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Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by _shadi »

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…

> anti-crawler protections

what type of protections are used on HN? rate-limiting? ip range blacklist?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by bayindirh »

locknitpicker wrote: post #317
bayindirh wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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I have a pretty firm grip on life and touch plenty of grass both literally and figuratively.

However, when something I care about crashes and burns once in a blue moon, I make sure to put the fire out, at least to make it survive till regular hours. Things I care about can be both business and personal, and nobody bugs me for them.

Maybe we shouldn't make any assumptions about people we don't personally know, while we are at it.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by squeefers »

seizethecheese wrote: post #243
squeefers wrote: post #136

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> It's entirely possible that this is the smartest place on the internet, i cant find the link, but there was a post about how to "be nice" and it was a revelation to a worrying amount of "geniuses" on here. bare in mind the sum total of the advice was "be nice, dont be rude"

1. niceness and genius are orthogonal 2. your characterization of the article sounds uncharitable 3. my point isn't exactly that this is necessarily the smartest place

1. but social skills and genius are 2. im still staggered at how elementary it was 3. ok?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by the_af »

jrowen wrote: post #314
the_af wrote: post #247

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> 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…

I see you're downvoted, it wasn't me. I wasn't making any claim, you're making claims and disparaging remarks that you won't substantiate.

Which disparaging remarks? I just claimed HN is ok/average, not "the smartest place on the internet", and that it's typical of online communities to consider themselves "the best".

The unsubstantiated claim that "HN is the smartest place on the internet" is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence, which wasn't provided.

The downvotes only prove my point.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by phantasmish »

abustamam wrote: post #307
phantasmish wrote: post #298

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It’s ad-supported. Any post with comments disabled is definitely an ad. Probably a lot of the others are, too.

Your comment makes me realize that I consume HN differently than many others, because I've never seen a post with comments disabled and I've been around here for at least ten years. It's not that I don't think they don't exist — they obviously do because you're mentioning them. I've just never encountered one, primarily because I don't casually browse HN, ever. I subscribe to a pushbullet channel that notifies me whe…

> Anyway,anyone who finds themselves with a problem with HN should try that out :)

To be clear, I wasn’t complaining. Just pointing it out. Aside from any more speculative benefit to YC for running the site, the site does run outright ads.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by spacechild1 »

jacquesm wrote: post #295
giancarlostoro wrote: post #208

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Yeah we don't exactly pay to be on HN, not much to complain about. I appreciate everyone who works on HN.

We pay with content and with the fact that we attract the talent that eventually ends up powering ycombinator investment rounds.

Actually, I'm doing my best alienating these kind of people :p

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by notachatbot123 »

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

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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.

oh interesting (honestly!), how is that it distinguished?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by cheschire »

notachatbot123 wrote: post #327
cheschire wrote: post #231

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

oh interesting (honestly!), how is that it distinguished?

Don’t let me distract from this learning opportunity with my armchair expertise. There are a lot of articles out there for this exact topic, but here’s one that’s pretty good.

https://relevancerecovery.com/habit-vs-addiction/

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by abustamam »

phantasmish wrote: post #325
abustamam wrote: post #307

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Your comment makes me realize that I consume HN differently than many others, because I've never seen a post with comments disabled and I've been around here for at least ten years. It's not that I don't think they don't exist — they obviously do because you're mentioning them. I've just never encountered one, primarily because I don't casually browse HN, ever. I subscribe to a pushbullet channel that notifies me whe…

> Anyway,anyone who finds themselves with a problem with HN should try that out :) To be clear, I wasn’t complaining. Just pointing it out. Aside from any more speculative benefit to YC for running the site, the site does run outright ads.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you had a problem with ads. By "problem" I meant "if you find yourself procrastinating a lot" (not you specifically, but the reader in general)

Apologies for the misunderstanding

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by phantasmish »

abustamam wrote: post #329
phantasmish wrote: post #325

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> Anyway,anyone who finds themselves with a problem with HN should try that out :) To be clear, I wasn’t complaining. Just pointing it out. Aside from any more speculative benefit to YC for running the site, the site does run outright ads.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you had a problem with ads. By "problem" I meant "if you find yourself procrastinating a lot" (not you specifically, but the reader in general) Apologies for the misunderstanding

On, no issue here, no apology needed at all. I didn’t take it as any kind of dig, or even necessarily aimed at me (and if it was—still not offensive in any way). I’d almost edited my original comment right after posting because it occurred to me the tenseness might allow it to be interpreted as a complaint, and was just using your post as a jumping-off point to finally clarify that, is all.

I did miss exactly what you meant by “problem” in that passage, but get it now, so thanks for that.

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