HN search engine now shows Google's 404 error page (hn.algolia.com)

41 points by gslin 2y ago ↗ HN

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Also screenshoted at https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algoli... and https://archive.ph/JLqBo

What a day to forget my wallet at home. I wonder if this is preventing me from adding my card to GPay, because I am getting this exact error.

Joker_vD 2y ago ↗

That's why I always have a couple of notes shoved in a back pocket of my pants; I haven't once forgotten to put my pants on when leaving home (yet)!

petercooper 2y ago ↗

It's returning a certificate for *.a.run.app rather than hn.algolia.com for some reason. I dug around a bit and you can (temporarily?) use this to access it: https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/

Edit: And it's back! Edit 2: And it's gone again!

[deleted] 2y ago ↗

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Faaak 2y ago ↗

I hope this service doesn't die as it's a really good search for HN comments

theolivenbaum 2y ago ↗

If you need an alternative, we host one at https://hn.curiosity.ai

stronglikedan 2y ago ↗

I think we may have broke it. I get an "Unavailable" message. Kudos, nonetheless.

TacoSteemers 2y ago ↗

Apparently *.run.app domains are using something called Google Hosted, and that is how a Google 404 page came up.

causeisunknown 2y ago ↗

It is my daily go-to page to check HN. I hope it will be fixed soon.

makestuff 2y ago ↗

I was testing out something and ran into this issue yesterday as well. I created a cname to point to http://ip.jsontest.com/ so I could validate my DNS was working. For some reason I was getting the google 404 page.

danpalmer 2y ago ↗

That would be because that site is hosted on a Google service, but depends on the hostname to figure out which customer/backend to use. This is normal for any multi-tenant hosting. Your CNAME is not registered for that application in the hosting service's database and therefore they can't tell what it's for.

Remember that a CNAME isn't a redirect or anything, there's literally no way for the receiving webserver to know the domain that was CNAME'd in these sorts of requests.

justinclift 2y ago ↗

Seems ok now, at least when browsing HN from Australia.

mattmaroon 2y ago ↗

Kind of strange how it’s been something like 17 years and HN still doesn’t have useful search built in. But also I guess kinda cool that you can build something that is popular for decades with little up no updates.

rollcat 2y ago ↗

Sometimes software is just done.

HN is pretty close to perfect. The only things I'd change are cosmetic (dark mode, better mobile CSS, etc).

Brian_K_White 2y ago ↗

I think as long as dupe posts are not desired, and there is no search to find dupes before posting, that it can't be called done.

dang 2y ago ↗

They're working on a new deployment and cert stuff probably got left off the list, as many of us (raising hand) can attest it sometimes does. It'll get fixed.