appears to be unrelated beyond the DNS.

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Forgot something, let me know. Thanks!

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

#165

A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm beginning to realize just how powerful this is. Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))' and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not grea…

So the Domain squatter pays to let Adblockers show ads on their sites?

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

#168

Me and my partner walked the town in the sun, had ramen soup at the pier, checked out an art gallery then had some coffee. After coming home we opened up some nice german weissbiers and watched Brazil. This morning the forecast was rain, and I expected the day to turn out much worse.

Brazil is a gem.
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