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hnlive.tk

109 pointslewisjoe34 comments

A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I've seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had one, the memories.

It still is free. You see I'm quiet broke :p

That are a lot of gotchas with free .tk domains though (Google is full of stories).

Do you have any examples? I registered a free .tk domain for dev purposes and it has worked fine for a while just like any domains (and I didn't have to do anything special about it), but for some reasons it suddenly became unreachable for a while from certain computers (my house, office, etc.) but stayed reachable for others (Facebook's servers, for example). It appears to have recently come back in office here. I have no clue why.

IIRC they used to be mass registered for malware repeatedly, some ISPs (comcast / twc?) have int he past dropped resolving the entire tk namespace at times.

Some A/V and endpoint protection solutions also completely block ie/cf/ga/ml/etc that are 90% malware.

The dropped resolving thing must've been what happened with mine. I verified that this is currently still the case at home for me. At office it's fine.

Email me (profile) if you'd like me to buy you one and transfer ownership to you.

Thank you! I think I can manage buying a `.co.in` domain, sometime soon. Now that I see it's useful for quiet a few people, I'm convinced it's worth a buy.

Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!

Yeah, I was thinking "oh man, dotTK, the memories" :)

The scammers here [0] used a .tk domain as well. Might be because there's hardly any identification needed for the registration if I see it correctly.

[0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...

I remember using .tk domain when I wanted to have a personal website but don't have enough money. I built it from scratch by following the tutorial from a book. Testing locally and deploying on free hosting service, like Tripod (Lycos). I don't know free web hosting like Tripod (Lycos) still exists or not because time has been changes since static web page and its service (GitHUub, BitBucket, and GitLab) appear.

Yeah, it's memories.

For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page/hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254

For submissions that do hit the front page, high activity is positively correlated to the number of pageviews the submission gets overall, though. (i.e a front page submission on Saturday will get less page views than a front page submission on Wednesdays)

That post was done awhile ago and I have not looked at the data since, mostly because the algorithm has changed, and the increased manual moderator intervention had made it more difficult to apply heuristics accurately.

> For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page/hit the front page

Right now (and other times /new is discussed) might be a good idea, though, as people remember to check it out.

Well, yeah. But because most people don't really check /new on a regular basis, if you're on /new when a lot of people are on it's more likely somebody will see you.

But to get to front, you need at least 9 other people to see your post, and think it isn't junk. Whether or not this happens is controlled by so many variables that it's essentially random: Whether or not your post is good for HN, whether the specific audience (HN carries a few) that would like your post is on at the time, how much they like it, how many people are looking at /new, how many new posts are coming, and so on.

I've gotten a few post to the front, and from personal experience I can say it's hard to know what will make it.

A blog post from Andy Wingo about concurrency and programming language design? Nope.

A talk from Bryan Cantrill at USENIX about how the conference system is broken, and how we can fix it? Nada.

An anecdote on mobile app development? Nothing.

Javascript framework? Forget it.

A garbage collector, an R5RS Scheme->JS compiler, and R7RS Large Red Edition? Zip, Zero, Zilch.

An excerpt from John Carmack's blog about the design of QuakeWorld, Two different Lisp implementations, and a blog post about how CHICKEN Scheme does garbage collection (it does, Cheney on the MTA by the way, which is a pretty cool hack to get cheap continuations, GC, and tail recursion at the same time)? Suddenly, HN cares.

So yeah, it's pretty random. Unless you post an article about an implementation of Lisp. HN really likes Lisp.

One could observe that the common theme in your list of submissions there is technical content, not politics or valleywagging or entrepreneurship porn.

Well yeah. I submit what I come to HN to read. And I don't come to HN to read that.

The site's under heavy traffic and is struggling for life. It's a low end digital ocean droplet and I guess it isn't powerful enough. I apologize for the inconvenience.

I'll get it back running smoothly when the traffic calms down. I'd suggest bookmarking the site to visit later. Thanks :)

This app is blocked at my work:

Security risk blocked for your protection

Reason: This Websense category is filtered: Elevated Exposure. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.

URL: http://hnlive.tk/

What are you using?

--update:

http://www.imcreator.tk ← This loads so maybe not all .tk are blocked. I'll check with security.

Guessing it's blocking the tld, which is/was known for being totally free but funded by seedy ad networks.

I guess it might be because of the free domain(.tk) and its bad reputation.

Same here, .tk is not even being resolved by the dns server.

I think this would be better if you could look only at the rate of other users upvoting other new, recently submitted stories, and submit based on that, rather than overall activity.