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It would be a nice feature if hackernews had a simple news.ycombinator.com/status page that I could trust. I don't like loading those some-sketchy-domain/status-right-now sites.
That's not so useful when news.ycombinator.com is having problems.
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Save typing hundreds of letters per day, and replace about:newtab with news.ycombinator.com, now you can just do CTRL+T :)
at that moment my productivity would drop to zero
On all fairness though, mine is same for the original comment where just pressing n autocompletes it to https://news.ycombinator.com/
Yes, sorry! We're investigating, but my current theory is we got overloaded because I relaxed some of our anti-crawler protections a few days ago. (The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users, and we don't want to block legit users. However, it seems that I turned the knobs down too far.) In this case, we also had a secondary failure: PagerDuty woke me up at 5:24…
Crazy that Dang literally manages HN in his sleep! We all knew that but I haven't seen any confirmation before this.
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I feel such a sense of kinship for anyone who carries a pager, almost 7 years at my current role doing it. Super cool that dang is among our number :)
Do you carry a literal pager? We use the PagerDuty app.
I used to work on Motorola Minitor 5 pagers. Looks like they recently released their newest model, the Minitor 7
I wonder if pagers are still used in hospitals? I imagine so
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Crazy that Dang literally manages HN in his sleep! We all knew that but I haven't seen any confirmation before this.
failing to manage HN in my sleep is more like it
I hope it doesn't change (much).
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…
(Basically whenever you see an x.com link just change it to xcancel.com and avoid the nonsense.)
Yes, sorry! We're investigating, but my current theory is we got overloaded because I relaxed some of our anti-crawler protections a few days ago. (The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users, and we don't want to block legit users. However, it seems that I turned the knobs down too far.) In this case, we also had a secondary failure: PagerDuty woke me up at 5:24…
> The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users How does this happen?