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I don't understand why this outage and the Azure outage earlier don't make it to the front page. I'm getting more up to date technical details from the regular

by jkells 2y ago

I don't understand why this outage and the Azure outage earlier don't make it to the front page. I'm getting more up to date technical details from the regular media. This outage looks to be huge.

wfme 2y ago
Agreed, I assume people are flagging this post for some reason?
- speedgoose 2y ago
  It’s most likely the flame war filtering algorithm of HN. Posts that create a lot of discussion quickly are down ranked until an admin fix the rank manually, or not.
blinkersareon 2y ago
The impact is more than huge. Our whole workforce is impacted as the world's largest tech service provider.
- Scoundreller 2y ago
  Y2K came 24+ years late!
  - DaoVeles 2y ago
    And 12 years before the Unix epoch!
Scoundreller 2y ago
Most HNers are on the clock while browsing (for work purposes of course) and forcibly afk at the moment.
- d1sxeyes 2y ago
  I'd guess also a significant proportion of us are involved in our company's response to the incident.
  - k8sToGo 2y ago
    Or we just woke up because we are on vacation
    - mckn1ght 2y ago
      I’m on vacation right now, but I do compile a lot of code when at work
occamsrazorwit 2y ago
This is literally a black swan event that'll be memorialized in textbooks, and that's not even considering the actual fallout that will follow.
- DaoVeles 2y ago
  That is not an understatement. This is literally the largest failing of internet infrastructure to date. Alas, using the internet has given us a lot of efficiency. The trade off is resilience. The entire global system is more brittle than ever but it what gave it such speed.
  - gwervc 2y ago
    Expectations: Russia, China or North Korea will take the Western tech infrastructure down. Reality: the infrastructure took down itself.
  - mrhhaacckk 2y ago
    It's not a failing of Internet infrastructure. It's one vendor pushing out a bad update, and thousands of companies with no supply chain diversity.
    - DaoVeles 2y ago
      I responded to another comment with this and you are right, that is a fair clarification. The base infrastructure worked perfectly fine. The stuff on top of it, not so great.
  - occamsrazorwit 2y ago
    In a way, this might end up being a blessing in disguise. It's an emergency drill for something potentially catastrophic (e.g. massive cyberattack, solar flare), and it's a large enough wake-up call that society can't just ignore it.
    - DaoVeles 2y ago
usr1106 2y ago
HN has some flame war protection I remember having read, downrating some discussions where it assumes nothing useful is being discussed. Maybe a false positive? (100% speculation. That's the problem using closed source software)
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by jkells 2y ago

I don't understand why this outage and the Azure outage earlier don't make it to the front page. I'm getting more up to date technical details from the regular media. This outage looks to be huge.

wfme 2y ago

Agreed, I assume people are flagging this post for some reason?

speedgoose 2y ago
It’s most likely the flame war filtering algorithm of HN. Posts that create a lot of discussion quickly are down ranked until an admin fix the rank manually, or not.

blinkersareon 2y ago

The impact is more than huge. Our whole workforce is impacted as the world's largest tech service provider.

Scoundreller 2y ago
Y2K came 24+ years late!
- DaoVeles 2y ago
  And 12 years before the Unix epoch!

Scoundreller 2y ago

Most HNers are on the clock while browsing (for work purposes of course) and forcibly afk at the moment.

d1sxeyes 2y ago
I'd guess also a significant proportion of us are involved in our company's response to the incident.
- k8sToGo 2y ago
  Or we just woke up because we are on vacation
  - mckn1ght 2y ago
    I’m on vacation right now, but I do compile a lot of code when at work

occamsrazorwit 2y ago

This is literally a black swan event that'll be memorialized in textbooks, and that's not even considering the actual fallout that will follow.

DaoVeles 2y ago
That is not an understatement. This is literally the largest failing of internet infrastructure to date. Alas, using the internet has given us a lot of efficiency. The trade off is resilience. The entire global system is more brittle than ever but it what gave it such speed.
- gwervc 2y ago
  Expectations: Russia, China or North Korea will take the Western tech infrastructure down. Reality: the infrastructure took down itself.
- mrhhaacckk 2y ago
  It's not a failing of Internet infrastructure. It's one vendor pushing out a bad update, and thousands of companies with no supply chain diversity.
  - DaoVeles 2y ago
    I responded to another comment with this and you are right, that is a fair clarification. The base infrastructure worked perfectly fine. The stuff on top of it, not so great.
- occamsrazorwit 2y ago
  In a way, this might end up being a blessing in disguise. It's an emergency drill for something potentially catastrophic (e.g. massive cyberattack, solar flare), and it's a large enough wake-up call that society can't just ignore it.
  - DaoVeles 2y ago

usr1106 2y ago

HN has some flame war protection I remember having read, downrating some discussions where it assumes nothing useful is being discussed. Maybe a false positive? (100% speculation. That's the problem using closed source software)

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