Tell HN: HN was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#81

Post by neurolesudiste » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

Hi, Got an error an hour ago on phone, not loged.

Anyway, glad to see you back.

Paris 1812.

Cheers from France.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#82

Post by chistev » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:13 PM UTC

FergusArgyll wrote: post #15

Yeah & chatgpt was trying to gaslight me - claiming it was my fault. Happy to put that bum in its place...

You use ChatGPT to know if a site is down?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#83

Post by dizhn » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:13 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #61

esafak wrote: post #46

A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.

A lot of them got fooled by the caching; pages for signed-out users are cached heavily and those kept returning successful responses even if the actual backend server was down.

This site also got it right: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news

I believe it's because they accept user reports.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by gaigalas » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:13 PM UTC

I got confused by the "minutes ago" thing.

Working with full dates in the HTML and doing a tiny JavaScript that calculates the "minutes ago" would actually be a neat improvement.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by dzink » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:14 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

This one is at least healthy-ish for the mind. I’d much rather hacker news than any other news. Social Media is an emotional rage-bait cesspool these days. If it’s not for Hacker News those of us who abstain from the rest would be living in the dark.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#86

Post by liampulles » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

Smart. Have to use that error budget before year end...

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#87

Post by esafak » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

dizhn wrote: post #83

Nextgrid wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of them got fooled by the caching; pages for signed-out users are cached heavily and those kept returning successful responses even if the actual backend server was down.

This site also got it right: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news I believe it's because they accept user reports.

Yes! Now we see what a difference it makes.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#88

Post by PurpleRamen » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:16 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

But, would the addiction become worse if HN changed, or would there be a point where they could cure it?

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

#89

Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:16 PM UTC

manbitesdog wrote: post #7

TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex

So do I, but it was such a shock that I just passed out, and when I woke up, it was back up.

Re: Tell HN: HN was down

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Post by fatty_patty89 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

Jtsummers wrote: post #79

fatty_patty89 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that you mention that, how do you keep track of his comments? Some sort of plugin/scraper?

> how do you keep track of his comments? You can just look at them, turn on showdead in your profile and you'll see a bunch of flag-killed comments in this discussion by whatevermrfukz. No need for a plugin or scraper.

thank you