[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
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Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
Where'd you go? What'd you find? Glad it's back up now.. :)
Author : quicksnap
Score : 137 points
Date : 2022-07-08 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
| Syonyk wrote:
| Pulled two solar panels off one of my arrays, because a few of
| them have hot junction boxes from bad connections. Replaced those
| with spares and got the array back fully online (one of them has
| been bypassed for arc fault warnings that, digging into the
| junction box, look legit).
|
| Then I replaced all the fancy, spring loaded, "replace the back
| of the junction box for new functionality!" interface stuff with
| some vintage, 1980s style soldering and bypass diodes. Because I
| don't care about the optimizers on my well-sited array with no
| shading, and I don't need rapid shutdown for a ground mount
| array, etc.
|
| And then proceeded to short the leads, put them in the sun, and
| ensure that the junction box guts didn't get hot, while observing
| just how brutal on panels doing this is - you really highlight
| the difference between cells thermally, when in "normal running,"
| you don't see any differences in the array.
|
| And now I'm writing all this up as a blog post. :)
| pclmulqdq wrote:
| I did a lot of work on the company I am bootstrapping.
|
| I also read about the pcg random number generator, and a bit
| about the feuds between its inventor and a competing research
| group that invented the Xorshift random number generator.
| account-5 wrote:
| Continually refreshed until HN was back.
| [deleted]
| _Algernon_ wrote:
| Wore down the F5 button.
| [deleted]
| joshstrange wrote:
| Opened reddit, got disappointed, opened new tab, typed "n", hit
| enter, and then my brain caught up with muscle memory and I got
| more disappointed.
|
| I watched a lot of progress bars and actually watched the CLI
| output for things building.
| frompdx wrote:
| I set up a bookshelf and finally unpacked all of my books.
| mholt wrote:
| Worked on updating and improving Caddy's documentation. We're
| releasing v2.5.2 today or tomorrow!
| pilom wrote:
| HN was down?
| siskiyou wrote:
| Repaired a bicycle. Thankfully Shimano's site was up.
| toddm wrote:
| Went to the liquor store.
| amerine wrote:
| Kinda heads down in PR reviews today. Didn't notice.
| fouric wrote:
| In a fit of irony, read the book _Deep Work_ by Cal Newport.
| jmpman wrote:
| Worked. It sucked.
| cupofpython wrote:
| (What is this, reddit?)
|
| I checked news sources more directly from the websites i am
| personally familiar with instead of using the hacker news front
| page as a filter + expanded domain
| Unbeliever69 wrote:
| Solved the Riemann hypothesis
| oneepic wrote:
| Practiced a speedrun for a weekend event my friends and I hold
| every so often. Nowhere near the world record, but we don't care!
| TheMiddleMan wrote:
| https://i.imgur.com/GpmUla5.png
| cahoot_bird wrote:
| Was going through the who is hiring thread then noticed it was
| down, took a nap than got supper
| j_kao wrote:
| To be facetious... work.
| travisgriggs wrote:
| Started doing the Jetpack Compose tutorial(s) for like the 3rd
| time and thought: "Everything changes, but nothing changes. I am
| paid to stay atop this schizophrenic elephant of an industry."
| Then took another gulp of ItsGonnaBeBetterThisTime KoolAid.
| DiabloD3 wrote:
| HN was down? Huh.
| yababa_y wrote:
| I walked to the gas station, drank an iced coffee, ate a sandwich
| while listening to a book and enjoying the forest. Wrote a README
| for a project I've been working on the past week. Then I noticed
| HN was down :(
| danso wrote:
| Discover OCRmyPDF (embed an OCR layer into a PDF from the command
| line), and then repeatedly check if HN was up so I could submit
| it
|
| https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
| messutied wrote:
| I created this unofficial Hacker News status page so I could
| subscribe and get notified once HN comes back up :)
| https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/
| password4321 wrote:
| Nice! There's also the official https://twitter.com/hnstatus
| migueloller wrote:
| I started reading Crafting Interpreters [1]. It's great so far!
|
| [1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/
| hintymad wrote:
| Eh... Duolingo? Or other bite-sized language material. I
| personally like Beelinguapp. Its readings are small enough yet
| are quite fun to read for a beginner
| A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote:
| Lol. There was actually a lot of work so it really did work out
| well for me:P
| 752963e64 wrote:
| I was fapp'ing hard!
| rcurry wrote:
| I went and cried in a corner.
| tr1ll10nb1ll wrote:
| Wonder why Rogers is down. Oh, and it's still not up and I'm
| still not getting verification codes :)
| quicksnap wrote:
| While waiting for tests to run, I was directed to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
| swat535 wrote:
| Glad to know I wasn't the only one literally experiencing
| withdrawal symptoms as I continuously hit the reload button
| reachableceo wrote:
| I went to Reddit and lobste.rs . Was horrible! (Not really ).
| kasperset wrote:
| My thoughts exactly!
| clintonwoo wrote:
| Read whatever was up on HN before it went down on
| https://remix.hnclone.win ha ha
| freedude wrote:
| I read a Brian Krebs article I had missed made two phone calls
| and got some paperwork done. Quite a productive Friday. ;-)
| throwaway292939 wrote:
| Founded a startup
| Tade0 wrote:
| Went for a walk with my toddler. We found bits of broken glass on
| the playground.
|
| There was an attempt to ingest them, but I prevented that from
| happening.
| hans1729 wrote:
| I smugly commented "Dang" on one of the status updates on twitter
| and spent time with my girlfriend. Now HN is up again and I spend
| time consuming meta-content regarding the outage (such as this
| thread).
|
| Have a great weekend everyone!
| likortera wrote:
| Hit reload like crazy. I was desperate.
| BeFlatXIII wrote:
| Work.
| misiti3780 wrote:
| worked.
| tomcam wrote:
| I took up smoking
| TedShiller wrote:
| Reloaded https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus
| jjgreen wrote:
| Rocked backward-and-forward with my arms crossed.
| spacemanmatt wrote:
| It was down?
| ge96 wrote:
| Kept refreshing the Google news suggestions thing (swipe left on
| my Android phone's homescreen)
| chazeon wrote:
| Install a uptime-kuma[1] at my home server... Then get a Telegram
| notification while hacker news is up again. Actually I self-host
| more service myself and it was use to monitor those services.
|
| https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
| DantesKite wrote:
| Prayed.
| robotbikes wrote:
| I replaced the LCD assembly on a MacBook someone gave me with one
| I bought of eBay. Somehow I succeeded and I didn't even break any
| of the ribbon cables.
| AdamGibbins wrote:
| Hit F5.
| 27182818284 wrote:
| Looked up alternative ways of castling in chess because I'm very
| bored of the standard kingside and queenside castling so, I was
| trying to find strategies using the old style of play like before
| the two-piece-one-move castling of today was formed. Right now it
| seems a lot of games I play online end up with the same openings.
| Chess 960 helps with that, but I don't like to play that all the
| time either.
| smashah wrote:
| Wondered if I had been banned.
| 300bps wrote:
| I prepared a spreadsheet of the approximate amount of karma I
| would've received had HN not been down and will be submitting a
| reimbursement request to dang.
| FredPret wrote:
| I actually worked, amazing what you can get done if there's
| nothing else to do
| wffurr wrote:
| Took a nap. Read Your Local Epidemiologist and A Collection of
| Unmitigated Pedantry.
| black_puppydog wrote:
| Annoying friends with lengthy discussions about gun politics,
| tech ethics, and the latest gadgets...
| karlzt wrote:
| I went to the fourth dimension while sleeping.
| onion2k wrote:
| I did far more work than usual and now my product lead is going
| to expect this to happen every sprint.
|
| They'll be so disappointed.
| [deleted]
| muh_gradle wrote:
| Interesting. I fell into a hopeless pit of despair and got far
| less work done as a result. I need my soma fix.
| ghetzel wrote:
| Finish the tickets, but don't _close_ the tickets ;)
| cosmotic wrote:
| Just explain that it's unsustainable regardless.
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| Oh no. Your burn down chart won't look right. They'll crucify
| you for that and ask you to explain it for sure.
| messe wrote:
| Same. It's probably just a coincidence though. Because if it
| weren't, I'd have an addiction I'd need to confront.
| WhiteOwlEd wrote:
| I wrote ad copy for an Unreal Engine based, data visualization
| course that is hosted online. Details at
| https://www.whiteowleducation.com/courses/data-visualization....
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| assumed my internet was out and read a book for once
|
| "masks of the illuminati"
| hansword wrote:
| I went for a long walk to the cemetery.
| jspaetzel wrote:
| Wrote tickets in Jira
| wdfx wrote:
| I found myself _reconfiguring_ Jira
| openthc wrote:
| Took a little break ;) Played some Rocket League
| spiffytech wrote:
| I ran some errands, then did watercolor painting with my wife :)
| [deleted]
| mysterydip wrote:
| refresh...
|
| ok, now refresh...
|
| It won't be up that quick, you have to be patient!
|
| ...
|
| refresh...
| raffraffraff wrote:
| Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| Didn't notice. Head down for work in the AM, spent the PM
| installing gutter shields. Good day!
| timeon wrote:
| Tour de France
| devin wrote:
| I worked out and took a long walk.
| gffrd wrote:
| I got some work done for once. There's my 2.35 hours of work for
| the month!
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| Wept savagely and uncontrollably
| roxaaaane wrote:
| I did more work lol mostly taking care of the bottom of the list
| Improvements a few small PRs here and there..
| tekknolagi wrote:
| Still didn't do much work :D
| [deleted]
| petsormeat wrote:
| Walked outdoors in the sunshine.
| silisili wrote:
| Checked HN, watched it spin for about 10 seconds before going
| elsewhere, then trying again 8 seconds later out of habit mostly.
| Rinse and repeat.
| christophilus wrote:
| Curled up in the corner, hugged myself and rocked back and forth,
| sobbing inconsolably.
| Layke1123 wrote:
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| Escape from Tarkov
| chainwax wrote:
| I got most of the way there to hosting a small site from a pi.
| Got hung up on port forwarding on Fios. I'll figure it out
| though.
| digitalsankhara wrote:
| Gave me time to take my annual shower and comb my greybeard.
| mgh2 wrote:
| Blind. There are some trolls like with anything, but sometimes
| there is good content from tech workers.
|
| There might be an overlap of demographics... largely Indians
| under H1B
|
| https://www.teamblind.com/
| mikewarot wrote:
| There's a material analogous to permanent magnets for charge...
| called an Electret. They are one of the reasons N-95 masks work.
|
| They also _might_ shield gravity a bit. Now I need to get a 50kv
| DC power supply to make my own in bulk, and find out. I expect it
| to be interesting, but no new physics.
| Apreche wrote:
| I didn't even notice. I only check this site via RSS.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD
| compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm
| beginning to realize just how powerful this is.
|
| Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec
| zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[]
| .headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))'
|
| and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like
| X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not great with JQ, so there's probably a
| better way of doing this, but this unga bunga approach works too)
|
| Specifically, today I did some research on a few tags and headers
| supposedly associated with "Acceptable Ads" (a standard for
| showing ads through complicit adblockers), and ended up with a
| fairly reliable fingerprint for a network of domain squatters
| that have been a nuisance in my search engine database. Turns out
| they're basically the only ones that use the headers and tags I
| was looking at, so now I'm onto their IP-ranges as well.
| higerordermap wrote:
| I don't have much context about your technical requirements but
| can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| It's a tradeoff between ease of writing, and ease of reading
| for indexing, and freeform analytical usecases like this.
| JSON caters to all fairly well.
|
| It's one file per domain, so looking at specific urls is no
| prob with this setup.
| petewailes wrote:
| Got the second to last module finished on the theatre of mind
| focused VVT I'm building.
|
| We're launching in Sept.
| RheingoldRiver wrote:
| Watched HugoConf https://hugoconf.io/
| brycewray wrote:
| Same. Allowed more focus on it.
| barsonme wrote:
| my job :)
| adamius wrote:
| Played with lua as a kernel module.
| moomoo11 wrote:
| Lol I was trying to reach the site every 20 min when I take my
| 30s break.
| bbkane wrote:
| Cleaned up my desk and started backing up my (recently passed)
| brother in law's Surface. It got an expanding battery and we're
| worried it'll break and we'll lose all of his logins and pictures
| and docs.
| alberth wrote:
| Hit refresh more times than I should admit.
| bloomingeek wrote:
| Turned my PC off, then on again.
| luxuryballs wrote:
| Started coding a replacement /s
| ericskiff wrote:
| https://lobste.rs/
| mentos wrote:
| Wondered how HN might best implement mandatory offline periods
| during the day. I'm thinking something like it's offline for an
| hour every other hour so only a total of 12 hours uptime a day.
| qwertox wrote:
| I think it should be made an entire 24h unannounced once a
| month on a random workday.
| layer8 wrote:
| It should be random so one can't plan around it.
| sva_ wrote:
| Or maybe we should all learn some self-control instead.
| mdaniel wrote:
| On the off chance you haven't seen it, that's what "noprocrast"
| does in your profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
|
| While looking up that link, TIL about what "delay" does, too,
| so thank you :-)
| irrational wrote:
| Watched the latest Shut Up and Sit Down board game review video.
| Now I'm wondering if I should get the Air, Sea, and Land
| expansion and/or Space Station Phoenix.
| bsima wrote:
| I cleaned my office and moved furniture while waiting for
| compiles to finish. Got the keyboard next to my desk now,
| hopefully this encourages me to practice more often.
|
| Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see
| the day
| kamranjon wrote:
| I read half way through this free book by Sven Yrvind called
| "WITH FOUR SQUARE METERS OF SAIL AND ONE OAR" which is sort of a
| manifesto about building small boats and living simply. He's a
| super interesting guy, I don't even know how to sail and I was
| pretty glued to it. Not sure why I decided to latch on and go
| deep on the subject but you can find it here if you're
| interested: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-
| content/uploads/2017/11/ex_lex_eng...
| jarrenae wrote:
| I've been on a sailing kick recently, and think you'd like this
| vlog featuring Sven and one of his boats:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bca5_uyH9E4
|
| The sheer utility of every component of the craft is awesome.
| diablerouge wrote:
| Yrvind is such a legend - he has had me on a micro-cruiser kick
| for quite a while now. He has a youtube channel that's worth
| checking out - he's a character that's fun to listen to as
| well.
|
| Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my
| obsession):
|
| You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-
| cruisers.
|
| A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave
| Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats
| sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and
| breaking all the rules of traditional boat design.
|
| The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go
| even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering
| the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood
| and epoxy.
|
| There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style
| catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much
| single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs
| we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design.
|
| OK, infodump over.
| password4321 wrote:
| I appreciate the info, HN is the human search engine.
| galgot wrote:
| I opened Lynx and went there : gopher://hngopher.com:70/1/
| anigbrowl wrote:
| Not notice
| tmaly wrote:
| I took the kids to the water park. Great day for it.
| hericium wrote:
| _WHY_ is it down?
| itsmemattchung wrote:
| Nothing. I was useless
| zzixp wrote:
| Work :(
| unzadunza wrote:
| I recorded a song on my guitar. It is so bad it makes me sick to
| my stomach.
| AlphaWeaver wrote:
| The act of creating something deserves to be celebrated, even
| if it doesn't meet your standards for quality! Good job!
| tus666 wrote:
| I was sleeping.
| inasio wrote:
| I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years,
| probably. Still there...
| ssl232 wrote:
| I checked in there a few months ago and regretted it. It's like
| while I'm now ten years older, it stayed the same age (well,
| those commenting).
| tpmx wrote:
| Same, but I'm now 20 years older.
| koonsolo wrote:
| Almost the same for me. It's for sure 10 years ago, but
| when I do the calculation, it's 20. :'(
| tpmx wrote:
| https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3716/is-
| mathe...
|
| ;)
| deltarholamda wrote:
| I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's
| fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted
| elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion.
| It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.
| john-tells-all wrote:
| Agree. I've been on Slashdot for decades and used to love it.
|
| Now I realize I can't stand it unless I _don 't_ read the
| comments. Sort of an anti-HN :|
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| 10ish years ago I scraped a sample of their posts and you
| could see a notable declining trend in volume that projected
| out to 0 in the 2020s. I'd be expecting them to shut down any
| year now.
| onion2k wrote:
| I had loads of +5 Funny comments there about 20 years ago. Hard
| to believe, I know.
| rozenmd wrote:
| I released the first version of a status page driven by uptime
| monitoring an hour before the first outage.
|
| Figured I'd point it at Hacker News to get an update when my
| uptime monitoring detected it was up again.
|
| The second outage gave me time to dogfood it a bit:
| https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/0LB6mQLmkozD
| gffrd wrote:
| So ... are you saying you're responsible for the outage?
| rozenmd wrote:
| I mean... if the demo-gods were behaving as usual, the outage
| would never have happened
| jacklyn577 wrote:
| I got confused and thought something was wrong with my internet
| jeanlucas wrote:
| HN was down? For how long?
| [deleted]
| ardit33 wrote:
| Checking out Blind ....
|
| I love HN but Blind is more entertaining for sure.
| layer8 wrote:
| In what way? Just curious.
| ardit33 wrote:
| It is like a giant watercooler for most tech companies out
| there... full of gossip and other silliness.
|
| If you don't take it too seriously, it is a fun and
| entertaining place, also people keep it more real as people
| don't hold the punches. (due to anonymity).
|
| Also it is a good place to know about tech interviewing in
| general, what to do, leveling, negotiation. It servers as a
| mini forum/guild for tech folks. It can be very helpful on
| that aspect.
| muzani wrote:
| It feels very fake and theatrical to me, almost like a
| wrestling ring. That makes it entertaining at times, but
| anonymity also means no accountability. I'm far more
| inclined to believe someone on HN who are at least willing
| to risk their reputation on a claim.
|
| On Blind, you can go ahead and claim you make $600k salary
| working 4 days/week after 18 months of grueling interviews.
| Write up whatever fan fiction as long as it makes sense.
| irrational wrote:
| I'd never heard of blind. I downloaded the app to try it out.
| Oh, they need my work email for verification? Hell no. I
| understand the rationale, but they do know that IT can see all
| my work emails, right?
| muzani wrote:
| They just use it to verify where you work. It's so people
| don't just falsely claim to be at Meta or whatever, but it
| doesn't keep people from lying about their workplace anyway.
| Enough people use Blind that HR/IT shouldn't care.
| jstx1 wrote:
| Blind is a guilty pleasure, I know how toxic the place is but
| sometimes I just can't look away.
| [deleted]
| culopatin wrote:
| I flew across the Atlantic so didn't notice
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| Didn't notice it. Was with relatives.
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