Pft. They have two boxes, a master & standby. Real gamers play on permadeath.

Actually HN is served from Sam Altman's fitbit now.

The current distribution Arc Lisp can be found at https://arclanguage.org. It ships with a forum that isn't up to date nor does it have feature parity with HN, which is kind of its own black box because Real Money is involved, and Real Money ruins everything.

Also there is a public fork of Arc Lisp at https://arclanguage.org/anarki, which is not guaranteed to be stable, and ships with a forum which is definitely not to feature parity with HN.

With that in mind I wonder what the uptime % of HN is, and if the master/standby setup involves automatic failover.

Occasional page load failure while logged in? Pretty common. Complete or nearly complete failure for logged-in users? Happens sometimes. Completely down such that not even a logged-out user can read it? I'm not sure I've ever seen that.

Has it bothered someone? Probably not.

In all my years, HN has been down just once.

I wonder if Reddit is ever going to fix their "you broke reddit" thing. I probably see that page a couple dozen times a year, and it's been going on since, what, 2014? Earlier maybe? It's like the Twitter fail whale. Except Twitter fixed their site.

Don't you mean a couple dozen times per day?

I notice short term outages every couple months. They usually don't last long.

I use HN a lot and it is very rare that it is down, and then only for a short period of time. (Not a very exact metric).

I do get an occasional no-response from firebase, but my guess is that this is really on my ISP. Again, that is also quite rare.