Tell HN: HN was down - Hacker News

Posted by uyzstvqs 7 days ago

Tell HN: HN was down

- HN errored on all authenticated requests with 502 Bad Gateway. It did still respond to a limited amount of unauthenticated requests with presumably cached pages, which did not get updated. The last post on /newest claimed "0 minutes ago", but was actually much older (1:32:57 PM GMT) and not the newest post.

- This status page actually identified the outage: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ - Pages by Hund and Statuspal did not show the outage.

- The last post before the outage was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301823 (1:39:59 PM GMT). The last comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301848 (1:41:54 PM GMT).

- There was an average of ~4 seconds per comment just prior to the outage. Based on this, HN likely went down at 1:41:58 PM GMT.

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Kim_Bruning 7 days ago|

In with the rest, yes, and my first thought is always "I have an internet outage" when HN is down. :-P

russellbeattie 7 days ago||

HN being down makes you start wondering about the differences between routine, addiction, compulsion, and habit.

khobragade 7 days ago||

Man if I had a coin every time I email the mods and this thing goes down, I'd strangely have two coins.

ramonga 6 days ago||

when I realised the api still worked I put this together https://hackernewsx.com just to realise it will just work if I cleared my site data.

sangeeth96 7 days ago||

Thought it had something to do with some model updates, like Gemini Flash 3 for a moment.

busymom0 7 days ago||

I run the app called HACK and received user emails that the HN website was down.

maverwa 7 days ago|

Thank you for HACK. I love it!

pedro380085 7 days ago||

Yes, I got an error message, but I cleared my cookies and was able to access.

arm32 7 days ago||

The "site status" apps are all smoke and mirrors, how unreliable.

oidar 7 days ago||

What was the longest that HN has been down? I feel like this is up there.