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

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

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Post by chazeon » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 8:59 PM UTC

Install a uptime-kuma[1] at my home server... Then get a Telegram notification while hacker news is up again. Actually I self-host more service myself and it was use to monitor those services.

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

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

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Post by wffurr » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:00 PM UTC

Took a nap. Read Your Local Epidemiologist and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

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

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Post by tekknolagi » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

Still didn't do much work :D

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

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Post by deltarholamda » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

inasio wrote: post #29

I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years, probably. Still there...

I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion. It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

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

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Post by christophilus » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

Curled up in the corner, hugged myself and rocked back and forth, sobbing inconsolably.

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

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Post by digitalsankhara » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

Gave me time to take my annual shower and comb my greybeard.

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

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Post by mikewarot » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

There's a material analogous to permanent magnets for charge... called an Electret. They are one of the reasons N-95 masks work.

They also might shield gravity a bit. Now I need to get a 50kv DC power supply to make my own in bulk, and find out. I expect it to be interesting, but no new physics.

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

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Post by marginalia_nu » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

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 great with JQ, so there's probably a better way of doing this, but this unga bunga approach works too)

Specifically, today I did some research on a few tags and headers supposedly associated with "Acceptable Ads" (a standard for showing ads through complicit adblockers), and ended up with a fairly reliable fingerprint for a network of domain squatters that have been a nuisance in my search engine database. Turns out they're basically the only ones that use the headers and tags I was looking at, so now I'm onto their IP-ranges as well.