[HN Gopher] How did I get here?
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       How did I get here?
        
       Author : zachlatta
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2025-11-07 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (how-did-i-get-here.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (how-did-i-get-here.net)
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Previous Show HN: from the dev in 2023:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531604
        
       | paulddraper wrote:
       | Doesn't seem to be working?
        
         | ninju wrote:
         | HN Hug of death ?
        
       | arionmiles wrote:
       | I thought this was going to play a Talking Heads song
        
         | fredland wrote:
         | letting the days go by
        
       | Razengan wrote:
       | I thought this was going to be a review of life choices
        
         | einpoklum wrote:
         | The review of life choices happens in our heads when we click
         | this link on the main HN page.
         | 
         | (sigh) I'm just thinking those thoughts right now.
        
       | aidenn0 wrote:
       | And if you haven't ever seen it before, run
       | tracepath -m60 bad.horse
       | 
       | and also                 openssl s_client -connect
       | signed.bad.horse:443 -servername signed.bad.horse
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | also                   ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer
        
         | lenova wrote:
         | Nice! Dr. Horrible would be proud of this geeky tribute:
         | > tracepath -m60 bad.horse       [...]       16:  bad.horse
         | 81.233ms asymm 10       19:  he.rides.across.the.nation
         | 85.365ms asymm 11       20:  he.got.the.application
         | 96.067ms asymm 13       23:  it.needs.evaluation
         | 112.377ms asymm 15       24:  a.heinous.crime
         | 114.826ms asymm 17       25:  a.show.of.force
         | 120.842ms asymm 18       26:  bad.horse
         | 133.089ms asymm 20
        
       | bongodongobob wrote:
       | Doesn't work. Traceroute showed only 1 hop.
        
         | metabagel wrote:
         | Read the green text
        
         | decafbad wrote:
         | Mine too. Maybe it's CGNAT.
        
       | F00Fbug wrote:
       | This is not my beautiful website.
        
       | andrewshadura wrote:
       | Same as it ever was.
        
       | FredPret wrote:
       | > "You may have noticed that the traceroute progressively loads
       | in lines above the bottom line. Web pages can only load forward.
       | Since I didn't want to use any JavaScript, I did the hackiest
       | thing possible: every time I update the traceroute display, I
       | embed a CSS block that hides the previous iteration! Since
       | browsers render CSS as the page is loading, this made it look
       | like the traceroute was being edited over time."
       | 
       | Love this
        
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