[HN Gopher] Show HN: Outage Bingo
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       Show HN: Outage Bingo
        
       Author : notamy
       Score  : 193 points
       Date   : 2021-11-16 18:27 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (outage.bingo)
 (TXT) w3m dump (outage.bingo)
        
       | remram wrote:
       | It would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can
       | use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or
       | strategically)
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | It's open source! I'm open to PRs ^^
         | https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | Thanks for adding this :D <3
        
       | KennyBlanken wrote:
       | Cute, but
       | 
       | Comcast was 5 days ago
       | 
       | GCP was 4 days ago
       | 
       | Facebook was 13 days ago
       | 
       | Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major
       | cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock trading platform
       | that happens to trade crypto.)
        
         | mmastrac wrote:
         | The card is for all of November '21
        
           | notamy wrote:
           | Yup! Cards are monthly (and created manually so we can
           | adjusted based on previous months of outages/breaches)
        
         | dubcanada wrote:
         | GCP was today actually.
        
           | notamy wrote:
           | There was a GCP outage a few days ago, which is what Outage
           | Bingo has linked. It sadly doesn't currently support multi-
           | links per-card.
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | Robinhood was one that we (me + friends) were a bit on the
         | fence about, since it does -- as you say -- get really close to
         | the edge, but it seemed close-enough.
        
         | LamdbaMamba wrote:
         | Robinhood probably still earns more than half of its
         | transaction based revenue from crypto, with the rest being
         | options and stocks. I think it actually does qualify as a major
         | cryptocurrency service.
         | 
         | https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jum...
        
           | capableweb wrote:
           | That 50% of Robinhoods revenue comes from crypto does not
           | make Robinhood a major service in the cryptocurrency space.
           | Could be that they have way higher margins on cryptocurrency,
           | that cryptocurrency fans spend more or anything else. But
           | compared to other exchanges or trading platforms in
           | cryptocurrency, Robinhood is basically non-existing.
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | Some of these TLDs are insane. This is about as obscure as
       | ".horse"
        
       | leetrout wrote:
       | Reminds me: Dyn is now under Oracle.
        
       | DoctorOW wrote:
       | If AWS goes down, taking Slack out then I get a bingo. There's
       | gotta be an Amazon employee who can help me out. :)
       | 
       | https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | psst, i know a guy. meet me by the bicycle racks at 3pm
        
           | jacktheturtle wrote:
           | lol which ones
        
       | JrProgrammer wrote:
       | https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313
       | 
       | Just need Apple to go down :)
        
       | fotta wrote:
       | Shouldn't the FBI's email vulnerability over the last weekend
       | count for "A government entity"?
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | Yes it should! Thanks for the catch :D
         | 
         |  _Edit: This has been added!_
        
       | bastardoperator wrote:
       | Did anyone get Roblox last month?
        
       | __s wrote:
       | > A major code hosting service (Github, PyPI, NPM, etc.)
       | 
       | Looks like there's two free spaces on these sheets
        
       | capableweb wrote:
       | "A major cryptocurrency service" links to
       | https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/robinhood-trading-app-suff...,
       | not sure if it's on purpose or by mistake? Robinhood is not a
       | major service in the cryptocurrency space.
        
       | samstave wrote:
       | WHERE THE FUCK IS @PATIO11 ON THIS MATTER!!!??
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | I love this!
       | 
       | WEhat would be really awesome would be:
       | 
       | ANTI-PATTERN-OUTAGE-BINGO-DDOS-VOTE :
       | 
       |  _" Who should the botnet go after?"_
       | 
       | And have users bot-vote the target of whatever version of LOIC
       | they can muster...
       | 
       | (And a BLUE version - which is users dedicated to protecting such
       | site)
       | 
       | --
       | 
       | Im smelling a click-game here... Anyone? A N Y O N E ?> ? ?
        
       | samstave wrote:
       | This is going to be Internet Gold right here.
        
         | sdenton4 wrote:
         | Just needs some integration with InTrade....
        
       | mynameismon wrote:
       | Wouldn't Twitch also count for the breach?
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | Twitch was last month! New cards are made for each month.
        
           | mynameismon wrote:
           | I didn't even realise it was in October.
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | You can see previous months by changing the `month` querystring
         | param, see ex. https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 for
         | last month
        
       | jalgos_eminator wrote:
       | I have strategically picked my card and all I need is a major DNS
       | provider and reddit to go down. Hopefully I get a real prize and
       | not just my data being leaked.
       | 
       | https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420
        
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         | skykooler wrote:
         | My first spin has bingo already:
         | https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=81405
        
         | CodesInChaos wrote:
         | https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 is similar. Either
         | reddit+dns or apple by itself would be enough
        
           | [deleted]
        
       | bberenberg wrote:
       | I would love to be able to set this up by submitting some group
       | of statuspages as a data source.
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | If you build it, don't forget to make a ShowHN post!
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | That'd be a cool longer-term goal :D Right now it's all manual
         | to allow for changing the cards month-to-month.
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | I read this as Outrage Bingo. Now I want that. If you build it,
       | we will come. You could auto-generate squares with the Twitter
       | API. Twitter, the Outrage Propagation As A Service platform. Mark
       | the square if its term appears in a headline on the HN front
       | page.
       | 
       | The number of bingos will be inversely correlated with the
       | quality of the HN feed. It could be used for QA.
        
         | monkeybutton wrote:
         | Same. The Bingo tld is clearly under utilized in playful and or
         | sarcastic applications. Now there's a place I to put my
         | corporate townhall bingo cards..
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | Ooh that sounds like a fun idea :D Maybe soon.
        
         | djbusby wrote:
         | Twitter: Platform (for) Outrage Optimisation (and) Propagation
         | or "POOP"
        
       | bgirard wrote:
       | I got a bingo after checking 5 seeds:
       | https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392
        
         | mmastrac wrote:
         | That saved me from clicking another few hundred times, thanks.
        
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         | kaetemi wrote:
         | Bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=46935
        
         | one_off_comment wrote:
         | I've also got bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=86425
        
         | ComputerGuru wrote:
         | Aww, no confetti and BINGO! popup or marquee?
        
           | notamy wrote:
           | Oh that's a great idea! I've written it down ^^
           | https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7
        
             | qwertox wrote:
             | "Written it down"
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | ricardo81 wrote:
       | Centralisation hell on a bingo card.
        
       | danShumway wrote:
       | Have we seriously not already had a major VPN leak? We must have
       | had one by now, right?
       | 
       | I vaguely feel like more of these cards should already be blue?
       | But maybe I'm just quibbling over what "major" means or how long
       | in the past we should go to look.
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | Regardless, fun project, I like the idea a lot. I'll also add my
       | vote alongside other commentors that I'd love to be able to use
       | names as seeds.
       | 
       |  _Edit: hah, looks like a pull request is already merged
       | (https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/pull/9/files)._
        
         | notamy wrote:
         | Cards are per-month; see ex. last month's card here
         | https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316
        
           | danShumway wrote:
           | Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.
        
       | acidburnNSA wrote:
       | I love bingo cards as commentary. I became 'well known' in the
       | nuclear industry for passing out 'Nuclear Renaissance Bingo'
       | cards at a national meeting during a keynote whilst pretending it
       | was official.
       | 
       | Since then I've recently revived my bingo card generator. It
       | defaults to nuclear things but you can actually write your own
       | options and then share the URL with your custom options encoded
       | into the URL. Fun for zoom meetings for sure.
       | 
       | https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html
        
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