Tell HN: Merry Christmas • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by dang » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #11

tekacs wrote: post #6

Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three steps: https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server) https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily readonly) https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)

Restart?! ouch

I'd rather restart once (ok, twice) a year than keep that code around in production.

It only affects traffic for about 10 seconds.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by dang » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

tekacs wrote: post #6

Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three steps: https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server) https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily readonly) https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)

You must have grabbed that first one awfully quickly!

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by lomase » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 11:57 PM UTC

basilikum wrote: post #20

jagged-chisel wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Restart?! ouch

HN is a pretty simple, efficient monolithic web application. Some updates might need a restart. It's OK for some web requests to fail during that time. HN isn't life critical with sixtuple nine uptime requirements.

Steam, +130 million users, biggest gamming store, multi billion dolar company, is offline every week for a few minutes.

99.999999 is so overated.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by basilikum » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 11:58 PM UTC

cluckindan wrote: post #29

DetectDefect wrote: post #3

Shall we showcase our trees? * | /.\ /o..\ /..O\ /.o..o\ /...o.\ /..O..o.\ ^^^[_]^^^

o / \ o o / \ o o / \ o o / / \ o o o / / \ o o o I knew I should have invested in that fancy self-balancing one, oh well.

Ah, don't worry. If you just append to one side always and do an anti-balancing one, you get a string of lights.

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by BewareTheYiga » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:01 AM UTC

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Merry Christmas, HN

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by brulard » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:01 AM UTC

gavide wrote: post #25

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not sure what i'm looking at here...

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

#57

Post by brcmthrowaway » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:02 AM UTC

tekacs wrote: post #6

Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three steps: https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server) https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily readonly) https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)

What container is this running in?

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by givemeethekeys » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:02 AM UTC

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by shortcord » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:04 AM UTC

Luke 2:14

    [14] “Glory to God in the highest,
        and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Post by arjonagelhout » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:04 AM UTC

Merry Christmas!

Here’s a quad tree:

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