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404. PAGE Not FOUND
- xmjee 12y agoHow very nice that the top item of HackerNews is a 404 page.
- desuvader 12y agoNo fun allowed >;(
- worldsayshi 12y agoRather no pointless content allowed. I'd say that the level of fun shouldn't decide wether it should be on hacker news at all. Unless it's the "meaningful" kind of fun. If it's the meaningless kind of fun together with meaningful content, then it should be judged by the meaningfulness. These are the rules that I just made up. Let it be so.
- pain 12y agoA world where the point is to have war, I mean, fun.
- ptaipale 12y agoYou excepted a 417 page?
- pgl 12y ago417 Exception failed
- killwhitey 12y agoAlso see * http://www.bloomberg.com/404 http://www.bloomberg.com/404 * http://www.bloomberg.com/500 http://www.bloomberg.com/500 * http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404 http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404 * http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500 http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500
- kodis 12y agoFunny stuff. What I find surprising is that these error pages are on the web site of Bloomberg news, a fairly serious and straight laced operation.
- dfcowell 12y agoDon't worry, it shows just as much respect for good taste as the rest of their recent redesign.
- im2w1l 12y agoInterestingly, it seems the 404 varies with the url: http://www.bloomberg.com/a http://www.bloomberg.com/a http://www.bloomberg.com/news/a/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/a/ http://www.bloomberg.com/v http://www.bloomberg.com/v
- johnbellone 12y agoThe first and last of those are likely Apache returning errors. Its definitely not expected behavior.
- userbinator 12y agoMy guess is that it's a web developer who really wanted to do something amusing and was only allowed to do it on the error pages.
- apaprocki 12y agoIt's @joshuatopolsky http://bit.ly/1vfVRV3 http://bit.ly/1vfVRV3
- sidcool 12y agoI expected to find some cracks on Larry Page of Google. Having said that, I feel GitHub's 404 is one of the best.
- tvvocold 12y agohttp://www.google.com/404 http://www.google.com/404
- _random_ 12y agoI thought it was an old boring Java/C++ place, but it seems that they can have some fun :).
- gecko 12y agoC++, sure, but their other main language is actually FORTRAN...
- apaprocki 12y agoYep, we have an entire hardware engineering team that maintains our fleet of time machines that we use to travel back to 1987 to recruit new FORTRAN programmers. Actually, our second language is (server-side) JS.
- _random_ 12y ago"(server-side) JS" Why would you pick an unmaintainable language for the server side?
- apaprocki 12y agoCare to elaborate why you think it is unmaintainable? It has worked out well for us. We chose between Lua and JS and ultimately JS won because it was easier to find people who knew it and could be productive faster without training / time to learn Lua.
- gecko 12y agoI have a lot of friends who work at Bloomberg on Fortran code. I believe you that your #2 is JS, but either I have the weirdest luck of finding people who work at Bloomberg, or Fortran has to be pretty high up there.
- sebko 12y agoThis has to be Joshua Topolsky's idea!
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- toddsiegel 12y agoMaybe I am no fun, but I find this error page disorienting and a little disturbing. Errors pages mean you've probably messed up somehow and are associated with user frustration. This page, and the other Bloomberg error pages posted in the comments, do not help to mitigate that. Github does a nice job of walking the line of cutesy, but useful error pages. But then again, who doesn't love Octocat? https://github.com/404 https://github.com/404 https://github.com/500 https://github.com/500 Edited for clarity
- chris_wot 12y agoIf I tilt my iPad the sign on that 500 page moves...
- peterjmag 12y agoCool! Looks like it'll do that in any browser + device combo that supports the device orientation API[1], including Safari on iOS and Chrome on most Mac laptops. Here's little bit more information from a previous comment of mine, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547345 [1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/
- azurelogic 12y agoMouse movement over the graphic does it on desktop too, fyi
- chrismcb 12y agoThey are supposed to be humorous. How is github's better than bloombergs?
- jameson12 12y agoIs this 4chan?
- chris_wot 12y agoSometimes the difference between business and 4chan is a hairs-breadth.
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- apaprocki 12y agoI wasn't expecting to find this on the front page considering they've been floating around Twitter/etc for over a week. But I'll certainly make use of the opportunity to say the new site is entirely Node based and the team is interested in hiring more good Node devs in NYC. Contact me if interested, email in profile!
- hifier 12y agoThis is the framework the site is running on: https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket
- wiresurfer 12y agoHey @apaprocki, The archive pages for bloomberg (at businessweek.com) seem to have dead links and redirecting to businessweek.com instead of the content article. Is that intentional? or maybe just in the process of being fixed.
- rrubmo 12y agoWell, take a look at this one: https://quotivator.net/wp-admin https://quotivator.net/wp-admin
- z-e-r-o 12y agoProbably that's the first #1 item on HN which always stays black/unread. Nice hack.
- cessor 12y agowild status 404 appeared: http://www.cessor.de/404 http://www.cessor.de/404
- slipstream- 12y agoNice 404 page. Perhaps you'd be interested in Glitch City Labs forums? (a topic from there got on HN frontpage before): http://forums.glitchcity.info http://forums.glitchcity.info
- njsubedi 12y agoHere's mine ;) http://njs.com.np/nosuchpage http://njs.com.np/nosuchpage
- graeme 12y agoSince we're talking about 404s, are there best practices for orienting users? I have a site with 1-2 major resources. Does it make sense to say something like: ------ Maybe you were looking for: Resource 1 Resource 2
- dzianisbyhankou 12y agoNot bad, quite sarcastic in fact.
- azurelogic 12y agoComedy gold. It's good to see that serious business has a sense of humor. I still love the Lemmings 404 game here: http://www.romainbrasier.fr/404.php http://www.romainbrasier.fr/404.php
- Aaronik 12y agoWhy?
- udorash 12y agoCredit goes to Stephanie Davidson http://paralleluniver.se/ http://paralleluniver.se/