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HN search engine now shows Google's 404 error page

hn.algolia.com

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It's returning a certificate for *.a.run.app rather than hn.algolia.com for some reason. I dug around a bit and you can (temporarily?) use this to access it: https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/

Edit: And it's back! Edit 2: And it's gone again!

Apparently *.run.app domains are using something called Google Hosted, and that is how a Google 404 page came up.

I hope this service doesn't die as it's a really good search for HN comments

If you need an alternative, we host one at https://hn.curiosity.ai

I think we may have broke it. I get an "Unavailable" message. Kudos, nonetheless.

Also screenshoted at https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algoli... and https://archive.ph/JLqBo

What a day to forget my wallet at home. I wonder if this is preventing me from adding my card to GPay, because I am getting this exact error.

That's why I always have a couple of notes shoved in a back pocket of my pants; I haven't once forgotten to put my pants on when leaving home (yet)!

They're working on a new deployment and cert stuff probably got left off the list, as many of us (raising hand) can attest it sometimes does. It'll get fixed.

I was testing out something and ran into this issue yesterday as well. I created a cname to point to http://ip.jsontest.com/ so I could validate my DNS was working. For some reason I was getting the google 404 page.

That would be because that site is hosted on a Google service, but depends on the hostname to figure out which customer/backend to use. This is normal for any multi-tenant hosting. Your CNAME is not registered for that application in the hosting service's database and therefore they can't tell what it's for.

Remember that a CNAME isn't a redirect or anything, there's literally no way for the receiving webserver to know the domain that was CNAME'd in these sorts of requests.

Kind of strange how it’s been something like 17 years and HN still doesn’t have useful search built in. But also I guess kinda cool that you can build something that is popular for decades with little up no updates.

Sometimes software is just done.

HN is pretty close to perfect. The only things I'd change are cosmetic (dark mode, better mobile CSS, etc).

I think as long as dupe posts are not desired, and there is no search to find dupes before posting, that it can't be called done.

It is my daily go-to page to check HN. I hope it will be fixed soon.

Seems ok now, at least when browsing HN from Australia.

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