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I like hacker news but I don't think this site is worth getting paged over lol
You might be underestimating HN's popularity.
I think you're confusing popularity with criticality. I'm sure everyone in here can withstand a few hours without browsing the page.
TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex
You mean it's not your homepage?
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> It goes without saying HN is not the smartest or more thoughtful online community. How does that go without saying? Name some others then, compare and contrast. As-is your argument is just posturing.
> Name some others then, compare and contrast. No need, because whether an online community is more thoughtful or smarter than another is very subjective. Almost by definition, HN is not it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and all that. Of course, by internet law, HN (or a subset of its members) considers itself to be the smartest, more thoughtful online community. There are communities I like be…
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You might be underestimating HN's popularity.
> You might be underestimating HN's popularity. I think you're confusing popularity with criticality. I'm sure everyone in here can withstand a few hours without browsing the page.
It's dang's baby at this point, and this is a good thing, as long as HN doesn't affect his life in ways he doesn't want.
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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@ycombinat…
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> You might be underestimating HN's popularity. I think you're confusing popularity with criticality. I'm sure everyone in here can withstand a few hours without browsing the page.
If you like the thing you're managing, then its health is critical for you , not your users. It's dang's baby at this point, and this is a good thing, as long as HN doesn't affect his life in ways he doesn't want.
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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…
Encryption is easily doable even with one way pagers. With one way you will lose the perfect forward secrecy option but that's usually ok.
You wouldn't even need particularly good encryption, you'd just need something adequate to stop casual eavesdropping really - "keep them busy for half an hour" would stop people from sniffing the POCSAG traffic and tweeting it, so that people show up at incidents and hang around filming it on their phones.
This incidentally is what a guy in England got arrested for a few years ago, exactly that. It's perfectly legal to listen to and decode pager messages (or any other radio messages), you're just not allowed to pass them on to people or act upon them, and posting them on twitter and then going round to rubberneck at the ongoing incident very much ticks those boxes. As with so many things in the UK, to paraphrase Aleister Crowley, "Don't Be A Dick shall be the whole of the law".
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…
it is a shame that it needs to be this way. as a lurker who doesn't stay logged in nor use incognito mode, i have seen "Sorry" page way too often, even when opening the "past" page from the homepage.
truly hope you find a solution that reduces friction for all. personally, it is back to "Sorry" situation for now.
PS: for others facing a similar situation, it all disappears after logging in, which has been the most reliable solution thus far.