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How did I get here?

How did I get here?

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·November 7, 2025

FredPret

> "You may have noticed that the traceroute progressively loads in lines above the bottom line. Web pages can only load forward. Since I didn’t want to use any JavaScript, I did the hackiest thing possible: every time I update the traceroute display, I embed a CSS block that hides the previous iteration! Since browsers render CSS as the page is loading, this made it look like the traceroute was being edited over time."

Love this

F00Fbug

This is not my beautiful website.

aidenn0

And if you haven't ever seen it before, run

  tracepath -m60 bad.horse
and also

  openssl s_client -connect signed.bad.horse:443 -servername signed.bad.horse

lenova

Nice! Dr. Horrible would be proud of this geeky tribute:

  > tracepath -m60 bad.horse
  [...]
  16:  bad.horse                                            81.233ms asymm 10
  19:  he.rides.across.the.nation                           85.365ms asymm 11
  20:  he.got.the.application                               96.067ms asymm 13
  23:  it.needs.evaluation                                 112.377ms asymm 15
  24:  a.heinous.crime                                     114.826ms asymm 17
  25:  a.show.of.force                                     120.842ms asymm 18
  26:  bad.horse                                           133.089ms asymm 20

fragmede

also

    ssh funky.nondeterministic.computer

arionmiles

I thought this was going to play a Talking Heads song

fredland

letting the days go by

bongodongobob

Doesn't work. Traceroute showed only 1 hop.

decafbad

Mine too. Maybe it's CGNAT.

metabagel

Read the green text

andrewshadura

Same as it ever was.

paulddraper

Doesn't seem to be working?

ninju

HN Hug of death ?

Razengan

I thought this was going to be a review of life choices

einpoklum

The review of life choices happens in our heads when we click this link on the main HN page.

(sigh) I'm just thinking those thoughts right now.