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It just reinforces for me that addiction is a human problem not a problem with technology I know dang basically works tirelessly to not change the format in order to not induce those addictive patterns but yet here we all are
But, would the addiction become worse if HN changed, or would there be a point where they could cure it?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. If I type 'n' into any browser it autocompletes to HN.
I had the same thing for Slashdot.org for many, many years. Both the reflex and the browser autocomplete. I still miss the old /. It was like HN + Hackaday + Usenet.
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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
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I didn't realize you were carrying the pager too! Kudos!
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 :)
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…
Was the blocking returning “Sorry.” instead of any page content? A couple of days ago there was a few hours where when I’d go to HN I could load the main page as a non-logged in user. But if I tried to log in I would get “Sorry.” instead. I also got the sorry message if I tried to click on user profiles of other people and a few other pages.
I am assuming that the reason I could see the front page itself and discussions on posts on the front page is that they were in a shared cache for non-logged in users, but that when I clicked on some pages like some random user pages those were not in cache and hit the origin server and it blocked those with “Sorry.” like it did for log-in attempts.
I also tried to go to the unblock IP page, but that one also returned “Sorry.”
For a while I was scratching my head wondering if I had gotten some malware on one of my computers that was aggressively making requests to HN, and that I had become IP banned because of that. Since I think my actual request rate from browsing and commenting should be pretty average. I read HN a lot, but not that much :p
Later in the day, or the next day, things were back to normal and I could log in again. Presumably after those anti-crawler protections had been relaxed again.
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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
There's a company in England called "Cascode" who make firefighter alerters. These are really basic "beeper" pagers, which you can program to have a bunch of different tones and LED patterns based on the RIC and Subcode. I look after several thousand of these across several hundred paging sites. They're relatively inexpensive (70 quid or so in quantity) and they last about six weeks on a commonly-available AA battery…