Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow today?

detaro | karma 40664 | avg karma 1.79 · 2021-10-04 12:08:19

yes, very likely because of the Facebook outage and more people coming here to check.

byoung2 | karma 4894 | avg karma 1.59 · 2021-10-04 12:17:42

I was having trouble with Facebook and came here and saw this post and your comment!

OBFUSCATED | karma 16 | avg karma 0.84 · 2021-10-04 12:08:41

Very slow from the UK

throwawayint4 | karma 3 | avg karma 1.0 · 2021-10-04 12:20:46

Seconded

azhenley | karma 20145 | avg karma 7.2 · 2021-10-04 12:17:29

Yes. Clicking "new" or submitting a story is giving me an error too.

etimberg | karma 2281 | avg karma 5.62 · 2021-10-04 12:19:16

Most of the internet seems slow today

vadfa | karma 468 | avg karma 1.68 · 2021-10-04 12:19:31

Sorry guys. I'll log out now.

stewx | karma 1175 | avg karma 5.27 · 2021-10-04 12:20:29

0wis | karma 298 | avg karma 2.87 · 2021-10-04 12:21:17

Yes, had trouble login, it took 3 attempts.

shkkmo | karma 5250 | avg karma 1.16 · 2021-10-04 12:22:46

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.

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cedivad | karma 150 | avg karma 1.38 · 2021-10-04 12:23:56

I want to see what a truly organic traffic jump looks like in a graph, please, admins?

ASalazarMX | karma 5809 | avg karma 1.97 · 2021-10-04 12:44:54

Not an admin, but it probably looks like this:

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cedivad | karma 150 | avg karma 1.38 · 2021-10-04 15:03:48

libraryatnight | karma 3515 | avg karma 3.2 · 2021-10-04 12:25:20

Very slow from the southwest US.

parafactual | karma 148 | avg karma 2.51 · 2021-10-04 12:26:12

p4bl0 | karma 17781 | avg karma 7.56 · 2021-10-04 12:26:55

It is slow from France too.

graposaymaname | karma 891 | avg karma 15.1 · 2021-10-04 12:27:29

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 | karma 5809 | avg karma 1.97 · 2021-10-04 12:38:40

HN hugged itself too hard.

rock_artist | karma 1976 | avg karma 6.98 · 2021-10-04 12:27:51

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

daggersandscars | karma 478 | avg karma 4.05 · 2021-10-04 12:29:07

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 | karma 9256 | avg karma 4.87 · 2021-10-04 12:35:22

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.

daggersandscars | karma 478 | avg karma 4.05 · 2021-10-04 12:44:41

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 | karma 40664 | avg karma 1.79 · 2021-10-04 12:55:29

are you logged in in both? if not, you are getting cached pages which can be served faster.

daggersandscars | karma 478 | avg karma 4.05 · 2021-10-04 13:15:23

Thanks! I did not know HN serves "fresh" pages when logged in.

randycupertino | karma 5409 | avg karma 4.05 · 2021-10-04 12:29:34

Facebook products are down, hackernews is slow and reddit is slow! Mondays, amiright?

NabiDev | karma 495 | avg karma 8.84 · 2021-10-04 12:31:26

https://hn.hund.io - Status Page

PaywallBuster | karma 1059 | avg karma 2.27 · 2021-10-04 12:41:48

It's either not accurate or it's not granular/up to date enough (only recording once per hour)

woodruffw | karma 35375 | avg karma 5.3 · 2021-10-04 12:31:56

It's very slow on the US East Coast. Most requests time out at least once and then succeed after a retry.

JohnFen | karma 30257 | avg karma 1.9 · 2021-10-04 12:33:06

It's painfully slow for me on the west coast of the US

cosmotic | karma 2872 | avg karma 3.21 · 2021-10-04 12:36:57

Seems the facebook outage is causing secondary outages https://downdetector.com/

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

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actually_a_dog | karma 2862 | avg karma 1.7 · 2021-10-04 12:42:41

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. :/

cwkoss | karma 10969 | avg karma 2.94 · 2021-10-04 14:19:23

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