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KMnO4 wrote: post #251
autoexec wrote: post #233

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Wow, it works, but it really seems like it shouldn't. I'd expected reserved domain names to not resolve at all let alone be pingable and point at a working webserver. Has it always had a website?

Yes, it’s always existed. It actually belongs to the IANA and if you Whois it you get: RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

If they're running a mail server too I'm guilty of sending them a lot of spam. randomname@example.com is what I've always used for people unnecessarily requesting an email addresses

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Post by BbzzbB »

grepfru_it wrote: post #171
BbzzbB wrote: post #95

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CTRL-SHIFT-n (or -p) -> n -> ENTER

Ah the elusive PorN method

My Firefox on Manjaro defaulted to CTRL-SHIFT-p to open an incognito window, took me a minute to unlearn CTRL-SHIFT-n, but I figured I can't have the only PC with that hotkey.

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Post by freemint »

autoexec wrote: post #236
butterNaN wrote: post #211

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Habitual usage doesn't necessarily correlate to quality, I'd say. People who use Facebook/Twitter also have this sort of muscle reflex developed over time. That said, HN does have quality content and the signal/noise is way better than sites designed specifically to keep you addicted.

It might not correlate to quality, but if the information found at a website wasn't valued we wouldn't be constantly pulling the site up, just like facebook users do. I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design and specifically to keep you addicted (where "addicted" means using and constantly returning to the site). This site is just designed to attract people who are put off by the kinds of tric…

> I'd argue that this site has a good signal/noise ratio by design

Or so we tell ourselves.

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Post by lambda_dn »

olingern wrote: post #84

While the naysayers will say, "Why isn't this in the cloud?," I think the response times and uptime of hackernews is really impressive. If anyone has a write-up of the infrastructure that runs HN, I would be interested. Maybe startups really can be run off of a rasberry pi

HN was down for hours, no website hosted properly using cloud providers is down for more than a few minutes a year. It's trivial to set up multiple providers, multiple regions. Rather than having a few servers with some admin guy swapping out disks, really embarrassing for a so called tech site.

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Post by lambda_dn »

HN just lost 10% of it's users. Being down for hours is unforgivable in this day and age with cloud providers. Please get with the times, your a tech site for god sake!!!

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Post by tbyehl »

fartcannon wrote: post #212
oblio wrote: post #182

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Ah, that's easy. HN is running on an old laptop from Viaweb. Arc is running under the pg user and it's used as the process supervisor. The actual web server is a VB app running on Linux through Wine. The flat files have been migrated to an MS Access DB, also running through Wine.

My employer is taking notes.

Even IBM is leaving Notes.

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Post by boosteri »

Must admit it was really hard to find out what was going on. I stumbled upon a twitter link somewhere deep down a list of search results. Doe HN have a status page of any kind?

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Post by gitgud »

lambda_dn wrote: post #267

HN just lost 10% of it's users. Being down for hours is unforgivable in this day and age with cloud providers. Please get with the times, your a tech site for god sake!!!

> Being down for hours is unforgivable in this day and age with cloud providers.

Wasn't cloud flare down for a few hours recently... Cloud providers don't magically fix outages...

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