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by gibsonf1 • 19 years ago

27 131 19 years ago

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I've been getting increasing loss of news yc availability in the last few days. Is it just me, or is the server getting overloaded? (This was espeically a bummer as I was filling out the YC application)

jsjenkins1682• 19 years ago

Not just you, I've had it too over the last day or so.

Strangely, response time is still very good, so don't think it is due to server load..

german• 19 years ago

I've been having the same problems with news.ycombinator.com, but ycombinator.com loads everytime.

Zak2• 19 years ago

ycombinator.com has address 65.181.149.201 news.ycombinator.com has address 67.15.104.17

imsteve• 19 years ago

Response time is not the only thing that could be affected by server load. Those infamous threading problems (deadlock, race..) also are a possibility.

drm2372• 19 years ago

Yeah, here also. Hopefully it's not a load/scaling issue. It would be interesting to know more about the platform and hosting configuration.

It's interesting the server responds to pings, but the webserver seems to be shot when it's down.

Zak2• 19 years ago

PG has mentioned before that it's a custom web server written in Arc. It's not unusual for web server software to go down while the host machine keeps working - especially when it's experimental software written in an unfinished programming language.

brianmckenzie• 19 years ago

I had some trouble getting on earlier today, but this is the first time I've noticed anything.

johnrob• 19 years ago

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

henning• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him.

Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Xichekolas3• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves.

Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.

ptn4• 19 years ago

Paul Graham could get Hurd to work

mkull• 19 years ago

nerds

SwellJoe• 19 years ago

Paul Graham's tears have been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum.

lst3• 19 years ago

Paul_Graham(R), the well-known Registered Trademark, has finally found how not to die, and integrated and evaluater for this into his brain/organism.

So there's really hope for Arc to be finished in his life time, now!

russ• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he's not falling for your WFP ass-kissing attempts.

zyroth• 19 years ago

Paul Graham was written in lisp that itself was written in Paul Graham.

viergroupie• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is the current continuation.

andyn• 19 years ago

Paging tongue-ass extraction to item #60357!

edu• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he will skip this piece of news.

Paul Graham is so good, his DNA has an implementation of Lisp.

yters3• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, good was defined as (+ Paul Graham good), and implemented with tail recursion.

hazchem• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he always tips using $2.56 cheques made out by Donald Knuth.

drm2372• 19 years ago

Paul Graham can divide by zero.

ptn4• 19 years ago

When Paul Graham hacks, the Rocky Theme Song starts playing.

Paul Graham can find Waldo. Always.

Novash• 19 years ago

Pretty sure he must be laughing itself out right now reading it. PG, you're a hero for many people, you know? How about you giving your own contribution to this list?

By the way, I just noticed that there is no way to recover a password if you lost it?

PStamatiou• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he regularly comments on Hacker News.

birdman• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is an 8 foot tall beast-man who showers in grain alcohol and feeds his baby shrimp scampi

cysh• 19 years ago

Bjarne Stroustrup once tried to look upon Paul Graham, but was driven mad. Thus was born C++.

jdrake3• 19 years ago

Paul Graham needs no forks to dine with Philosophers.

pius• 19 years ago

Paul Graham when quined is Paul Graham when quined.

loumf• 19 years ago

After a few iterations, Rule 30 draws a picture of Paul Graham

alaughramp• 19 years ago

Paul Graham can write an essay entirely composed of sweeping generalizations.

icey3• 19 years ago

Paul Graham beat Duke Nuke'em Forever on Nightmare mode using only Arc macros.

cetaganda2• 19 years ago

Paul graham is so good, he multiplies 850 * 77.1 and gets 65,535

cetaganda2• 19 years ago

Al Gore didn't invent the internet, Paul Graham did. And then he invented Al Gore.

nextmoveone2• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he can beat corporate death into a submission with his bare hands.

bluishgreen• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good he can count up to 32 just by counting up to 16.

weiser• 19 years ago

There is an infinite number of primes, but Paul Graham is the greatest prime.

synthespian• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he can recurse infinitely. Twice. Just kidding. ;-)

Nate2• 19 years ago

Paul Graham's memory is so good that he doesn't need to have a search box on Hacker News because he can remember all the topics and urls.

Nate2• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.

rubyruy• 19 years ago

Paul Graham can compress ANY data by at least 1 bit, including binary 1.

lst3• 19 years ago

.tfel ot thgir si GP

kirubakaran2• 19 years ago

John McCarthy sent his son Paul Graham to save the world from Blub.

(I am agnostic. I googled for this biblical verse... uncannily, it is from the book of John.)

geezer• 19 years ago

Paul Graham can put n > m pigeons in m holes, each hole having no more than one pigeon.

nr• 19 years ago

Paul Graham doesn't need Viagra. He is NP-hard.

jaymaj212• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he can make the tower of babel from oatmeal and fingernail clippings.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Paul Graham funded Kurt Godel's startup and it turned profitable.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is the sentence that consistently asserts itself.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Paul Graham directly experiences Platonic world of ideas and finds an investor for each of them.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Paul Graham partitioned the Banach-Tarski ball, reassembled it back to two identical copies of itself and then sold the other copy to Yahoo for 100 million bucks.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is not afraid of going bankrupt. Going bankrupt is afraid of Paul Graham.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Paul Graham doesn't date Jessica Alba. On a first date, she didn't know how to implement Lisp in itself.

rhyde• 19 years ago

Who would win? Paul Graham or Jack Bauer?

terr• 19 years ago

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand Paul Graham, and those who don't know binary.

Goladus• 19 years ago

When Paul Graham goes to the cafeteria for lunch, he doesn't sit at a table. All the tables sit at Paul Graham.

jey• 19 years ago

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, PAUL GRAHAM.... wait, what?

CHIEFARCHITECT• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, that C++ is called PG++

rugoso• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so brainy, he has 2 left brains, and uses 0.3% of one of those to emulate Picasso's right brain, only with a better interface.

tejaswi• 19 years ago

Paul Graham's laptop was built by Cray.

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Lisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".

MasterOFLambda8• 19 years ago

Lisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".

big-j• 19 years ago

Any sufficiently complicated developer contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Paul Graham.

depleater• 19 years ago

Paul Graham can find a third factor for a prime number. And more, if he feels like trying.

jaymaj212• 19 years ago

Paul Graham made the world in six days, and sold it on the seventh day to become multi-millionaire.

There is no god but Paul Graham, and Paul Graham is His prophet.

Creationists are baffled by the question: "Who created Paul Graham?"

thomasswift• 19 years ago

Some of these are great.

zandorg2• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good, he carries a needle to burst Dotcom bubbles as he's not affected by them.

choas• 19 years ago

he just writes (paul graham) and yahoo will buy it

arun• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is a CIA experiment that went very very wrong....and he has an 'arc' chip embedded in his brain

ww• 19 years ago

Doctor Who has a real name, but Paul Graham encrypted it.

BobCat2• 19 years ago

Paul Graham can give three young men only $6000 for a whole summer of 'work'.

BobCat2• 19 years ago

Paul Graham ith tho thmart, he hath hith own dialect

gameguru• 19 years ago

Paul Graham only drives a car when his cdr is in the shop.

Paul Graham can be written in ten lines using macros.

Paul Graham can make NaN finally equal itself.

Paul Graham will resurrect Usenet on Judgment Day.

Paul Graham is the World Champion in Ambition.

qwqw• 19 years ago

Paul Graham is so good he somehow managed to take the credit for this paper. http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/sahami/papers-dir/spam.pd...

Morshwan• 18 years ago

The first virus was a poorly implementation of Paul Grapham's cell.

jradis1337• 18 years ago

Paul Graham isn't lactose intolerant, he just doesn't put up with lactose's shit!

mylostone• 18 years ago

I only expose my children to PG content.

run4yourlives• 19 years ago

DNS issues for sure folks.

jsjenkins1682• 19 years ago

DNS shouldn't cause intermittent on/off issues though, since hostname mappings are cached..

pg2• 19 years ago

Mzscheme is core dumping. We may have discovered some new bug. Rtm is investigating.

shadowplay5• 19 years ago

This seems to be a recurring theme with Lisp implementations. Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading); Vendetta Online switched from SBCL to Erlang (GC/memory leaks). Other people have hit major snags e.g. with Haskell/GHC runtime bugs (Wager Labs; switched to Erlang). Use a massively complex runtime, hit bugs that can't be fixed (in a start-up timeframe, anyhow)?

Kaizyn• 19 years ago

If more people used LISP runtime systems, then the bugs would be found more readily. Thus leading to fewer defections from LISP to Blubs.

brlewis• 19 years ago

This is a recurring theme with cutting-edge software. Arc is probably exercising parts of the mzscheme code that haven't been exercised before. Bugs will be fixed and things will be better.

dfranke3• 19 years ago

I rewrote my senior project in Common Lisp two weeks before the due date because I was running into too many bugs in mzscheme. Then I switched from clisp to SBCL because of a bug in clisp.

pg2• 19 years ago

No, turns out the system was just running out of memory.

euccastro• 19 years ago

Reddit switched from CMUCL to Python (threading)

Source? With the bashing Python is getting because of the GIL, it surprises me that someone would switch to Python from elsewhere for any reasons related to threading.

Mistone• 19 years ago

yep, count me in, very annoying indeed.

nextmoveone2• 19 years ago

Nope, it's been working for me!

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