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I keep seeing these comments, but in my experience hacker news has minor outages several times per year. That’s not counting massive slowdowns from big stories.

`ping 1.1` is so much faster check these days...

Thanks, I never knew this resolves. I guess similar to IPv6 :: ?

HN is a modern scalable multi-AZ, multi-region, multi-cloud Kubernetes edge worker Docker serverless lambda IoT paradigm SPA web 2.0 blockchain AI architecture (OCI) and certainly doesn't get those kind of reliability numbers from being a carefully watched server under dang's desk.

https://twitter.com/danieldibswe/status/1169485819993841664

Kubernetes. We've come so far since the 90's.

Poe's law strikes again.

HN, StackOverflow, Hey.com/Basecamp, Lichess and probably many others that I'm not remembering or aren't famous run mostly or exclusively on real iron.

We don't need buzzword bingo to build reliable, internet-scalable systems, especially when a hiccup occurs so rarely that it's news when it does happen.