Tell HN: HN was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by worksonmine » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:23 PM UTC

fwip wrote: post #75

chistev wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's really not 'the smartest people.' It's people interested in tech, and often in making-a-lot-of-money-in-tech. It does have a lot of people with significant industry experience, which is cool.

> It's really not 'the smartest people.'

This was especially obvious during Covid, I even stopped visiting because the comment section was so crazy.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by russellbeattie » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

HN being down makes you start wondering about the differences between routine, addiction, compulsion, and habit.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by 1shooner » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

manbitesdog wrote: post #7

TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex

If you're looking to put the brakes on that, I've used LeechBlock to add a 5-second timer to opening a new HN window (along with other block schedules). The timer even fails if it loses focus, so it really helps slow you down.

https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by PurpleRamen » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

In other words, productivity in tech skyrocketed for hours..though it seems some work was flavoured with irrational anger.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:27 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…

Only way I have figured out how to to change the "Following" sort order back to chronological is from the mobile app: click the down arrow on the "Following" tab. Change the sort from "popular" to "most recent."

Seems to reset it on the web view, too.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:29 PM UTC

the_af wrote: post #98

chistev wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> It's a website with the smartest people in the world. Nice joke! At least, I hope it was a joke...

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Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by elxr » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:29 PM UTC

thatgerhard wrote: post #69

Thought for a second I got banned for something lol

I thought I was being rate-limited for opening posts too fast, which has happened before.

After more than an hour I thought, "wow this is pretty harsh" and "so much of my exposure to learning things is directly tied to HN posts". I was lost lol.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by gepiti » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

Athens, Greece yes it was down.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by SilverElfin » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:32 PM UTC

I tried to refresh an embarrassing amount of times

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by Kim_Bruning » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

In with the rest, yes, and my first thought is always "I have an internet outage" when HN is down. :-P