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Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

254 points by quicksnap 4y ago

Where'd you go? What'd you find? Glad it's back up now.. :)

redmen 4y ago
I lived life and was able to escape my addictions of being on here talking about mostly useless stuff all day and worrying about the future. It was nice and I wish there were more outages.
- tintedfireglass 4y ago
  And I thought most discussions on HN were helpful and high quality
  - krauses 4y ago
    Way to dangle that half-full glass of water in his face.
  - bittercynic 4y ago
    I think the quality and helpfulness differs pretty dramatically from one topic to another.
bbkane 4y ago
Cleaned up my desk and started backing up my (recently passed) brother in law's Surface. It got an expanding battery and we're worried it'll break and we'll lose all of his logins and pictures and docs.
- nfriedly 4y ago
  Sorry for your loss. It should be possible to replace the battery with a good one, e.g. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Battery+Pack+Replacement/12587 https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Battery+Pack+...
  - bbkane 4y ago
    Thank you, we'll probably try this
proactivesvcs 4y ago
Donated blood. This donation was tagged to be delivered to a neonatal unit. Please give blood if you can!
- jjtheblunt 4y ago
  how do you find how to donate blood?
  - proactivesvcs 4y ago
    It varies country-to-country. The best place to check is the main healthcare web site for your country or state.
  - felixnm 4y ago
    https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive
throwaway292939 4y ago
Founded a startup
- holler 4y ago
  Pied Piper?
ww520 4y ago
Nothing in particular. I checked HN in the morning. Hmm, it's down. I went ahead to have breakfast, played a round of games, called up some hotel to resolve some reservation issue, checked up on the various ways of embedding 3D model in html, watched some short Youtudes I meant to catch up, and went out of the house. In the evening when I checked again, it's up!
memorable 4y ago
I first go on Twitter to notice people about the down. Then visit the Is it down? website every few minutes to see the status.
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yababa_y 4y ago
I walked to the gas station, drank an iced coffee, ate a sandwich while listening to a book and enjoying the forest. Wrote a README for a project I've been working on the past week. Then I noticed HN was down :(
smashah 4y ago
Wondered if I had been banned.
300bps 4y ago
I prepared a spreadsheet of the approximate amount of karma I would’ve received had HN not been down and will be submitting a reimbursement request to dang.
stevenalowe 4y ago
By the time I finished reading the articles already opened in other tabs, HN was back up.
WhiteOwlEd 4y ago
I wrote ad copy for an Unreal Engine based, data visualization course that is hosted online. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization-metaverse/ https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization....
bloomingeek 4y ago
Turned my PC off, then on again.
chazeon 4y ago
Install a uptime-kuma[1] at my home server... Then get a Telegram notification while hacker news is up again. Actually I self-host more service myself and it was use to monitor those services. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
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pclmulqdq 4y ago
I did a lot of work on the company I am bootstrapping. I also read about the pcg random number generator, and a bit about the feuds between its inventor and a competing research group that invented the Xorshift random number generator.
fouric 4y ago
In a fit of irony, read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport.
PeterWhittaker 4y ago
Didn’t notice. Head down for work in the AM, spent the PM installing gutter shields. Good day!
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digitalsankhara 4y ago
Gave me time to take my annual shower and comb my greybeard.
mikewarot 4y ago
There's a material analogous to permanent magnets for charge... called an Electret. They are one of the reasons N-95 masks work. They also might shield gravity a bit. Now I need to get a 50kv DC power supply to make my own in bulk, and find out. I expect it to be interesting, but no new physics.
swat535 4y ago
Glad to know I wasn't the only one literally experiencing withdrawal symptoms as I continuously hit the reload button
amerine 4y ago
Kinda heads down in PR reviews today. Didn’t notice.
robotbikes 4y ago
I replaced the LCD assembly on a MacBook someone gave me with one I bought of eBay. Somehow I succeeded and I didn't even break any of the ribbon cables.
ge96 4y ago
Kept refreshing the Google news suggestions thing (swipe left on my Android phone's homescreen)
throwawaymaths 4y ago
I figured out how to set up an AWS ecs cluster (without fargate) manually.
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siskiyou 4y ago
Repaired a bicycle. Thankfully Shimano's site was up.
danso 4y ago
Discover OCRmyPDF (embed an OCR layer into a PDF from the command line), and then repeatedly check if HN was up so I could submit it https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- tommiegannert 4y ago
  Cool. Anyone know how this relates/compares to Paperless-NG?
mysterydip 4y ago
refresh... ok, now refresh... It won't be up that quick, you have to be patient! ... refresh...
binarynate 4y ago
I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and was blown away by the collections there. I didn’t have nearly enough time to see everything, but I particularly enjoyed the Architecture and Design gallery. I would have had less time there if HN was up because I tried to check it before leaving.
jimnotgym 4y ago
I browsed old tools, stationary engines, and motorbikes I will never buy on Facebook marketplace. Start a rubbish piece of software, proving again that reach is the most important thing these days
tiborsaas 4y ago
I've fallen a bit deeper into a clickhole and ended up at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral
MrDresden 4y ago
Me and my partner walked the town in the sun, had ramen soup at the pier, checked out an art gallery then had some coffee. After coming home we opened up some nice german weissbiers and watched Brazil. This morning the forecast was rain, and I expected the day to turn out much worse.
- klipt 4y ago
  Brazil is a gem.
O__________O 4y ago
Listing out all the HN systems I could check, for example API stayed up whole time. _________ Obviously, the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ HN’s official status page: https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus This URL checks if the API is up: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pret... HN Search Engine: https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com AWS Route 53 status, it is the service that manages HN’s DNS: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws YC DNS record: https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com HN’s official email: hn@ycombinator.com Note: Intentionally left off YC, since it appears to be unrelated beyond the DNS. _________ Forgot something, let me know. Thanks!
- O__________O 4y ago
  Appears HN is currently on AWS: https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=https://news.ycombinator... http://50.112.136.166/ http://50.112.136.166/ https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=50.112.136.166 https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=50.112.136.166
- O__________O 4y ago
  Here’s an unofficial HN uptime log for HN https://hn.hund.io/ https://hn.hund.io/
maxfurman 4y ago
My job lol
xwdv 4y ago
Learned how to program NES games
JohnHaugeland 4y ago
The same thing we do every night, Pinky.
- jdshaffer 4y ago
  Right, Brain, but where are we going to get all that cream cheese?
  - JohnHaugeland 4y ago
    But where will we ever find rubber pants our size?
formerkrogemp 4y ago
I worked. For once :(.
zabi_rauf 4y ago
Restarted my phone thinking something wrong with it. Then changed to Cloudflare DNS instead of PiHole thinking it maybe pihole issue. Because when does HN ever go down :D
- archi42 4y ago
  I feel you: I recently migrated my network setup to a VM based solution and it has been a bit volatile the first week; especially while I tweaked it or learned some details. But it worked well for the last week, and all of a sudden HN doesn't work... Pihole? Ipv6 or ipv4? Random libvirt iptables? Opnsense unhappy? Thank God for isitdownorjustme!
nsomaru 4y ago
Kept refreshing
mywacaday 4y ago
Refresh.......refresh....... refresh...........
lubien 4y ago
Touch grass
max23_ 4y ago
Called it a day and went to sleep.
dllthomas 4y ago
I kept wanting to talk about the outage on HN.
tcfhgj 4y ago
I tried to refresh the website to check if it finally worked again
holler 4y ago
worked, tried to figure out why my elasticsearch cluster went bye bye
cosmojg 4y ago
Learned Svelte!
samizdis 4y ago
I did my usual (probably excessive) amount of news/periodicals reading, but grew frustrated frequently that I couldn't post to HN to get comments/input from others. One notable example (during the first of yesterday's outages) was an NYT article [1] The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles. This hadn't been submitted to HN at the time (as far as I could tell), but it's there now [2] - sadly, with no comments at the time of posting this. Anyhow, the article referred to "3-D printing" to make copies of the marbles, but the writing was confused and to me it looked like automated carving, so I wanted to post it to see what others here thought. As it happens, having just checked the article again, the original copy has been amended to read "3-D machining" rather than "3-D printing" - but there's no correction notice to say that the article was changed. Mind you, the clue is still in the url: ... science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html Without HN, then, I read my stock sites as usual, but felt deeply that I missed the sanity-checks/informed input from HN commenters. It was lonely, in a way, and also made me fret about my missing issues with articles that usually others at HN would point out; different perspectives, questions about credibility or robustness of stats/data/methods of obtaining info on which articles might rely. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026156
zakki 4y ago
I have a good night sleep.
jasoneckert 4y ago
I spent some time watching some stuff on YouTube, including Part 1 of a documentary about Oracle and how they changed the database world. I can't wait for the SQL...
- ayewo 4y ago
  Do you have the link handy?
borissk 4y ago
Didn't know it was down :D
- randomdata 4y ago
  25% of Canadian internet users would have said the same thing if they could.
jszymborski 4y ago
I waited in line for four hours at a Canadian passport office.
happy-go-lucky 4y ago
It felt like a void that was difficult to replace.
6502nerdface 4y ago
I rode my motorcycle to the beach where I helped a little girl build sand castles and capture mole crabs in a bucket. Then we released the mole crabs and I rode back home to hackernews.
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andsoitis 4y ago
I read a book. Went to the gym.
oblib 4y ago
I went and checked https://brutalist.report/ https://brutalist.report/ to see what the latest HN posts they had, read the headlines and then moved on. A few hours later I went to HN and they were back. I wasn't worried about it, I figured dang and others were working on it and would have things back online. I do depend on HN for taking a break from coding though and it was tough not getting my fix on demand :D
dtmmax33 4y ago
I was at the beach today and didn't realize it was down.
peapicker 4y ago
Finished mastering my latest EP and uploading it for release on Monday. Also did a bit of compiler warning cleanup on multiple UNiXes for next release new code work.
didip 4y ago
I was sick, so I slept a lot and didn't even noticed HN went down.
Terry_Roll 4y ago
Handed out a couple grams of nicotinic acid, explained the flush, taught some people how to surf, explained how wifi radar works, how to hack various devices, how to avoid getting a speeding ticket, explained how a chemical in 1 litre of grapefruit juice is enough to slow up the liver metabolism of some medication which can put you in an embarrassing potentially life threatening situation if one is a male who has taken 50mg of sildenafil and more...
sidcool 4y ago
I got existential crisis and withdrawals. Looks like I am addicted to HN :)
eimrine 4y ago
I have read some beautiful articles and pdf from HN which were in my browser bookmarks.
gigatexal 4y ago
I was hella bored.
glotchimo 4y ago
I missed it, must have been working or something silly like that
manquer 4y ago
Called my ISP and complained that internet was not working as HN didn't load.
shakezula 4y ago
I wrote a little toy library for tracking magic the gathering boardstate changes.
chefkoch 4y ago
Press F5
Agentlien 4y ago
I didn't realise it was down. It depends on for how long it was down. Gardening, cooking and eating dinner, getting the children ready for bed, watching TV.
elasticventures 4y ago
I found a job and got hired.
viper00 4y ago
I hope Hacker News is never down because knowledge is never down.
akpa1 4y ago
I hacked a couple of Ansible playbooks around and made them do things in an arguably better manner than they did before
dwd 4y ago
Slept right through it. Funny thing about being in a completely different time zone.
772eaerttac 4y ago
I found that Twitter still exists :))
ImKevinArcher 4y ago
I was working too much, so glad it's back too. Needed a break asap!
TheSmoke 4y ago
I visited San Francisco in June 2013 and worked at an office for a month. I had a habit of browsing HN and Twitter during the working hours and from the work computer. I was also very productive. Always got things done. Days go by and I observe people working. I realized that many people would spend time on social media only when they were having lunch and were extremely productive the rest of the day. I thought to myself “If I am working then what these people are doing and if they are working then what is it that I am doing?” I seriously questioned myself and made a decision. No more social media on the work computer and during the working hours. Ever since then I am only reading HN and Twitter when I am on my phone when I am on a break. I haven’t even realized HN was down.
NickRandom 4y ago
I had to resort to unabated onanism during the outage. I am now 30 pounds lighter and when I walk it sounds like two dried beans rattling round in an empty coffee can. P.S. This is one of those comments where I debated 'should I or shouldn't I post it' so probably not a good idea to do so but meh, what the heck. Dan & co did a sterling job and it sounds like the CEO of M5 gained some useful insight so every cloud has a silver lining etc
aw9f70gae 4y ago
I made a linting plugin and learned about ASTs
thdespou 4y ago
Didn't realize it was down...
fuzzfactor 4y ago
Slipped under my radar. How long was it? Is there any post-mortem? >Where'd you go? Depends on how long it was out. >What'd you find? Now I find if you spend too much time away from the internet, you'll never keep up with what's happening in the real world. Or something like that.
_benj 4y ago
I “discovered” Destiny 2… and now I have two addictions! :D
Kenneth39 4y ago
I would cry.
timeon 4y ago
Tour de France
galgot 4y ago
I opened Lynx and went there : gopher://hngopher.com:70/1/
tus666 4y ago
I was sleeping.
hansword 4y ago
I went for a long walk to the cemetery.
AdamGibbins 4y ago
Hit F5.
cupofpython 4y ago
(What is this, reddit?) I checked news sources more directly from the websites i am personally familiar with instead of using the hacker news front page as a filter + expanded domain
reachableceo 4y ago
I went to Reddit and lobste.rs . Was horrible! (Not really ).
- kasperset 4y ago
  My thoughts exactly!
quicksnap 4y ago
While waiting for tests to run, I was directed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
jjgreen 4y ago
Rocked backward-and-forward with my arms crossed.
FredPret 4y ago
I actually worked, amazing what you can get done if there’s nothing else to do
onion2k 4y ago
I did far more work than usual and now my product lead is going to expect this to happen every sprint. They'll be so disappointed.
- cosmotic 4y ago
  Just explain that it's unsustainable regardless.
- Sakos 4y ago
  I was so productive I managed to finish the work inside of a day that I've been having trouble with the past two weeks. Maybe HN should have planned blackouts? :D
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- muh_gradle 4y ago
  Interesting. I fell into a hopeless pit of despair and got far less work done as a result. I need my soma fix.
- ghetzel 4y ago
  Finish the tickets, but don't close the tickets ;)
  - haggy102 4y ago
    This is the way
    - ezekg 4y ago
      I used to feel really bad about this until I learned a lot of other programmers do the same thing. Work hard and fast for a little while when you’re motivated, relax a lot when you’re not.
      - dieselgate 4y ago
jspaetzel 4y ago
Wrote tickets in Jira
- wdfx 4y ago
  I found myself reconfiguring Jira
raffraffraff 4y ago
Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
devin 4y ago
I worked out and took a long walk.
gffrd 4y ago
I got some work done for once. There's my 2.35 hours of work for the month!
chainwax 4y ago
I got most of the way there to hosting a small site from a pi. Got hung up on port forwarding on Fios. I'll figure it out though.
silisili 4y ago
Checked HN, watched it spin for about 10 seconds before going elsewhere, then trying again 8 seconds later out of habit mostly. Rinse and repeat.
2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Escape from Tarkov
mgh2 4y ago
Blind. There are some trolls like with anything, but sometimes there is good content from tech workers. There might be an overlap of demographics... largely Indians under H1B https://www.teamblind.com/ https://www.teamblind.com/
Apreche 4y ago
I didn't even notice. I only check this site via RSS.
petewailes 4y ago
Got the second to last module finished on the theatre of mind focused VVT I'm building. We're launching in Sept.
RheingoldRiver 4y ago
Watched HugoConf https://hugoconf.io/ https://hugoconf.io/
- brycewray 4y ago
  Same. Allowed more focus on it.
ericskiff 4y ago
https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
bsima 4y ago
I cleaned my office and moved furniture while waiting for compiles to finish. Got the keyboard next to my desk now, hopefully this encourages me to practice more often. Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see the day
itsmemattchung 4y ago
Nothing. I was useless
zzixp 4y ago
Work :(
inasio 4y ago
I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years, probably. Still there...
- onion2k 4y ago
  I had loads of +5 Funny comments there about 20 years ago. Hard to believe, I know.
- ssl232 4y ago
  I checked in there a few months ago and regretted it. It's like while I'm now ten years older, it stayed the same age (well, those commenting).
  - tpmx 4y ago
    Same, but I'm now 20 years older.
    - koonsolo 4y ago
      Almost the same for me. It's for sure 10 years ago, but when I do the calculation, it's 20. :'(
      - tpmx 4y ago
        https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3716/is-mathematics-always-correct https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3716/is-mathe... ;)
- deltarholamda 4y ago
  I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion. It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.
  - john-tells-all 4y ago
rozenmd 4y ago
I released the first version of a status page driven by uptime monitoring an hour before the first outage. Figured I'd point it at Hacker News to get an update when my uptime monitoring detected it was up again. The second outage gave me time to dogfood it a bit: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD
- gffrd 4y ago
  So … are you saying you're responsible for the outage?
  - rozenmd 4y ago
    I mean... if the demo-gods were behaving as usual, the outage would never have happened
jeanlucas 4y ago
HN was down? For how long?
ardit33 4y ago
Checking out Blind .... I love HN but Blind is more entertaining for sure.
- layer8 4y ago
  In what way? Just curious.
  - ardit33 4y ago
    It is like a giant watercooler for most tech companies out there... full of gossip and other silliness. If you don't take it too seriously, it is a fun and entertaining place, also people keep it more real as people don't hold the punches. (due to anonymity). Also it is a good place to know about tech interviewing in general, what to do, leveling, negotiation. It servers as a mini forum/guild for tech folks. It can be very helpful on that aspect.
    - muzani 4y ago
      It feels very fake and theatrical to me, almost like a wrestling ring. That makes it entertaining at times, but anonymity also means no accountability. I'm far more inclined to believe someone on HN who are at least willing to risk their reputation on a claim. On Blind, you can go ahead and claim you make $600k salary working 4 days/week after 18 months of grueling interviews. Write up whatever fan fiction as long as it makes sense.
- jstx1 4y ago
  Blind is a guilty pleasure, I know how toxic the place is but sometimes I just can't look away.
- irrational 4y ago
  I’d never heard of blind. I downloaded the app to try it out. Oh, they need my work email for verification? Hell no. I understand the rationale, but they do know that IT can see all my work emails, right?
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_Algernon_ 4y ago
Wore down the F5 button.
joshstrange 4y ago
Opened reddit, got disappointed, opened new tab, typed "n", hit enter, and then my brain caught up with muscle memory and I got more disappointed. I watched a lot of progress bars and actually watched the CLI output for things building.
- _fat_santa 4y ago
  Open the browser and type out "news.", sigh when you see the prefill for "ycombinator.com" and have to change it to "google.com".
mholt 4y ago
Worked on updating and improving Caddy's documentation. We're releasing v2.5.2 today or tomorrow!
- proactivesvcs 4y ago
  Caddy is fabulous. Thank you!
toddm 4y ago
Went to the liquor store.
Unbeliever69 4y ago
Solved the Riemann hypothesis
j_kao 4y ago
To be facetious... work.
spacemanmatt 4y ago
It was down?
migueloller 4y ago
I started reading Crafting Interpreters [1]. It's great so far! [1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/
- memorable 4y ago
  Hope you are having a great journey with it!
- CSMastermind 4y ago
  Oh super interesting! This goes onto the reading list.
  - chocolatemario 4y ago
    the old monotonically growing reading list. I must figure out a way to organize mine better
    - zelphirkalt 4y ago
      Easy! Make another list of things, which are _excellent_ reads.
hans1729 4y ago
I smugly commented "Dang" on one of the status updates on twitter and spent time with my girlfriend. Now HN is up again and I spend time consuming meta-content regarding the outage (such as this thread). Have a great weekend everyone!
TedShiller 4y ago
Reloaded https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus
wffurr 4y ago
Took a nap. Read Your Local Epidemiologist and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.
oneepic 4y ago
Practiced a speedrun for a weekend event my friends and I hold every so often. Nowhere near the world record, but we don't care!
tekknolagi 4y ago
Still didn't do much work :D
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christophilus 4y ago
Curled up in the corner, hugged myself and rocked back and forth, sobbing inconsolably.
- Layke1123 4y ago
  Comfort is coming.
marginalia_nu 4y ago
A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm beginning to realize just how powerful this is. Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))' and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not great with JQ, so there's probably a better way of doing this, but this unga bunga approach works too) Specifically, today I did some research on a few tags and headers supposedly associated with "Acceptable Ads" (a standard for showing ads through complicit adblockers), and ended up with a fairly reliable fingerprint for a network of domain squatters that have been a nuisance in my search engine database. Turns out they're basically the only ones that use the headers and tags I was looking at, so now I'm onto their IP-ranges as well.
- BonoboIO 4y ago
  So the Domain squatter pays to let Adblockers show ads on their sites?
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    Yeah, appears to be something like that. Very convenient for me.
- higerordermap 4y ago
  I don't have much context about your technical requirements but can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    It's a tradeoff between ease of writing, and ease of reading for indexing, and freeform analytical usecases like this. JSON caters to all fairly well. It's one file per domain, so looking at specific urls is no prob with this setup.
moomoo11 4y ago
Lol I was trying to reach the site every 20 min when I take my 30s break.
alberth 4y ago
Hit refresh more times than I should admit.
mentos 4y ago
Wondered how HN might best implement mandatory offline periods during the day. I’m thinking something like it’s offline for an hour every other hour so only a total of 12 hours uptime a day.
- qwertox 4y ago
  I think it should be made an entire 24h unannounced once a month on a random workday.
- layer8 4y ago
  It should be random so one can’t plan around it.
- sva_ 4y ago
  Or maybe we should all learn some self-control instead.
  - archi42 4y ago
    Don't be silly. I'd write an elaborate explanation why that's statistically likely for tech workers to be easily distracted by shiny things and how HN is triggers this, but I have to sneak out of bed now so I can setup uptime-kuma (which I just learned about). ;-)
- mdaniel 4y ago
  On the off chance you haven't seen it, that's what "noprocrast" does in your profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html While looking up that link, TIL about what "delay" does, too, so thank you :-)
kamranjon 4y ago
I read half way through this free book by Sven Yrvind called “WITH FOUR SQUARE METERS OF SAIL AND ONE OAR” which is sort of a manifesto about building small boats and living simply. He’s a super interesting guy, I don’t even know how to sail and I was pretty glued to it. Not sure why I decided to latch on and go deep on the subject but you can find it here if you’re interested: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ex_lex_eng.pdf https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ex_lex_eng...
- jarrenae 4y ago
  I've been on a sailing kick recently, and think you'd like this vlog featuring Sven and one of his boats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bca5_uyH9E4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bca5_uyH9E4 The sheer utility of every component of the craft is awesome.
- diablerouge 4y ago
  Yrvind is such a legend - he has had me on a micro-cruiser kick for quite a while now. He has a youtube channel that's worth checking out - he's a character that's fun to listen to as well. Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession): You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers. A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and breaking all the rules of traditional boat design. The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood and epoxy. There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design. OK, infodump over.
  - password4321 4y ago
    I appreciate the info, HN is my human search engine.
  - zwarag 4y ago
quickthrower2 4y ago
Didn’t notice it. Was with relatives.
account-5 4y ago
Continually refreshed until HN was back.
travisgriggs 4y ago
Started doing the Jetpack Compose tutorial(s) for like the 3rd time and thought: "Everything changes, but nothing changes. I am paid to stay atop this schizophrenic elephant of an industry." Then took another gulp of ItsGonnaBeBetterThisTime KoolAid.
- muzani 4y ago
  We've implemented Compose in production for a few months now. It's actually been my favorite new thing. Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay. The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probably better to try building something, paying for a book, or just reverse engineering something off GitHub.
  - travisgriggs 4y ago
    In some ways I like it already as well. Doing things in code instead of XML is nice. My real struggle is knowing what different citizens of the Android lineage are are "current". Views and ViewGroups are kinda out. But ViewModels are still Good. I have no idea about Fragments and Activities and Intents. It's like every class in the system needs one of 3 badges: "Still a Club Member", "Stinky Poo Poo, DONT use this anymore", "Use if you have to, but we're hoping to make this go away some day, so keep your eyes out here."
    - muzani 4y ago
      I hear you. The badges actually exist, but they're not very useful. Material Design is way up in the club member territory, but my gut feeling is they're not very committed to. On the other hand, they have @ExperimentalApi slapped all over things like Compose and Flow but those are probably here to stay. Flutter seems like it's dangling close to the chopping board. I feel sorry for all the people who think that it's going to stay because Google.
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messutied 4y ago
I created this unofficial Hacker News status page so I could subscribe and get notified once HN comes back up :) https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/ https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/
- password4321 4y ago
  Nice! There's also the official https://twitter.com/hnstatus https://twitter.com/hnstatus
A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
Lol. There was actually a lot of work so it really did work out well for me:P
tr1ll10nb1ll 4y ago
Wonder why Rogers is down. Oh, and it's still not up and I'm still not getting verification codes :)
clintonwoo 4y ago
Read whatever was up on HN before it went down on https://remix.hnclone.win https://remix.hnclone.win ha ha
likortera 4y ago
Hit reload like crazy. I was desperate.
misiti3780 4y ago
worked.
DantesKite 4y ago
Prayed.
27182818284 4y ago
Looked up alternative ways of castling in chess because I'm very bored of the standard kingside and queenside castling so, I was trying to find strategies using the old style of play like before the two-piece-one-move castling of today was formed. Right now it seems a lot of games I play online end up with the same openings. Chess 960 helps with that, but I don't like to play that all the time either.
karlzt 4y ago
I went to the fourth dimension while sleeping.
openthc 4y ago
Took a little break ;) Played some Rocket League
fnordpiglet 4y ago
Wept savagely and uncontrollably
petsormeat 4y ago
Walked outdoors in the sunshine.
jacklyn577 4y ago
I got confused and thought something was wrong with my internet
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luxuryballs 4y ago
Started coding a replacement /s
hericium 4y ago
_WHY_ is it down?
culopatin 4y ago
I flew across the Atlantic so didn’t notice
frompdx 4y ago
I set up a bookshelf and finally unpacked all of my books.
pilom 4y ago
HN was down?
TheMiddleMan 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/GpmUla5.png https://i.imgur.com/GpmUla5.png
DiabloD3 4y ago
HN was down? Huh.
rcurry 4y ago
I went and cried in a corner.
BeFlatXIII 4y ago
Work.
roxaaaane 4y ago
I did more work lol mostly taking care of the bottom of the list Improvements a few small PRs here and there..
adamius 4y ago
Played with lua as a kernel module.
Syonyk 4y ago
Pulled two solar panels off one of my arrays, because a few of them have hot junction boxes from bad connections. Replaced those with spares and got the array back fully online (one of them has been bypassed for arc fault warnings that, digging into the junction box, look legit). Then I replaced all the fancy, spring loaded, "replace the back of the junction box for new functionality!" interface stuff with some vintage, 1980s style soldering and bypass diodes. Because I don't care about the optimizers on my well-sited array with no shading, and I don't need rapid shutdown for a ground mount array, etc. And then proceeded to short the leads, put them in the sun, and ensure that the junction box guts didn't get hot, while observing just how brutal on panels doing this is - you really highlight the difference between cells thermally, when in "normal running," you don't see any differences in the array. And now I'm writing all this up as a blog post. :)
cahoot_bird 4y ago
Was going through the who is hiring thread then noticed it was down, took a nap than got supper
tmaly 4y ago
I took the kids to the water park. Great day for it.
unzadunza 4y ago
I recorded a song on my guitar. It is so bad it makes me sick to my stomach.
- rolph 4y ago
  once you have a good development for mechanical aspects you absolutely should record yourself and listen, so you can train your ears for the sound. your own ears will lie to you a lot, and the room/hall acoustics matter. the signal gear for amped instruments matters as well. if you want to play for people you have to train your ears so that you know what good sound, sounds like to most people.
- FigurativeVoid 4y ago
  Well it’s at least a start! Keep recording. :)
- klipt 4y ago
  Jonathan Coulton started by writing one thing a week. Most of them were meh but there were some that were good. Turns out the important thing is perseverance.
- spaceisballer 4y ago
  Kudos to you on doing it. I’ve played guitar for twenty plus years and never had the guts to record myself.
- AlphaWeaver 4y ago
  The act of creating something deserves to be celebrated, even if it doesn't meet your standards for quality! Good job!
black_puppydog 4y ago
Annoying friends with lengthy discussions about gun politics, tech ethics, and the latest gadgets...
spiffytech 4y ago
I ran some errands, then did watercolor painting with my wife :)
barsonme 4y ago
my job :)
irrational 4y ago
Watched the latest Shut Up and Sit Down board game review video. Now I’m wondering if I should get the Air, Sea, and Land expansion and/or Space Station Phoenix.
anigbrowl 4y ago
Not notice
jmpman 4y ago
Worked. It sucked.
freedude 4y ago
I read a Brian Krebs article I had missed made two phone calls and got some paperwork done. Quite a productive Friday. ;-)
tomcam 4y ago
I took up smoking
hintymad 4y ago
Eh… Duolingo? Or other bite-sized language material. I personally like Beelinguapp. Its readings are small enough yet are quite fun to read for a beginner
Tade0 4y ago
Went for a walk with my toddler. We found bits of broken glass on the playground. There was an attempt to ingest them, but I prevented that from happening.
jazzyjackson 4y ago
assumed my internet was out and read a book for once "masks of the illuminati"

254 points by quicksnap 4y ago

Where'd you go? What'd you find? Glad it's back up now.. :)

I lived life and was able to escape my addictions of being on here talking about mostly useless stuff all day and worrying about the future. It was nice and I wish there were more outages.

tintedfireglass 4y ago
And I thought most discussions on HN were helpful and high quality
- krauses 4y ago
  Way to dangle that half-full glass of water in his face.
- bittercynic 4y ago
  I think the quality and helpfulness differs pretty dramatically from one topic to another.

bbkane 4y ago

Cleaned up my desk and started backing up my (recently passed) brother in law's Surface. It got an expanding battery and we're worried it'll break and we'll lose all of his logins and pictures and docs.

nfriedly 4y ago
Sorry for your loss. It should be possible to replace the battery with a good one, e.g. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Battery+Pack+Replacement/12587 https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Microsoft+Surface+Battery+Pack+...
- bbkane 4y ago
  Thank you, we'll probably try this

proactivesvcs 4y ago

Donated blood. This donation was tagged to be delivered to a neonatal unit. Please give blood if you can!

jjtheblunt 4y ago
how do you find how to donate blood?
- proactivesvcs 4y ago
  It varies country-to-country. The best place to check is the main healthcare web site for your country or state.
- felixnm 4y ago
  https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/find-drive

throwaway292939 4y ago

Founded a startup

holler 4y ago
Pied Piper?

ww520 4y ago

Nothing in particular. I checked HN in the morning. Hmm, it's down. I went ahead to have breakfast, played a round of games, called up some hotel to resolve some reservation issue, checked up on the various ways of embedding 3D model in html, watched some short Youtudes I meant to catch up, and went out of the house. In the evening when I checked again, it's up!

memorable 4y ago

I first go on Twitter to notice people about the down. Then visit the Is it down? website every few minutes to see the status.

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yababa_y 4y ago

I walked to the gas station, drank an iced coffee, ate a sandwich while listening to a book and enjoying the forest. Wrote a README for a project I've been working on the past week. Then I noticed HN was down :(

smashah 4y ago

Wondered if I had been banned.

300bps 4y ago

I prepared a spreadsheet of the approximate amount of karma I would’ve received had HN not been down and will be submitting a reimbursement request to dang.

stevenalowe 4y ago

By the time I finished reading the articles already opened in other tabs, HN was back up.

WhiteOwlEd 4y ago

I wrote ad copy for an Unreal Engine based, data visualization course that is hosted online. Details at https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization-metaverse/ https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization....

bloomingeek 4y ago

Turned my PC off, then on again.

chazeon 4y ago

Install a uptime-kuma[1] at my home server... Then get a Telegram notification while hacker news is up again. Actually I self-host more service myself and it was use to monitor those services. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

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pclmulqdq 4y ago

I did a lot of work on the company I am bootstrapping. I also read about the pcg random number generator, and a bit about the feuds between its inventor and a competing research group that invented the Xorshift random number generator.

fouric 4y ago

In a fit of irony, read the book Deep Work by Cal Newport.

PeterWhittaker 4y ago

Didn’t notice. Head down for work in the AM, spent the PM installing gutter shields. Good day!

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digitalsankhara 4y ago

Gave me time to take my annual shower and comb my greybeard.

mikewarot 4y ago

There's a material analogous to permanent magnets for charge... called an Electret. They are one of the reasons N-95 masks work. They also might shield gravity a bit. Now I need to get a 50kv DC power supply to make my own in bulk, and find out. I expect it to be interesting, but no new physics.

swat535 4y ago

Glad to know I wasn't the only one literally experiencing withdrawal symptoms as I continuously hit the reload button

amerine 4y ago

Kinda heads down in PR reviews today. Didn’t notice.

robotbikes 4y ago

I replaced the LCD assembly on a MacBook someone gave me with one I bought of eBay. Somehow I succeeded and I didn't even break any of the ribbon cables.

ge96 4y ago

Kept refreshing the Google news suggestions thing (swipe left on my Android phone's homescreen)

throwawaymaths 4y ago

I figured out how to set up an AWS ecs cluster (without fargate) manually.

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siskiyou 4y ago

Repaired a bicycle. Thankfully Shimano's site was up.

danso 4y ago

Discover OCRmyPDF (embed an OCR layer into a PDF from the command line), and then repeatedly check if HN was up so I could submit it https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

tommiegannert 4y ago
Cool. Anyone know how this relates/compares to Paperless-NG?

mysterydip 4y ago

refresh... ok, now refresh... It won't be up that quick, you have to be patient! ... refresh...

binarynate 4y ago

I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and was blown away by the collections there. I didn’t have nearly enough time to see everything, but I particularly enjoyed the Architecture and Design gallery. I would have had less time there if HN was up because I tried to check it before leaving.

jimnotgym 4y ago

I browsed old tools, stationary engines, and motorbikes I will never buy on Facebook marketplace. Start a rubbish piece of software, proving again that reach is the most important thing these days

tiborsaas 4y ago

I've fallen a bit deeper into a clickhole and ended up at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_spiral

MrDresden 4y ago

Me and my partner walked the town in the sun, had ramen soup at the pier, checked out an art gallery then had some coffee. After coming home we opened up some nice german weissbiers and watched Brazil. This morning the forecast was rain, and I expected the day to turn out much worse.

klipt 4y ago
Brazil is a gem.

O__________O 4y ago

Listing out all the HN systems I could check, for example API stayed up whole time. _________ Obviously, the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ HN’s official status page: https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus https://mobile.twitter.com/hnstatus This URL checks if the API is up: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pret... HN Search Engine: https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com AWS Route 53 status, it is the service that manages HN’s DNS: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-dns-for-aws YC DNS record: https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=ycombinator.com HN’s official email: hn@ycombinator.com Note: Intentionally left off YC, since it appears to be unrelated beyond the DNS. _________ Forgot something, let me know. Thanks!

O__________O 4y ago
Appears HN is currently on AWS: https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=https://news.ycombinator... http://50.112.136.166/ http://50.112.136.166/ https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=50.112.136.166 https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=50.112.136.166
O__________O 4y ago
Here’s an unofficial HN uptime log for HN https://hn.hund.io/ https://hn.hund.io/

maxfurman 4y ago

My job lol

xwdv 4y ago

Learned how to program NES games

JohnHaugeland 4y ago

The same thing we do every night, Pinky.

jdshaffer 4y ago
Right, Brain, but where are we going to get all that cream cheese?
- JohnHaugeland 4y ago
  But where will we ever find rubber pants our size?

formerkrogemp 4y ago

I worked. For once :(.

zabi_rauf 4y ago

Restarted my phone thinking something wrong with it. Then changed to Cloudflare DNS instead of PiHole thinking it maybe pihole issue. Because when does HN ever go down :D

archi42 4y ago
I feel you: I recently migrated my network setup to a VM based solution and it has been a bit volatile the first week; especially while I tweaked it or learned some details. But it worked well for the last week, and all of a sudden HN doesn't work... Pihole? Ipv6 or ipv4? Random libvirt iptables? Opnsense unhappy? Thank God for isitdownorjustme!

nsomaru 4y ago

Kept refreshing

mywacaday 4y ago

Refresh.......refresh....... refresh...........

lubien 4y ago

Touch grass

max23_ 4y ago

Called it a day and went to sleep.

dllthomas 4y ago

I kept wanting to talk about the outage on HN.

tcfhgj 4y ago

I tried to refresh the website to check if it finally worked again

holler 4y ago

worked, tried to figure out why my elasticsearch cluster went bye bye

cosmojg 4y ago

Learned Svelte!

samizdis 4y ago

I did my usual (probably excessive) amount of news/periodicals reading, but grew frustrated frequently that I couldn't post to HN to get comments/input from others. One notable example (during the first of yesterday's outages) was an NYT article [1] The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles. This hadn't been submitted to HN at the time (as far as I could tell), but it's there now [2] - sadly, with no comments at the time of posting this. Anyhow, the article referred to "3-D printing" to make copies of the marbles, but the writing was confused and to me it looked like automated carving, so I wanted to post it to see what others here thought. As it happens, having just checked the article again, the original copy has been amended to read "3-D machining" rather than "3-D printing" - but there's no correction notice to say that the article was changed. Mind you, the clue is still in the url: ... science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html Without HN, then, I read my stock sites as usual, but felt deeply that I missed the sanity-checks/informed input from HN commenters. It was lonely, in a way, and also made me fret about my missing issues with articles that usually others at HN would point out; different perspectives, questions about credibility or robustness of stats/data/methods of obtaining info on which articles might rely. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026156

zakki 4y ago

I have a good night sleep.

jasoneckert 4y ago

I spent some time watching some stuff on YouTube, including Part 1 of a documentary about Oracle and how they changed the database world. I can't wait for the SQL...

ayewo 4y ago
Do you have the link handy?

borissk 4y ago

Didn't know it was down :D

randomdata 4y ago
25% of Canadian internet users would have said the same thing if they could.

jszymborski 4y ago

I waited in line for four hours at a Canadian passport office.

happy-go-lucky 4y ago

It felt like a void that was difficult to replace.

6502nerdface 4y ago

I rode my motorcycle to the beach where I helped a little girl build sand castles and capture mole crabs in a bucket. Then we released the mole crabs and I rode back home to hackernews.

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andsoitis 4y ago

I read a book. Went to the gym.

oblib 4y ago

I went and checked https://brutalist.report/ https://brutalist.report/ to see what the latest HN posts they had, read the headlines and then moved on. A few hours later I went to HN and they were back. I wasn't worried about it, I figured dang and others were working on it and would have things back online. I do depend on HN for taking a break from coding though and it was tough not getting my fix on demand :D

dtmmax33 4y ago

I was at the beach today and didn't realize it was down.

peapicker 4y ago

Finished mastering my latest EP and uploading it for release on Monday. Also did a bit of compiler warning cleanup on multiple UNiXes for next release new code work.

didip 4y ago

I was sick, so I slept a lot and didn't even noticed HN went down.

Terry_Roll 4y ago

Handed out a couple grams of nicotinic acid, explained the flush, taught some people how to surf, explained how wifi radar works, how to hack various devices, how to avoid getting a speeding ticket, explained how a chemical in 1 litre of grapefruit juice is enough to slow up the liver metabolism of some medication which can put you in an embarrassing potentially life threatening situation if one is a male who has taken 50mg of sildenafil and more...

sidcool 4y ago

I got existential crisis and withdrawals. Looks like I am addicted to HN :)

eimrine 4y ago

I have read some beautiful articles and pdf from HN which were in my browser bookmarks.

gigatexal 4y ago

I was hella bored.

glotchimo 4y ago

I missed it, must have been working or something silly like that

manquer 4y ago

Called my ISP and complained that internet was not working as HN didn't load.

shakezula 4y ago

I wrote a little toy library for tracking magic the gathering boardstate changes.

chefkoch 4y ago

Press F5

Agentlien 4y ago

I didn't realise it was down. It depends on for how long it was down. Gardening, cooking and eating dinner, getting the children ready for bed, watching TV.

elasticventures 4y ago

I found a job and got hired.

viper00 4y ago

I hope Hacker News is never down because knowledge is never down.

akpa1 4y ago

I hacked a couple of Ansible playbooks around and made them do things in an arguably better manner than they did before

dwd 4y ago

Slept right through it. Funny thing about being in a completely different time zone.

772eaerttac 4y ago

I found that Twitter still exists :))

ImKevinArcher 4y ago

I was working too much, so glad it's back too. Needed a break asap!

TheSmoke 4y ago

I visited San Francisco in June 2013 and worked at an office for a month. I had a habit of browsing HN and Twitter during the working hours and from the work computer. I was also very productive. Always got things done. Days go by and I observe people working. I realized that many people would spend time on social media only when they were having lunch and were extremely productive the rest of the day. I thought to myself “If I am working then what these people are doing and if they are working then what is it that I am doing?” I seriously questioned myself and made a decision. No more social media on the work computer and during the working hours. Ever since then I am only reading HN and Twitter when I am on my phone when I am on a break. I haven’t even realized HN was down.

NickRandom 4y ago

I had to resort to unabated onanism during the outage. I am now 30 pounds lighter and when I walk it sounds like two dried beans rattling round in an empty coffee can. P.S. This is one of those comments where I debated 'should I or shouldn't I post it' so probably not a good idea to do so but meh, what the heck. Dan & co did a sterling job and it sounds like the CEO of M5 gained some useful insight so every cloud has a silver lining etc

aw9f70gae 4y ago

I made a linting plugin and learned about ASTs

thdespou 4y ago

Didn't realize it was down...

fuzzfactor 4y ago

Slipped under my radar. How long was it? Is there any post-mortem? >Where'd you go? Depends on how long it was out. >What'd you find? Now I find if you spend too much time away from the internet, you'll never keep up with what's happening in the real world. Or something like that.

_benj 4y ago

I “discovered” Destiny 2… and now I have two addictions! :D

Kenneth39 4y ago

I would cry.

timeon 4y ago

Tour de France

galgot 4y ago

I opened Lynx and went there : gopher://hngopher.com:70/1/

tus666 4y ago

I was sleeping.

hansword 4y ago

I went for a long walk to the cemetery.

AdamGibbins 4y ago

Hit F5.

cupofpython 4y ago

(What is this, reddit?) I checked news sources more directly from the websites i am personally familiar with instead of using the hacker news front page as a filter + expanded domain

reachableceo 4y ago

I went to Reddit and lobste.rs . Was horrible! (Not really ).

kasperset 4y ago
My thoughts exactly!

quicksnap 4y ago

While waiting for tests to run, I was directed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

jjgreen 4y ago

Rocked backward-and-forward with my arms crossed.

FredPret 4y ago

I actually worked, amazing what you can get done if there’s nothing else to do

onion2k 4y ago

I did far more work than usual and now my product lead is going to expect this to happen every sprint. They'll be so disappointed.

cosmotic 4y ago
Just explain that it's unsustainable regardless.
Sakos 4y ago
I was so productive I managed to finish the work inside of a day that I've been having trouble with the past two weeks. Maybe HN should have planned blackouts? :D
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muh_gradle 4y ago
Interesting. I fell into a hopeless pit of despair and got far less work done as a result. I need my soma fix.
ghetzel 4y ago
Finish the tickets, but don't close the tickets ;)
- haggy102 4y ago
  This is the way
  - ezekg 4y ago
    I used to feel really bad about this until I learned a lot of other programmers do the same thing. Work hard and fast for a little while when you’re motivated, relax a lot when you’re not.
    - dieselgate 4y ago

jspaetzel 4y ago

Wrote tickets in Jira

wdfx 4y ago
I found myself reconfiguring Jira

raffraffraff 4y ago

Reddit. Fuck Reddit.

devin 4y ago

I worked out and took a long walk.

gffrd 4y ago

I got some work done for once. There's my 2.35 hours of work for the month!

chainwax 4y ago

I got most of the way there to hosting a small site from a pi. Got hung up on port forwarding on Fios. I'll figure it out though.

silisili 4y ago

Checked HN, watched it spin for about 10 seconds before going elsewhere, then trying again 8 seconds later out of habit mostly. Rinse and repeat.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago

Escape from Tarkov

mgh2 4y ago

Blind. There are some trolls like with anything, but sometimes there is good content from tech workers. There might be an overlap of demographics... largely Indians under H1B https://www.teamblind.com/ https://www.teamblind.com/

Apreche 4y ago

I didn't even notice. I only check this site via RSS.

petewailes 4y ago

Got the second to last module finished on the theatre of mind focused VVT I'm building. We're launching in Sept.

RheingoldRiver 4y ago

Watched HugoConf https://hugoconf.io/ https://hugoconf.io/

brycewray 4y ago
Same. Allowed more focus on it.

ericskiff 4y ago

https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/

bsima 4y ago

I cleaned my office and moved furniture while waiting for compiles to finish. Got the keyboard next to my desk now, hopefully this encourages me to practice more often. Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see the day

itsmemattchung 4y ago

Nothing. I was useless

zzixp 4y ago

Work :(

inasio 4y ago

I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years, probably. Still there...

onion2k 4y ago
I had loads of +5 Funny comments there about 20 years ago. Hard to believe, I know.
ssl232 4y ago
I checked in there a few months ago and regretted it. It's like while I'm now ten years older, it stayed the same age (well, those commenting).
- tpmx 4y ago
  Same, but I'm now 20 years older.
  - koonsolo 4y ago
    Almost the same for me. It's for sure 10 years ago, but when I do the calculation, it's 20. :'(
    - tpmx 4y ago
      https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3716/is-mathematics-always-correct https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3716/is-mathe... ;)
deltarholamda 4y ago
I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion. It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.
- john-tells-all 4y ago

rozenmd 4y ago

I released the first version of a status page driven by uptime monitoring an hour before the first outage. Figured I'd point it at Hacker News to get an update when my uptime monitoring detected it was up again. The second outage gave me time to dogfood it a bit: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD

gffrd 4y ago
So … are you saying you're responsible for the outage?
- rozenmd 4y ago
  I mean... if the demo-gods were behaving as usual, the outage would never have happened

jeanlucas 4y ago

HN was down? For how long?

ardit33 4y ago

Checking out Blind .... I love HN but Blind is more entertaining for sure.

layer8 4y ago
In what way? Just curious.
- ardit33 4y ago
  It is like a giant watercooler for most tech companies out there... full of gossip and other silliness. If you don't take it too seriously, it is a fun and entertaining place, also people keep it more real as people don't hold the punches. (due to anonymity). Also it is a good place to know about tech interviewing in general, what to do, leveling, negotiation. It servers as a mini forum/guild for tech folks. It can be very helpful on that aspect.
  - muzani 4y ago
    It feels very fake and theatrical to me, almost like a wrestling ring. That makes it entertaining at times, but anonymity also means no accountability. I'm far more inclined to believe someone on HN who are at least willing to risk their reputation on a claim. On Blind, you can go ahead and claim you make $600k salary working 4 days/week after 18 months of grueling interviews. Write up whatever fan fiction as long as it makes sense.
jstx1 4y ago
Blind is a guilty pleasure, I know how toxic the place is but sometimes I just can't look away.
irrational 4y ago
I’d never heard of blind. I downloaded the app to try it out. Oh, they need my work email for verification? Hell no. I understand the rationale, but they do know that IT can see all my work emails, right?

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_Algernon_ 4y ago

Wore down the F5 button.

joshstrange 4y ago

Opened reddit, got disappointed, opened new tab, typed "n", hit enter, and then my brain caught up with muscle memory and I got more disappointed. I watched a lot of progress bars and actually watched the CLI output for things building.

_fat_santa 4y ago
Open the browser and type out "news.", sigh when you see the prefill for "ycombinator.com" and have to change it to "google.com".

mholt 4y ago

Worked on updating and improving Caddy's documentation. We're releasing v2.5.2 today or tomorrow!

proactivesvcs 4y ago
Caddy is fabulous. Thank you!

toddm 4y ago

Went to the liquor store.

Unbeliever69 4y ago

Solved the Riemann hypothesis

j_kao 4y ago

To be facetious... work.

spacemanmatt 4y ago

It was down?

migueloller 4y ago

I started reading Crafting Interpreters [1]. It's great so far! [1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/

memorable 4y ago
Hope you are having a great journey with it!
CSMastermind 4y ago
Oh super interesting! This goes onto the reading list.
- chocolatemario 4y ago
  the old monotonically growing reading list. I must figure out a way to organize mine better
  - zelphirkalt 4y ago
    Easy! Make another list of things, which are _excellent_ reads.

hans1729 4y ago

I smugly commented "Dang" on one of the status updates on twitter and spent time with my girlfriend. Now HN is up again and I spend time consuming meta-content regarding the outage (such as this thread). Have a great weekend everyone!

TedShiller 4y ago

Reloaded https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus

wffurr 4y ago

Took a nap. Read Your Local Epidemiologist and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.

oneepic 4y ago

Practiced a speedrun for a weekend event my friends and I hold every so often. Nowhere near the world record, but we don't care!

tekknolagi 4y ago

Still didn't do much work :D

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christophilus 4y ago

Curled up in the corner, hugged myself and rocked back and forth, sobbing inconsolably.

Layke1123 4y ago
Comfort is coming.

marginalia_nu 4y ago

A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm beginning to realize just how powerful this is. Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))' and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not great with JQ, so there's probably a better way of doing this, but this unga bunga approach works too) Specifically, today I did some research on a few tags and headers supposedly associated with "Acceptable Ads" (a standard for showing ads through complicit adblockers), and ended up with a fairly reliable fingerprint for a network of domain squatters that have been a nuisance in my search engine database. Turns out they're basically the only ones that use the headers and tags I was looking at, so now I'm onto their IP-ranges as well.

BonoboIO 4y ago
So the Domain squatter pays to let Adblockers show ads on their sites?
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Yeah, appears to be something like that. Very convenient for me.
higerordermap 4y ago
I don't have much context about your technical requirements but can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  It's a tradeoff between ease of writing, and ease of reading for indexing, and freeform analytical usecases like this. JSON caters to all fairly well. It's one file per domain, so looking at specific urls is no prob with this setup.

moomoo11 4y ago

Lol I was trying to reach the site every 20 min when I take my 30s break.

alberth 4y ago

Hit refresh more times than I should admit.

mentos 4y ago

Wondered how HN might best implement mandatory offline periods during the day. I’m thinking something like it’s offline for an hour every other hour so only a total of 12 hours uptime a day.

qwertox 4y ago
I think it should be made an entire 24h unannounced once a month on a random workday.
layer8 4y ago
It should be random so one can’t plan around it.
sva_ 4y ago
Or maybe we should all learn some self-control instead.
- archi42 4y ago
  Don't be silly. I'd write an elaborate explanation why that's statistically likely for tech workers to be easily distracted by shiny things and how HN is triggers this, but I have to sneak out of bed now so I can setup uptime-kuma (which I just learned about). ;-)
mdaniel 4y ago
On the off chance you haven't seen it, that's what "noprocrast" does in your profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html While looking up that link, TIL about what "delay" does, too, so thank you :-)

kamranjon 4y ago

I read half way through this free book by Sven Yrvind called “WITH FOUR SQUARE METERS OF SAIL AND ONE OAR” which is sort of a manifesto about building small boats and living simply. He’s a super interesting guy, I don’t even know how to sail and I was pretty glued to it. Not sure why I decided to latch on and go deep on the subject but you can find it here if you’re interested: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ex_lex_eng.pdf https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ex_lex_eng...

jarrenae 4y ago
I've been on a sailing kick recently, and think you'd like this vlog featuring Sven and one of his boats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bca5_uyH9E4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bca5_uyH9E4 The sheer utility of every component of the craft is awesome.
diablerouge 4y ago
Yrvind is such a legend - he has had me on a micro-cruiser kick for quite a while now. He has a youtube channel that's worth checking out - he's a character that's fun to listen to as well. Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession): You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers. A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and breaking all the rules of traditional boat design. The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood and epoxy. There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design. OK, infodump over.
- password4321 4y ago
  I appreciate the info, HN is my human search engine.
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quickthrower2 4y ago

Didn’t notice it. Was with relatives.

account-5 4y ago

Continually refreshed until HN was back.

travisgriggs 4y ago

Started doing the Jetpack Compose tutorial(s) for like the 3rd time and thought: "Everything changes, but nothing changes. I am paid to stay atop this schizophrenic elephant of an industry." Then took another gulp of ItsGonnaBeBetterThisTime KoolAid.

muzani 4y ago
We've implemented Compose in production for a few months now. It's actually been my favorite new thing. Most of the new stuff increases the time it takes to get work done, but Compose appears to reduce it by half on simple tasks, and a lot more on complex tasks. There's also some stuff on View tech debt which isn't less apparent, but I think Compose is here to stay. The official tutorials are quite bad though. Probably better to try building something, paying for a book, or just reverse engineering something off GitHub.
- travisgriggs 4y ago
  In some ways I like it already as well. Doing things in code instead of XML is nice. My real struggle is knowing what different citizens of the Android lineage are are "current". Views and ViewGroups are kinda out. But ViewModels are still Good. I have no idea about Fragments and Activities and Intents. It's like every class in the system needs one of 3 badges: "Still a Club Member", "Stinky Poo Poo, DONT use this anymore", "Use if you have to, but we're hoping to make this go away some day, so keep your eyes out here."
  - muzani 4y ago
    I hear you. The badges actually exist, but they're not very useful. Material Design is way up in the club member territory, but my gut feeling is they're not very committed to. On the other hand, they have @ExperimentalApi slapped all over things like Compose and Flow but those are probably here to stay. Flutter seems like it's dangling close to the chopping board. I feel sorry for all the people who think that it's going to stay because Google.
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messutied 4y ago

I created this unofficial Hacker News status page so I could subscribe and get notified once HN comes back up :) https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/ https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/

password4321 4y ago
Nice! There's also the official https://twitter.com/hnstatus https://twitter.com/hnstatus

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago

Lol. There was actually a lot of work so it really did work out well for me:P

tr1ll10nb1ll 4y ago

Wonder why Rogers is down. Oh, and it's still not up and I'm still not getting verification codes :)

clintonwoo 4y ago

Read whatever was up on HN before it went down on https://remix.hnclone.win https://remix.hnclone.win ha ha

likortera 4y ago

Hit reload like crazy. I was desperate.

misiti3780 4y ago

worked.

DantesKite 4y ago

Prayed.

27182818284 4y ago

Looked up alternative ways of castling in chess because I'm very bored of the standard kingside and queenside castling so, I was trying to find strategies using the old style of play like before the two-piece-one-move castling of today was formed. Right now it seems a lot of games I play online end up with the same openings. Chess 960 helps with that, but I don't like to play that all the time either.

karlzt 4y ago

I went to the fourth dimension while sleeping.

openthc 4y ago

Took a little break ;) Played some Rocket League

fnordpiglet 4y ago

Wept savagely and uncontrollably

petsormeat 4y ago

Walked outdoors in the sunshine.

jacklyn577 4y ago

I got confused and thought something was wrong with my internet

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luxuryballs 4y ago

Started coding a replacement /s

hericium 4y ago

_WHY_ is it down?

culopatin 4y ago

I flew across the Atlantic so didn’t notice

frompdx 4y ago

I set up a bookshelf and finally unpacked all of my books.

pilom 4y ago

HN was down?

TheMiddleMan 4y ago

https://i.imgur.com/GpmUla5.png https://i.imgur.com/GpmUla5.png

DiabloD3 4y ago

HN was down? Huh.

rcurry 4y ago

I went and cried in a corner.

BeFlatXIII 4y ago

Work.

roxaaaane 4y ago

I did more work lol mostly taking care of the bottom of the list Improvements a few small PRs here and there..

adamius 4y ago

Played with lua as a kernel module.

Syonyk 4y ago

Pulled two solar panels off one of my arrays, because a few of them have hot junction boxes from bad connections. Replaced those with spares and got the array back fully online (one of them has been bypassed for arc fault warnings that, digging into the junction box, look legit). Then I replaced all the fancy, spring loaded, "replace the back of the junction box for new functionality!" interface stuff with some vintage, 1980s style soldering and bypass diodes. Because I don't care about the optimizers on my well-sited array with no shading, and I don't need rapid shutdown for a ground mount array, etc. And then proceeded to short the leads, put them in the sun, and ensure that the junction box guts didn't get hot, while observing just how brutal on panels doing this is - you really highlight the difference between cells thermally, when in "normal running," you don't see any differences in the array. And now I'm writing all this up as a blog post. :)

cahoot_bird 4y ago

Was going through the who is hiring thread then noticed it was down, took a nap than got supper

tmaly 4y ago

I took the kids to the water park. Great day for it.

unzadunza 4y ago

I recorded a song on my guitar. It is so bad it makes me sick to my stomach.

rolph 4y ago
once you have a good development for mechanical aspects you absolutely should record yourself and listen, so you can train your ears for the sound. your own ears will lie to you a lot, and the room/hall acoustics matter. the signal gear for amped instruments matters as well. if you want to play for people you have to train your ears so that you know what good sound, sounds like to most people.
FigurativeVoid 4y ago
Well it’s at least a start! Keep recording. :)
klipt 4y ago
Jonathan Coulton started by writing one thing a week. Most of them were meh but there were some that were good. Turns out the important thing is perseverance.
spaceisballer 4y ago
Kudos to you on doing it. I’ve played guitar for twenty plus years and never had the guts to record myself.
AlphaWeaver 4y ago
The act of creating something deserves to be celebrated, even if it doesn't meet your standards for quality! Good job!

black_puppydog 4y ago

Annoying friends with lengthy discussions about gun politics, tech ethics, and the latest gadgets...

spiffytech 4y ago

I ran some errands, then did watercolor painting with my wife :)

barsonme 4y ago

my job :)

irrational 4y ago

Watched the latest Shut Up and Sit Down board game review video. Now I’m wondering if I should get the Air, Sea, and Land expansion and/or Space Station Phoenix.

anigbrowl 4y ago

Not notice

jmpman 4y ago

Worked. It sucked.

freedude 4y ago

I read a Brian Krebs article I had missed made two phone calls and got some paperwork done. Quite a productive Friday. ;-)

tomcam 4y ago

I took up smoking

hintymad 4y ago

Eh… Duolingo? Or other bite-sized language material. I personally like Beelinguapp. Its readings are small enough yet are quite fun to read for a beginner

Tade0 4y ago

Went for a walk with my toddler. We found bits of broken glass on the playground. There was an attempt to ingest them, but I prevented that from happening.

jazzyjackson 4y ago

assumed my internet was out and read a book for once "masks of the illuminati"