Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

mitchtbaum wrote: post #100

Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3... https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by smoe » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:37 AM UTC

sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

Never seen Youtube go down on their end. But I have seen it stop working on dozens of workstations at a news site simultaneously when they dropped ie7 support.

Magically this enabled the outsourced infrastructure provider to roll out a new default browser quite a bit faster than they previously claimed they can...

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Post by agumonkey » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

Globz wrote: post #295

meowface wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, they do. Pretty clever idea, I think.

Yes I agree, encrypting the stack trace enable them to share sensitive server side error codes to the client which in return can be easily reported back without having to explain anything or try to decode cryptic custom error messages. This is fantastic!

Also probably a unique hash too

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Post by fl0wenol » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

kiostech wrote: post #129

mitchtbaum wrote: post #100

Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3... https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

https://d.tube/

Everything on there looks like a scam or those 5-minute lifehack compilations where you lose a finger if you tried them yourself.

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Post by richardknop » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

corodra wrote: post #102

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

My bet is data loss. Some engineer deleted MySQL table accidentally and they found out their backups are not working.

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Post by srcmap » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 2:38 AM UTC

Escapado wrote: post #115

corodra wrote: post #102

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?

A few hundred AI learning instances were started to train on youtube videos to "understand" humanity. They have become self aware and started to consume double amount of CPU/GPU/Disk/RAM/Network resource every few seconds - a skynet/super nova moment.