Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow today (2021-10-04)?

Is HN slow today, or is it just me I loging in from Canada

49 points | by systems 957 days ago

22 comments

  • cosmotic 957 days ago
    Seems the facebook outage is causing secondary outages https://downdetector.com/

    Likely DDoS to DNS servers looking for the missing facebook domains.

  • JohnFen 957 days ago
    It's painfully slow for me on the west coast of the US
  • graposaymaname 957 days ago
    I believe its mostly due to users flocking in to check why Facebook owned sites are down.

    See below entry for more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748203

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    • ASalazarMX 957 days ago
      HN hugged itself too hard.
  • azhenley 957 days ago
    Yes. Clicking "new" or submitting a story is giving me an error too.
  • detaro 957 days ago
    yes, very likely because of the Facebook outage and more people coming here to check.
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    • byoung2 957 days ago
      I was having trouble with Facebook and came here and saw this post and your comment!
  • NabiDev 957 days ago
    https://hn.hund.io - Status Page
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    • PaywallBuster 957 days ago
      It's either not accurate or it's not granular/up to date enough (only recording once per hour)
  • shkkmo 957 days ago
    It's not just slow, I gotten a large number of error pages in the last hour or so. Prior to that it was working fine.

    Edit: The error page says "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" and I get it once out of every 3 or 4 requests.

  • vadfa 957 days ago
    Sorry guys. I'll log out now.
  • rock_artist 957 days ago
    For us in GMT it was fine through the day. Guess the latest events of Facebook resulted additional stress on routes/servers related to HN
  • woodruffw 957 days ago
    It's very slow on the US East Coast. Most requests time out at least once and then succeed after a retry.
  • etimberg 957 days ago
    Most of the internet seems slow today
  • randycupertino 957 days ago
    Facebook products are down, hackernews is slow and reddit is slow! Mondays, amiright?
  • daggersandscars 957 days ago
    Thanks to Detaro for pointing out that login status changes performance!

    Leaving the comment below, but that's the answer.

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    If I access HN from a web browser that blocks all known ad-related sites (including FB), HN is as fast as normal.

    If I access HN through my "regular" browser, it's very slow. This looks like HN timing out trying to hit FB more than load making it slow.

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    • kgwxd 957 days ago
      It's slow for me from FireFox with uBO. When has the HN site ever hit an FB url? I don't see any references to any FB related urls in source, uBO, or dev tools.
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      • daggersandscars 957 days ago
        Firefox + uBlock Origin on MacOS: fast, zero error pages. Safari, no adblocker: slow, error pages.

        Looking at uBO, it's not reporting blocking anything on the page. Yet the performance difference is real. Weird.

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        • detaro 957 days ago
          are you logged in in both? if not, you are getting cached pages which can be served faster.
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          • daggersandscars 957 days ago
            Thanks! I did not know HN serves "fresh" pages when logged in.
  • cedivad 957 days ago
    I want to see what a truly organic traffic jump looks like in a graph, please, admins?
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    • ASalazarMX 957 days ago
      Not an admin, but it probably looks like this:

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  • p4bl0 957 days ago
    It is slow from France too.
  • cwkoss 957 days ago
    We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!
  • actually_a_dog 957 days ago
    I wonder if the fact that I can't access HN from my wifi networks' IP address is related. If I use a VPN or a different wifi network, all is good. But, on my home network, it just times out. :/
  • OBFUSCATED 957 days ago
    Very slow from the UK
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  • 0wis 957 days ago
    Yes, had trouble login, it took 3 attempts.
  • libraryatnight 957 days ago
    Very slow from the southwest US.
  • parafactual 957 days ago
    Yes.
  • stewx 957 days ago
    Yes