Logging onto KF amidst the DDOS attack

babaGAReeb said:
what is hacker news about? sounds too butthurt to be a bunch of hackers

and who did the ddos attack
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Hacker News is absolute dog shit. There are no hackers there. Just pompous web developers and Google/Apple fans. They huff their own farts almost as much as Metafilter's users do. If you want to see a delightfully well-written weekly digest of the stupid shit they say and do, you should read http://n-gate.com/. Whoever runs that site really dislikes HN and is very good at illustrating what's wrong with it. A sample:

How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
July 22, 2019 (comments)
An Internet provides information about how to tell whether an article of clothing is a piece of shit. Since none of the evaluated metrics are accessible over HTTP, none of these practices are available to Hackernews. Therefore, Hackernews turns to a topic of conversation in which they are all experts: economics. The few Hackernews who have been exposed to high-quality clothing express some unobjectionable opinions on the matter, but all of the subsequent comments turn into arguments about brands.
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babaGAReeb said:
what is hacker news about? sounds too butthurt to be a bunch of hackers

and who did the ddos attack
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Hacker doesn't necessarily imply some l33t c0der in a dark room writing exploits, it just means someone who likes to tinker with computers
 
moocow said:
Hacker News is absolute dog shit. There are no hackers there. Just pompous web developers and Google/Apple fans. They huff their own farts almost as much as Metafilter's users do. If you want to see a delightfully well-written weekly digest of the stupid shit they say and do, you should read http://n-gate.com/. Whoever runs that site really dislikes HN and is very good at illustrating what's wrong with it. A sample:
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those be some powerful farts

look at this one
Adblocking: How about Nah?
July 27, 2019 (comments)
An Internet posts a rambling essay with an incoherent headline, which appears to have hastily been cut for length, but which apparently expresses an opinion about advertising on the web. Hackernews marshals a defense of their deeply-held conviction that it is impossible for two human beings to communicate without at least one other human being receiving money in the process. People suggesting otherwise are immediately demonized and those who do not patiently accept corporate lobbying are declared parasites on modern society. Some Hackernews timidly suggest that maybe more advertising would be tolerated if it weren't implemented as a panopticon-style javascript Rube Goldberg machine, but this too is clearly sinister anti-social psychopathy.
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what a bunch of cucks
turn off that adblock or youre a psychopath!
 
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Long-time lurker, first-time user...

The .net TLD worked for me via web proxy until Null changed the landing to report the effects of the attack. After that, the .nl and .pl TLD's were intermittent, but working.

Nice to see it all back up and running for the most part.
 
I... clicked my bookmark like always and the site loaded.

They post about DDoS attacks in the news section at the top of the page but I rarely ever experience any downtime.
 
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