Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/? | Hacker News Reader

Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/?

42 pointsda027 comments

Based on the current content, it seems the domain has become another how-to tech blog using Wordpress. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Has this "passing of the torch" of whytheluckystiff.net been covered before on HN?

View on HN

This should maybe be left as an exercise for the reader, but here's the solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-19

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-20

https://web.archive.org/web/20090820010834/http://news.ycomb...

What people may not remember is that, sometime between https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776473, we got the second HN Erlang avalanche. I doubt anyone remembers who triggered that one. I tried to find a screenshot of the frontpage at peak Erlang but the Wayback machine wasn't crawling HN so often back then. (It didn't get it the first time, either, but https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 is an approximation.)

Later follow-ups:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whytheluckystiff%20points%3E30...

My mind has been blown by the fact you can do ‘/front?day=YYYY-MM-DD’

OP here. It turns out it was explained back in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7357580

For some reason, I got my dates mixed up. At one point, _why did publish something post-2009, then went silent. I thought it was back in 2013, but it was earlier than that (between 2010-2012). Then in 2013 people discussed the new Wordpress site on the domain.

It was a problem with my memory, not with being too lazy to "site:news.ycombinator.com whytheluckystiff". Sorry for the mix-up.

I didn't mean to imply that you were being lazy! more that some things are best left to be dug up but I couldn't resist spelling it out.

http://whymirror.github.io/

But potion is now maintaining by me under perl11. libsyck also needs a minor revival I think. I once stood at his front porch but didn't dare to ring the bell. He's doing fine I guess.

Don't forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

This is around the time I've started my programming career. Many of my buddy went with RoR while I stuck with PHP. I went to a few Ruby meetup with my friends before the web dev boot camps phase started.

If I recall correctly, because this is such a while back, he left and wants to be left alone. Seems like he got issues to resolve and what ever it is it's personal.

As for the website there are dupes out there.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com