Comment by mintplant
11 years ago
Seriously. I use HN as my "am I connected to the internet?" check, as it always loads instantly even when Google takes a while.
11 years ago
Seriously. I use HN as my "am I connected to the internet?" check, as it always loads instantly even when Google takes a while.
I personally use : http://perdu.com (up since 1998) Which translate into:
Lost on the Internet? Don't worry, we will help * <----- you are here
What fast IP do you use when you suspect you're connected to the internet but can't resolve DNS? I'm looking for a good non-Google IP (because China)
Level3's DNS is easy to remember at 4.2.2.1. Or is that Verizon's?
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I still ping the IP address of my college's DNS server, all these years later. Muscle memory dies hard.
I'd love to see their stats. They have basically 0 content and I hit them 10 times a day.
Hah, glad it's not just me. It's also the thing I hit if I'm trying to think of what I was doing/am idle for a moment... typing 'news.' just seems to flow from my fingers if they're unoccupied.
There used to be a race between Google news (news.google.com) and Hacker News to be the top suggestion for me, hacker news has pulled away to a strong lead recently.
Ctrl-T, N, Enter :/
same here, I visit this site so much that only typing 'N' does the job.
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Yep, same for me. I'll be staring at the screen in thought, then up pops a Hacker News tab.
I have this habit too and it's deeply disturbing. Actively fighting it!
Why fight it? Visiting a technological/intellectual inspiration source definitely goes in my list of positive habits.
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I use HN because I can never trust whether anymore whether Google is really loading from a remote source or is just doing some aggressive caching magic (or whether Chrome just has the Google homepage baked in now).
In terms of uptime, HN has been hosted on a single server (until recently... I saw mention of a failover server). If you are just looking for a lightweight site to load, example.com is great.
Might want to spread that out over a few sites. Any one can go down.
Alexa's top 10 sites is usually a pretty good set.