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laCouron Hacker News Has Degraded Service

I'm with Hund. It was only monitoring the cached, unauthenticated news page, which was up throughout the downtime. However, it now monitors the authenticated news landing as well.

laCouron Tell HN: HN was down

Mistake on our part (Hund) for not monitoring authentication. This page is unofficial and was made by a co-founder several years ago.

laCouron Tell HN: HN was down

This was monitoring the unauthenticated news page, which is why it didn't catch it. It now monitors authentication as well. It is not official, and was made by a co-founder years ago.

laCouron Tell HN: HN was down

I'm with Hund. Our hn.hund.io page did not catch this because it was requesting the cached, unauthenticated page. It now monitors authentication as well.

laCouron Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10

They only just clarified that monitoring was in place and they were reporting as healthy. See the comments above.

laCouron Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10

Right, but they didn't recover speedily. To have the cluster in such a state for so long sounds like poor monitoring to me because this can knowingly interfere with an election later.

laCouron Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10

"[Four days prior to the incident] Two nodes became stalled for yet-to-be-determined reasons."

How did they not catch this? It's super surprising to me that they wouldn't have monitors for this.

laCouron SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora

If I'm not mistaken, Rdio's engineering team helped build Pandora's on-demand service. I've switched to it from Spotify after using Rdio in the past. Its recommendations feel similar to Rdio's, but the interface is a bit lacking. There aren't general recommendations. Instead, you must build a playlist and then you can add a set of recommended songs to the playlist. Of course, there are also radio stations.

laCouron Beautiful Racket

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180509201622/https://beautiful...

laCouron AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don’t Learn the Hard Way

Lightsail instances are just T2 instances, and they are not exempt from CPU credits.

From https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/

> Lightsail uses burstable performance instances that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the additional ability to burst above the baseline.

laCouron Show HN: detecting cache latency inside a Web browser

i5-4690K (L1 4x32KB; L2 4x256KB; L3 6MB): https://i.imgur.com/FUs1isW.png

LG v30 (L2 2MB): https://i.imgur.com/q5R3bLY.png

laCouron Some .io nameservers are returning wrong results again

13:14 UTC through 15:54 UTC here.

laCouron Show HN: Automated Status Pages

The biggest benefit over StatusPage.io is that our platform's design focuses on automation through integrations with third parties. StatusPage.io pages can only be automated through their direct integration with PagerDuty, or by parsing email notifications (from services like New Relic or Pingdom). We have the ability to add countless integrations with third parties for both monitoring and notifications.

Branding is important for companies, so we've chosen to offer complete white-labeling on our single plan. We leverage Let's Encrypt so that status pages can be instantly configured to use a secure custom domain.

These are just a few of the key differences, our features section outlines these and more.

laCouron Show HN: Slack Night Mode

You're totally right, just checked. Never even crossed my mind that they wouldn't be. Updated the post.

laCouron Show HN: Interestin

Seeing a bit of inspiration from Quora; nice idea and execution.

You're capitalizing last names, whereas names can start with lowercase letters (as does mine). The content shouldn't be pushed to the right, it's harder to read, consider moving the topic list to the right side instead. The line length isn't too bad, but reading is made much worse when it's pushed to the right because of the topic list.

laCouron 'Don't panic': One-tonne satellite falling to Earth

Direct link: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=34602

More information: https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-...

laCouron Few successful entrepreneurs blog

Tobi Lütke of Spotify - http://tobi.lutke.com/

Dalton Caldwell of App.net - http://daltoncaldwell.com/

Suhail Doshi of Mixpanel - http://sufficientlyadvanced.net/

Jack Groetzinger of SeatGeek - http://jackg.org/

Eric Koester of Zaarly - http://ekoester.com/

laCouron Why US Healthcare sucks and how I’m trying to change it

For those that haven't seen or read Paul Graham's bit on ongoing diagnosis: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html (#7)

Or if you prefer to watch it from 2012's PyCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI#t=1587