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Re: HN is up again

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Post by chippiewill »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #20

HN was down because the failover server also failed: https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1545409429113229312 Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible. The most impressive thing is that there seems to be no dataloss, almost whatsoever. Whatever the backup system is, it seems rock solid.

> Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible.

It's actually surprisingly common for failover hardware to fail shortly after the primary hardware. It's normally been exposed to similar conditions to what killed the primary and the strain of failing over pushes it over the edge.

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Post by qwertox »

What a ride. HN should shut down once a month on purpose on a random working day just to allow us to recalibrate our inner compass a bit.

Re: HN is up again

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Post by jve »

beckingz wrote: post #65

Previous post on the HN status twitter account is from June 2021. Over a year with no issues. Impressive. https://twitter.com/HNStatus

Twitter doesn't bother with minor issues, but there were some for sure.

This logs lesser ones: https://hn.hund.io/

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Post by deltarholamda »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #20

HN was down because the failover server also failed: https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1545409429113229312 Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible. The most impressive thing is that there seems to be no dataloss, almost whatsoever. Whatever the backup system is, it seems rock solid.

>the failover server also failed

Those responsible for the sacking have also been sacked.

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Post by rat9988 »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #72
pastor_bob wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is dang pushing changes and such on his own? sounds like it is run by one guy

HN will be around a hundred years. I think it's more than just a forum. We've seen lots of people coordinate during disasters, for example. Dan and his team do a good job running it. (I'm not a part of it.) EDIT: My response was based on some edits that are now removed.

You are overstimating HN way too much.

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Post by spiffytech »

davedunkin wrote: post #66
sillysaurusx wrote: post #20

HN was down because the failover server also failed: https://twitter.com/HNStatus/status/1545409429113229312 Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible. The most impressive thing is that there seems to be no dataloss, almost whatsoever. Whatever the backup system is, it seems rock solid.

> Double disk failure is improbable but not impossible. It's not even improbable if the disks are the same kind purchased at the same time.

Yep: if you buy a pair disks together, there's a fair chance they'll both be from the same manufacturing batch, which correlates with disk defects.

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Post by baby »

haswell wrote: post #35

This downtime made me realize (again) how much I appreciate the kind of interesting topics that show up here, the depth of discussion, and a general attitude of good faith that (most) engage with here. I realized how little of this I find elsewhere in my life - whether through Reddit or even my IRL friend circles. This realization saddens me - I feel like I shouldn’t have to rely on HN so much to scratch this particu…

I've been wanting to create something similar but for cryptocurrencies. A place with no scam/bullshit posts and only deeply technical discussions about the latest trends in zero-knowledge proofs, consensus protocols, scalability challenges, etc.

But I'm too lazy to write the application. I wish there was some SDK I could spin up, like PHPBB back in the days, to have something exactly like HN.

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