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thank god hn is hosted on a single bare metal server, free of all this bloat.

• cddotdotslash 1y ago
  I can recall plenty of times HN has been down.
  • rldjbpin 1y ago
    it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2) as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this? [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
    • detaro 1y ago
      the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.