Tell HN: HN was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by smallerize » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

rozenmd wrote: post #9

ortusdux wrote: post #4

Looks like 3 hrs https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/yaz-eOJeARBL https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news Strangely, nothing from the statuspal, which is the first google result https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/

Interestingly it stayed up if you weren't logged in.

That only worked for a while, eventually I couldn't load comment pages even logged out.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by gjsman-1000 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

null_deref wrote: post #49

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #27

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Could this be a self-inflicted bug? In that case, the broader point still stands: cloud providers can cause outages that are outside your direct realm of responsibility.

Your VPS server and your data center and the ISP your data center uses and the AS system your ISP uses all can cause outages outside your direct realm of responsibility.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by rob » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

Maybe PG is more involved now and hired the "10,000 lines of AI code a day" person who made a deployment mistake?

https://x.com/paulg/status/1953289830982664236?s=46

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by tzs » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

wavemode wrote: post #16

When it was down my thought was "damnit, I'll actually have a productive workday now."

Next time you can avoid that fate by opening HN in a private browsing (or whatever your browser calls its equivalent) window. This outage, like the vast majority of HN outages, only affected logged in requests.

I suppose you could also just clear your HN cookies in regular browsing window, but then when they fix it you'd have to log in again.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by pcdoodle » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by null_deref » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #33

whatevermrfukz wrote: post #31

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I remember my first beer.

That Markov chain spiraled out of control

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by DonHopkins » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #27

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It's absolutely irresistible downvoting people who preemptively complain about being downvoted like you do. It really made my day. Post another complaint so I can do it again please! It's not knee jerk when you explicitly ask for it, by leading with a complaint about downvoting, instead of just making your point and letting it fall or rise on its own merits. You're the one who put the idea of downvoting you into my head in the first place.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by chistev » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #39

manbitesdog wrote: post #7

TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex

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

It's a website with the smartest people in the world. The level of conversations here are unrivaled in internet communities.

It's understandable to be addicted. Lol.

I visit this place multiple times a day.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by philipwhiuk » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

zzixp wrote: post #22

First AWS/Azure/Cloudflare and now HN?!?

Time to update the meme: https://preview.redd.it/cloudflare-had-a-rough-day-today-and...

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by abujazar » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #27

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Unless the downtime was caused by something Cloudflare would've prevented, this downtime would've happened regardless of being behind Cloudflare. Cloudflare adds another single point of failure.