Comment by pancomplex 2 days ago thank god hn is hosted on a single bare metal server, free of all this bloat. 3 comments pancomplex Reply cddotdotslash 2 days ago I can recall plenty of times HN has been down. rldjbpin 2 days ago it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API detaro 2 days ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
cddotdotslash 2 days ago I can recall plenty of times HN has been down. rldjbpin 2 days ago it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API detaro 2 days ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
rldjbpin 2 days ago it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API detaro 2 days ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
detaro 2 days ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
I can recall plenty of times HN has been down.
it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)
as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?
[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API
the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.