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Googling Bend, Oregon's ZIP Code 97702 results in an internal server error

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I hope someday to have created an app where the mere existence of a reproducible 500 lands you on the front page of hacker news. That’s an app that’s demonstrably reliable and useful.

Less clickbaity title: Googling Bend, Oregon's ZIP Code 97702 results in an internal server error.

Not especially baity, I thought.

Also, I can make the search work via archive.is, though this doesn't count as a good workaround!

Ah, the author of the piece may have agreed with you and has updated the title of his piece, so I have done here also, to match...

This vaguely reminds me of the old bug in 8-bit Microsoft BASICs when you input 35072121 as a line number (the real bug is when the line number is six digits or longer, and the first five digits are in the range 35072-35327, of $8900-$89FF).

Looks like it has since been fixed.

Edit: ...or, at least, it works for me logged in and logged out. Weird.

Still failing for me:

Server Error We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue.

Please try again later.

It works for me but I'm using google.ca if that makes a difference.

Edit: It worked about ten times in a row but now I have the error: "Server Error We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue.

Please try again later."

Edit2: I just realized that using the link in the article works but typing the zipcode in the search box or clicking the magnifying glass next to it in the result pages will not work.

Still yielding an error for me. I'd actually love to see a post-mortem/blog post on why this happened. I like quirky little bugs.

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