Tell HN: HN was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by Nextgrid » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #46

A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.

A lot of them got fooled by the caching; pages for signed-out users are cached heavily and those kept returning successful responses even if the actual backend server was down.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by fatty_patty89 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #42

fatty_patty89 wrote: post #24

I got irrationally angry when it refused to load the website

You handle your irrational anger much better than whatevermrfukz who keeps pooping his pants.

Interesting that you mention that, how do you keep track of his comments? Some sort of plugin/scraper?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by dhruv3006 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

I was quiet surprised really. HN almost never goes down.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by chistev » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #46

A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.

And an outage reliability indicator for that outage reliability indicator.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by messe » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

fedreg wrote: post #40

sosodev wrote: post #8

Yes, and I'm a little ashamed to admit my morning routine wasn't the same without it.

This was more impactful to my day than the last AWS and CloudFlare outages...

At least during those outages I could procrastinate on HN.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by zipy124 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #48

Is this still a valid account for HN status? It says it’s the official one, but with the changes at Twitter to no longer show chronological feeds (at least for users that aren’t logged in), it’s rather useless. The top 5 listed post (for me) are seemingly random from 2014 - 2022. https://x.com/HNStatus Is there a better place to check, beyond a basic down detector that may provide more insight or signal that the outa…

https://hn.hund.io/ Is a status page, no idea if official or not, but it didn't register here for some reason.

I didn't read the post text, it's identified there haha, my bad! I wish the text post text wasn't grey, I gloss over it too easily.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC

chistev wrote: post #58

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It just reinforces for me that addiction is a human problem not a problem with technology I know dang basically works tirelessly to not change the format in order to not induce those addictive patterns but yet here we all are

It's a website with the smartest people in the world. The level of conversations here are unrivaled in internet communities. It's understandable to be addicted. Lol. I visit this place multiple times a day.

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Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by arionmiles » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #46

A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.

So a downdetectorsdowndetector.com but for Hacker News?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by thatgerhard » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC

Thought for a second I got banned for something lol

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by rolandog » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC

null_deref wrote: post #56

DonHopkins wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember my first beer.

That Markov chain spiraled out of control

Perhaps Grok was not trained to go so much time with 0 responses due to the downtime?