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Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by dang »

tsoukase wrote: post #199
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…

During the last week my IP was banned for unknown reason. Glad to hear it might not be a problem from my side.

Yes, sorry! This is the problem - we don't want to block legit users, but if we loosen the bolts, we get flooded.

If you browse HN while logged in, that should immunize you against this happening. Also, if it does happen again, you can unban your IP as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. But you have to do that from a different IP address, of course.

If those things don't work, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll get it sorted.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by walrus01 »

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…

Just out of curiosity, if HN is still running on one physical system, what does a daily or weekly traffic chart look like for the switch port facing it?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by xeonmc »

sgerenser wrote: post #234
kunwon1 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may interest you to know that pagers are still a thing, Motorola still makes them, and I know that one major use case is volunteer fire departments 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

Doctors on call at hospitals also routinely still use pagers. There was a planet money episode on it a couple years ago: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/1197955913/doctors-pagers-bee...

Do doctors in the Middle East also carry pagers?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by derrida »

powvans wrote: post #257
xandrius wrote: post #252

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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 y…

> huh, the next option is so far down my list that it's going to take me a moment to think of it.

Option 4: take your grab bag with the tcp over IP shortwave radio, sextant and head for pre-cached month supply of food in the hills.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by djmips »

dang wrote: post #175
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.

failing to manage HN in my sleep is more like it

I appreciate what you do. Hope you got some rest when it was all over.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by ZuoCen_Liu »

arccy wrote: post #217
Bender wrote: post #189

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How does this happen? Not the person you are asking. Bot operators have an incentive to make crawlers look as much like a human as possible so they do not get blocked. Some of them fail miserably and some nearly succeed. That makes it trivial to accidentally block a real person. I am personally fine with that given I do not pay for this site and have no SLA or contract with it.

some humans also try their best to make themselves look like bots...

lol

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by stmw »

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…

dang - just to say, we've all done it...

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by ZuoCen_Liu »

kunwon1 wrote: post #225
idontwantthis wrote: post #205

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Do you carry a literal pager? We use the PagerDuty app.

It may interest you to know that pagers are still a thing, Motorola still makes them, and I know that one major use case is volunteer fire departments 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

Now, whenever I see a pager, I think of explosions. Haha.
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