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Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?

Yes. Sorry. Working on it. One of these years we'll get better.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002228

thanks for all your hard work keeping HN alive and well!

Funny link, especially if you notice what the title is!

I'm curious though: what sort of synchronization does HN use?

It seems like HN could benefit from RCU (read copy update) because it can be super fast and can have great throughput. Its biggest cost is sometimes reading outdated data, which doesn't seem that big in the context of HN.

As I recall, HN is single threaded, so there's no synchronization.

Sorry. Do you have something to apologize for?

being canadian

dang > "...es. Sorry. Working on it ..."

Guess Kiro in original thread finally got a reply / test case.

Some very busy front page discussions. That tends to slow things down until dang steps in and lowers the number of comments per page. Log out (or use private mode) if you just want to read it and it'll hit the cache and be much faster.

All true.

For me HN is the fastest website I know. When I want to test my Internet connection I open HN because if the connection available but it is really bad (there are so in Ukraine nowadays) then HN is that kind of website which has some chances to be loaded.

Its how a website should be in my opinion. The only real complaint you could have with Hacker News is that maybe the font is too small but you can just fix that by using the zoom function on your browser.

Yes. I just got this when trying to submit a comment.

Hacker News We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!

The API had a sub-minute outage a few hours ago, otherwise nothing that shows up on uptime monitoring: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/

Only seems to be slow when I'm logged in...

IIRC there’s a cache for logged out users; you’re not hitting the backend app.

Seems all good now but was slow earlier yes..

Yeah, slow over the last hour or so. I thought it was a problem on my end, but it seems not.

I wandered off to check my internet/DNS. It is indeed very slow as of now.

Yes, it's been taking 10-11 seconds each request for me.

Got faster a few minutes after I showed up. You’re welcome?

Confirm!

Yes.

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