[HN Gopher] Server is smoking, trying to figure out why
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Server is smoking, trying to figure out why
Author : diogenesjunior
Score : 110 points
Date : 2021-06-07 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| seryoiupfurds wrote:
| > Something went wrong. Try reloading.
|
| Seems like Twitter isn't doing much better.
| vlmutolo wrote:
| Was the last outage really in 2015
| jpeter wrote:
| I thought Replit started ddosing the site
| ballenf wrote:
| I really thought it was going to be someone complaining about
| their restaurant server having a smoke break. Thought it must
| have been covid related to make the front page. But don't ask me
| how.
| phendrenad2 wrote:
| "Smoking" meaning running high CPU, presumably, not literally
| smoldering
| bombcar wrote:
| I had an older Dell give up the magic smoke recently and
| literally - https://i.imgur.com/WHYODQS.jpeg
|
| Amusingly enough I smelled it weeks ago and it finally shut off a
| few days ago.
| oxfordmale wrote:
| Did you try nicotine patches?
| loves_mangoes wrote:
| ...nicotine? =)
| el_benhameen wrote:
| If it's any consolation, I thought my wireless provider had
| booted me before I realized HN could be having issues. It's
| generally so fast and reliable that I use it as my "is my
| internet broken?" sanity check page.
| lapp0 wrote:
| Ahahah, similar situation here. I thought maybe our IT
| department had noticed my activity here and decided to throttle
| my connection (which would still be an odd solution instead of
| just outright blocking it), but still it took me a few minutes
| to suspect that maybe the problem was with HN itself.
| whoisburbansky wrote:
| Also assumed this, was only convinced otherwise when I ran
| into the same issue on my personal mobile phone, on a data
| network separate from my work network.
| masswerk wrote:
| Same here. :-)
| bilalq wrote:
| I interpreted this much more literally. When the updated tweet
| about a code revert fixing it came out, it took me a second to
| figure out what was meant.
| AceJohnny2 wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
| nomoreplease wrote:
| Update provided
|
| > Welp, figured out why - because I am idiot. Routine code change
| exploded performance. Only took me 2 hours to think of reverting
| it. Sorry!
|
| https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus/status/14020112741043609...
| bryan_w wrote:
| If they are reading this and need an SRE to help out let me
| know. We are really good at reverting the shit out of an
| release when it breaks prod.
| MontyCarloHall wrote:
| Besides applying security patches, what exactly has needed to
| be changed in the HN codebase over the last 14 years?
| Featurewise, it's been essentially static for its whole
| existence (which is a large part of its appeal to many,
| including myself).
| xeromal wrote:
| If the number of users has grown over the last 14 years, I'm
| sure some of the code areas have needed to be tuned over 14
| years as well.
| AnotherGoodName wrote:
| When you hit scale every edge case becomes a reality.
| jolmg wrote:
| I think I've noticed changes a few times. For example,
|
| - the relative timestamps would go up to days, so you'd see
| e.g. "3121 days ago", and now they're replaced with dates at
| some point.
|
| - we're now able to escape * in comments
|
| - code blocks no longer scroll horizontally and wrap instead
| (my favorite change because many code blocks were actually
| bullet paragraphs)
|
| - the "past" link in the navbar was added
|
| - the subthread collapse link [-] used to use a - (ASCII
| 0x2d) and now it uses - (Unicode U+2013). This is my least
| favorite change because I used to use that for keyboard
| navigation. It was pretty convenient to Ctrl+F [- <Enter>...
| to navigate between comments then <Esc> <Enter> to collapse a
| thread and Ctrl+F <Enter>... to keep navigating.
|
| These are pretty recent changes.
| viraptor wrote:
| There's also the "second chance" list (few months ago?)
| jensenbox wrote:
| Nicotine is a hell of a drug.
| Hublium wrote:
| > It's a difficult habit to quit
|
| LOL
| raverbashing wrote:
| If you think about it, it's impressive how such a high traffic
| site works out using a niche language which what I assume is not
| such a big ecosystem.
|
| (On the other hand there's moderate complexity but low page sizes
| and nothing like modern websites with hundreds of cookies, heavy
| js, etc)
| smegcicle wrote:
| something about deep comment thread folding?
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| Yesterday I saw a strange artifact in a comment. Instead of the
| usual "[-]", I saw "[2 more]". Did not seem right.
| extra88 wrote:
| That's what it says after you use the [-] to collapse a
| comment and it has a single reply. It also counts replies to
| replies (and so on).
| jolmg wrote:
| Yes, but could it be that it used to show [+] before? or am
| I misremembering?
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