← Back to context Comment by pancomplex 6 months ago thank god hn is hosted on a single bare metal server, free of all this bloat. 3 comments pancomplex Reply cddotdotslash 6 months ago I can recall plenty of times HN has been down. rldjbpin 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago I can recall plenty of times HN has been down. rldjbpin 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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.