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/. Effect?

by el_don_almighty 3y ago

/. Effect?

jeegsy 3y ago
Hug of Death
gorjusborg 3y ago
wow, that's a throwback. and yes :)
- SushiHippie 3y ago
  Can anyone explain? ;
  - wenderen 3y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
  - eimrine 3y ago
    The site is down because of us. It may be called HN effect but /. was the first who might do that with someone's website.
    - NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
      In the early 90s I worked for a place whose phone number was apt to be published in a news story about the Internet. So people who wondered what it was, and how to get on it, would call that number and reach us. We had 2-3 part-time employees answering phones, voicemail and email. As you can imagine, we were effectively DDOS'd and we knew it, every time a national news story hit the presses. Our #1 response to individual callers was to send them a list of dial-up ISPs. This list could be had on anonymous FTP, but since our callers were not yet online, we printed out the list, on demand, and popped it in the outgoing postal mail, each and every time. That printer was the most unreliable device in the office. Meanwhile, in the same office, we ran an ISP which offered dialup service to a few thousand users. The authentication server needed to read /etc/passwd sequentially, each time a modem answered. The usernames were often found at the bottom of the file. So at peak hours, our authentication server began timing out, backlogged with the requests and the ever-growing user roster. So I took the server code and introduced a RAM cache. It read /etc/passwd and held it in memory until the file was modified on disk. We swapped in the new code and it immediately smoothed everything out again. The operators all breathed a sigh of relief.
    - observationist 3y ago
      Slashdot gets a not-insignificant portion of its content directly from top HN posts. That's what led me here to begin with - almost all of the reddit, slashdot, and other aggregator content I liked was being sourced here (with Phys.org being my second favorite source.)
    - gorjusborg 3y ago
      Not that it matters too much, but the 'Slashdot Effect' existed before HN was online. Slashdot was founded in 1997, 'Slashdot Effect' (according to wikipedia) was coined in 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#:~:text=This%20was%20known%20as%20the,traffic%20to%20sites%20of%20interest%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#:~:text=This%20was%20....) Hackernews was founded 2007.
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/. Effect?

jeegsy 3y ago

Hug of Death

gorjusborg 3y ago

wow, that's a throwback. and yes :)

SushiHippie 3y ago
Can anyone explain? ;
- wenderen 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
- eimrine 3y ago
  The site is down because of us. It may be called HN effect but /. was the first who might do that with someone's website.
  - NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
    In the early 90s I worked for a place whose phone number was apt to be published in a news story about the Internet. So people who wondered what it was, and how to get on it, would call that number and reach us. We had 2-3 part-time employees answering phones, voicemail and email. As you can imagine, we were effectively DDOS'd and we knew it, every time a national news story hit the presses. Our #1 response to individual callers was to send them a list of dial-up ISPs. This list could be had on anonymous FTP, but since our callers were not yet online, we printed out the list, on demand, and popped it in the outgoing postal mail, each and every time. That printer was the most unreliable device in the office. Meanwhile, in the same office, we ran an ISP which offered dialup service to a few thousand users. The authentication server needed to read /etc/passwd sequentially, each time a modem answered. The usernames were often found at the bottom of the file. So at peak hours, our authentication server began timing out, backlogged with the requests and the ever-growing user roster. So I took the server code and introduced a RAM cache. It read /etc/passwd and held it in memory until the file was modified on disk. We swapped in the new code and it immediately smoothed everything out again. The operators all breathed a sigh of relief.
  - observationist 3y ago
    Slashdot gets a not-insignificant portion of its content directly from top HN posts. That's what led me here to begin with - almost all of the reddit, slashdot, and other aggregator content I liked was being sourced here (with Phys.org being my second favorite source.)
  - gorjusborg 3y ago
    Not that it matters too much, but the 'Slashdot Effect' existed before HN was online. Slashdot was founded in 1997, 'Slashdot Effect' (according to wikipedia) was coined in 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#:~:text=This%20was%20known%20as%20the,traffic%20to%20sites%20of%20interest%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#:~:text=This%20was%20....) Hackernews was founded 2007.

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