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Curiosity got the better of me. Why was there a 6 ID gap between the last post and first post? The answer seems to be that admins were making posts, which is neat. (There was also one lonely Flexport job ad.)

Is your backup system tied to your API? Algolia is a third party service, and streaming the latest HN data to Algolia seems pretty similar to streaming it to a backup system.

>>sillys+(OP)
I posted a bunch of test things and then deleted them.

>>sillys+(OP)
i got that Flexport ad too.. haha kinda alarming if they are the only YC company still hiring

>>dang+c
I love this answer so much.

>>scott_+Zd1
I really wanted to ask “How did you post things if the server was down?” but perhaps some things are better left as mysteries.

>>sillys+GT1
You could see them via HN’s API before they were deleted, nothing interesting; API was back up before the www.

>>sillys+GT1
The server was up for us before it was up for everybody else.

>>O_____+r02
Good observation. Posting something and then seeing it show up in the API was one of the things we were testing. It exercises a lot of the code.

>>swyx+xa
Btw, job ads get queued long in advance and then the software picks the next one when it's time for a job ad. After 8 hours of being down, the software thought it was time for a job ad.