And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.
Yes, from New Zealand it is now normal speed.
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Only $13.3 million per hour in revenue [1], but about $45 billion in market cap today [2]. 1. https://fortune.com/2021/10/04/facebook-outage-cost-revenue-... 2. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/FB:NASDAQ
You mean $945B?
At close, market cap was approximately 920B and the stock was down about 5%. The change in market cap is therefore about 920B * (1 / 0.95 - 1) ~ 48B
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Proof by anecdote
Did you get confused and think "There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angy, and harmful messaging on FB platforms." was data?
If you keep up with current affairs the past few weeks have shown that FB’s alleged problems are supported by data which is disregarded by it’s leadership
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Same.... was it a global DNS issue or was HN overloaded from everybody looking for updates?
From a cloudflare blog post on this, their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic. Presumably that was the case for DNS resolvers everywhere, so that would explain a slowdown: > But that's not all. Now human behavior and application logic kicks in and causes another exponential effect. A tsunami of additional DNS traffic follows. > This happened in part because apps won't accept an error for an ans…
> their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic
But why does my browser need to do a DNS lookup every time I request a page from HN? It's not like the IP address changes every 5 minutes.
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Could it just be people pounding HN for any update on Facebook?
That's what I saw claimed, but that wouldn't go away the very second Facebook came online again
A non-trivial percentage of HN visitors also read FB. Absent FB, they likely spent more time on HN.
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#146I'm seeing an unusual amount of reddit style small comments on this outage, which I find strange. They're short and in the vein of "Facebook is down: good" or "Facebook is back up: damn nothing good lasts forever" I understand the distain for Facebook as a business, but still this is pretty low effort.
Interesting how low quality comments seem to be correlated with FB going down :)
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Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…
Facebook may bring “a lot of good to the world”, but it brings a lot of bad, too. Is it worth the tradeoff?
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#149So, experts, someone explain why it would take half a day to advertise your routes. What did they need to do?
1. Get physical access to the systems; employee badges were also offline, so they needed to bring in a different set of people with physical access to the premises. 2. Login directly to their systems and update the A-name record. 3. A-name records do not take effect immediately. There's a propagation delay as other DNS services accept the domain name. 4. Any sort of "damage assessment" to check the conditions of the…
It doesn’t sound to me like this was a DNS outage. Their records existed but their name servers were unreachable because they’d withdrawn their BGP route. So I don’t think the rest of your comment is really consistent with the available information.
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Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…
I think the question is, how do you keep the good and get rid of the bad? I think there's a lot of great things that social media has done to connect people, but all too often it's only a shallow or artificial connection. I think the other problem is that social media will make you find people "like" you. Humans have always sought that out, but there was always some variance that allowed us to remember that others un…
Don’t read political posts from sources you do not know/trust?