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Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by malwrar »

geocrasher wrote: post #194
malwrar wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

Yep, have been on constant "pager duty" for 2+ years, although I have more help now and I get paged 1-3 times a week instead of per night. Still, carry my lappy everywhere I go. Bought an ARM Windows laptop to get that 20hr battery life so I could worry less during my travels. You know, fancy things like going get food or going grocery shopping.

Rough shift, my worst was every other week and my boss prior to hiring me was 24/7 just like you. I just carry a backpack with a few batteries + my work laptop, fortunately only a few really bad stories but hooooo boy me and that backpack have seen some fun times.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by xandrius »

dang wrote: post #144

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…

Hey dang, don't worry. It's just a site for reading articles and reacting to them.

Enjoy your deserved sleep and if for a couple of hours it's down, so be it.

Thanks for your continued service!

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by gaudystead »

qingcharles wrote: post #224
shlomo_z wrote: post #163

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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.

I was today years old when I found out Dan sleeps.

I was today years old when I found out that dang's first name is Dan

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by cbracketdash »

cheschire wrote: post #231
notachatbot123 wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a sign of addiction and I highly recommend changing your behaviour towards those pages!

I feel like I need to avoid channelling Bob Saget from Half Baked when I say that is not addiction. That's a habit.

There is a noprocrast feature in your settings to specify how long you can stay on for a single session and the frequency at which you can view HN. Super helpful!

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by dang »

Cheer2171 wrote: post #174
laCour wrote: post #122

I'm with Hund. Our hn.hund.io page did not catch this because it was requesting the cached, unauthenticated page. It now monitors authentication as well.

[flagged]

Yikes, you can't do this here.

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by powvans »

xandrius wrote: post #252
dang wrote: post #144

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…

Hey dang, don't worry. It's just a site for reading articles and reacting to them. Enjoy your deserved sleep and if for a couple of hours it's down, so be it. Thanks for your continued service!

100%

Though I will say, HN is a pretty great source of information about major outages like the recent AWS and Cloudflare issues. I had a moment this morning where I thought, oh, is there a larger issue and then, oh, HN is down, huh, the next option is so far down my list that it's going to take me a moment to think of it.

I hope that serves as a testament to how great this site and the community is. Thanks for all your hard work keeping it that way!

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by dang »

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…

We post there when we know we're down and it may take more than a few minutes. But in this case we didn't know! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303196

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by dang »

bicepjai wrote: post #182
dang wrote: post #144

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…

Even after providing firebase endpoint, crawlers come to the site ?

Oh my god. It's the crawlopalypse.
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