HN is painfully slow to me, partly because it chokes under load, and partly because nearly all software is painfully slow to me. It can definitely get a lot faster.
It's aliens. They literally announced they have been reverse engineering space ships from aliens from outer space. I mean I don't think it's true but it's what they announced.
No one official announced anything. Instead an "insider" claims this. Among the claims, is that aliens are working with governements, and provided key tech, such as fiber optics, and silicon chips.
Yeah. OK.
I can literay, over a century, trace all the key scientific discoveries, how they happened, for transistors, ICs, etc. There was no help.
And shining light through glass isn't that fancy of a tech.
These articles piss me off. They belittle the capabilities of humans, for profit.
I really wish the aliens would hurry up and give us fusion power already, and maybe the cure to all diseases, a theory of everything and quantum computing while they're at it. I didn't need compact discs that badly.
I setup a few ping monitors and have been trouble routing to Google all day. Intermittent packet loss. The other three I setup (Cloudflare, L3, and ATT) are all good. Funny enough I have Google Fiber, so I really have no clue what's going on.
I don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired connection. East coast, USA.
I’ve come to love powerline adapters when expanding Wi-Fi coverage just in case you haven’t looked into them. Speeds of the latest adapters are up to 2.4Gbps!
There’s a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I’m wondering what the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.
HN having server issues when a single post gets 1200 comments in two hours is pretty normal. I don't think any issues with the wider internet are implied
POTS has "no mobile capabilities" and is strictly "analog signal transmission over copper loops" [0] so I suspect that's the source of confusion in this case.
PSTN is probably the acronym you meant, which refers to "Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is almost entirely digital in its core network and includes mobile and wireless networks" [1].
HN is working without issue for me if I log out of my account. I was worried that my account was suspended for some unknown reason until I saw this post.
It is the hiccup that have been worring me in the past week. I've gotten 502 or error json files from banking, imdb, online doc for some api, gmail, but a retry fixed the issue always. It is not as sexy as all websites are down, but all website are of dubious quality now.
Had trouble with Google Chat messages getting queued. They automatically retried and were delivered only after restarting the device (Android). This was approximately 2.5 hours ago.
A conspicuous number of services are showing outages on downdetector and thousandeyes.