alt Hacker NewsTell 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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It was down if you tried to access it while authenticated (i.e. you have a cookie). It was loading fine for unauthenticated sessions (e.g. incognito).
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I run the app called HACK and received user emails that the HN website was down.
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I wake up, and look at HackerNews lol. This morning sucked hahaha
I was convinced that I got banned lol.
Yes, I had to touch grass this morning.
Yeah & chatgpt was trying to gaslight me - claiming it was my fault. Happy to put that bum in its place...
I'm with Hund. Our hn.hund.io page did not catch this because it was requesting the cached, unauthenticated page. It now monitors authentication as well.
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HN being down makes you start wondering about the differences between routine, addiction, compulsion, and habit.