Comment by Royce-CMR

2 years ago

The best part - the consultant who patched the server is on Hacker News! He commented on his part here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404

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dang  2 years ago

I'd forgotten about that! That part of the thread begins here: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights

  • arp242  2 years ago

    /highlights isn't on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists – is that intentional?

    I knew this existed, and I was looking for it a few weeks ago; it's an interesting page to browse through every once in a while. But I just couldn't remember the name until now.

    Having a "highlight" people can't find doesn't seem much of a "highlight" to me?

    • dang  2 years ago

      No, I just forgot.

      Edit: it's there now.

      Edit 2: I feel like adding an "I feel lucky" link on there that would give you a random sample from the list. It's in reverse chronological order and it would take quite a while to scroll back through all of the comments (there are over 400 at present).

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  • redbell  2 years ago

    > We put it in /highlights..

    +1, After two years from joining HN I’m still learning about it. This is the first time I heard about highlights section! I couldn’t find it in lists nor on any other part of the site yet still interesting to read some comments there that do not show up in best comments section. How exactly this works?

    • dang  2 years ago

      The word "best" in /best and /bestcomments doesn't mean best, it means most-upvoted. Upvotes, unfortunately, happen for reasons other than bestness.

      It's always irritated me but I haven't changed it, out of deference to history and lack of a pithy alternate name. Anyone?

      Maybe /up and /upcomments?

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croes  2 years ago

So the article says

>Well, the consultant came in and patched our server and rebooted it. But I called him, and he said he didn't touch the mail system.

But the comment

>Since my preference to wipe and reload was unacceptable - too much downtime and too many billable hours - the obvious thing to do was update sendmail

Must be the part where

>The story is slightly altered in order to protect the guilty