As much as I dislike Facebook, my father died yesterday and listening to some of the relatively unknown folk musicians that he had shared on there over the years meant a lot to me today.
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Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…
Facebook may bring “a lot of good to the world”, but it brings a lot of bad, too. Is it worth the tradeoff?
Yes. The same is applicable to every social networking site.
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From a cloudflare blog post on this, their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic. Presumably that was the case for DNS resolvers everywhere, so that would explain a slowdown: > But that's not all. Now human behavior and application logic kicks in and causes another exponential effect. A tsunami of additional DNS traffic follows. > This happened in part because apps won't accept an error for an ans…
> their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic But why does my browser need to do a DNS lookup every time I request a page from HN? It's not like the IP address changes every 5 minutes.
Because hackernews sets their TTL to 5 minutes:
dig +noauthority +noquestion +nostats news.ycombinator.com @ns-225.awsdns-28.com.
news.ycombinator.com. 300 IN A 209.216.230.240
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It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.
100% agreed. And there is nothing funnier than seeing people on "team Twitter" excitedly tweeting about how "nothing of value was lost" without any sense of irony whatsoever. To me, it's the difference between default private and default public. On both platforms you can curate your content, and arguably the worst content festers on Facebook because it is so hidden from the public eye, but it also means it doesn't ha…
>>"sunlight is the best disinfectant" is completely and utterly wrong.
Certainly for some types of infectant such as weapons-grade dezinformatsiya...
Or at least, to achieve disinfection, that sunlight needs to be applied at intensities found on the surface of the sun vs at the surface of the earth.
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#185Logged in for the first time in a while to check if it works - still getting errors but the DNS seems to be resolving now. I think HN might've caused another outage by hugging it to death like many other websites that landed on the front page.
It's the billions of people who have been trying to use it all day logging in and trying to update their feeds and catch up on what they missed that's slowing it down, not the small city of nerds clicking the title through HN. Facebook (and subsidiaries like Instagram hosted in the same DCs) normally receive more requests per minute than HN receives in a month.
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#186Does HN have any Facebook integrations that could have caused the slowness seen earlier? Or it could be that some part of the network infrastructure is shared between the two and was overloaded.
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#187WhatsApp is still down for me, anyone else?
Just came back up for me
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.
I'm from the US and have the same experience. Just glancing at my feed it's: Somebody celebrating getting out of rehab. Somebody heading to Italy for vacation. Somebody going in a hot air balloon. Somebody going to Santa Fe for vacation and asking for things to do. Somebody said last night was one of the best nights of their life. Somebody sharing progress updates on their offgrid homestead. Somebody got a new pizza…
> Somebody got a new pizza oven for National pizza month
There's a national pizza month?
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#189I'm seeing an unusual amount of reddit style small comments on this outage, which I find strange. They're short and in the vein of "Facebook is down: good" or "Facebook is back up: damn nothing good lasts forever" I understand the distain for Facebook as a business, but still this is pretty low effort.
Maybe it's because Facebook has become more than a business and has wormed its way into places where it has no business being? A ton of small city governments in the US do announcements and such on Facebook these days. One columnist is advocating giving the a seats at the United Nations, and does not get immediately laughed out of the room by the editor [1]. It's really hard to practically escape their reach, all the…
How private companies like Twitter and Facebook took over official government communication is rather lazy, and destructive to an open society.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm from the US and have the same experience. Just glancing at my feed it's: Somebody celebrating getting out of rehab. Somebody heading to Italy for vacation. Somebody going in a hot air balloon. Somebody going to Santa Fe for vacation and asking for things to do. Somebody said last night was one of the best nights of their life. Somebody sharing progress updates on their offgrid homestead. Somebody got a new pizza…
> Somebody got a new pizza oven for National pizza month There's a national pizza month?
Apparently: https://nationaltoday.com/national-pizza-month/
But honestly: who cares. Any excuse to eat some pizza is good enough for me!