Awesome posts. You know, the entire internet is abuzz with _why news right now, ...

noodle · on Aug 20, 2009

i couldn't help but think of this exchange when i saw all of the _why things

- Nobody died. How can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?

- Then what died? Who are you mourning?

- A point of view.

Cain, Elbis O'Shaughnessy, and Abel, in Sandman: The Wake

dylanz · on Aug 20, 2009

That's a great exchange. Thanks for sharing that!

ErrantX · on Aug 20, 2009

thanks for reminding me of that :D read it years ago at school and you inspired me to dig a copy out.

blasdel · on Aug 20, 2009

Why are you so sure he's still alive?

This could easily be his way of saying "don't look for me, I'm gone, not missing". It's sensible when you're as anonymous as he is -- how else are people going to find out you're not coming back? (without the inane drama of a flounce: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flounce)

burke · on Aug 20, 2009

    ~ % dig +short hacketyhack.net
    72.232.19.34
    ~ % dig +short -x 72.232.19.34
    Cewki.com.

http://cewki.com was registered today and says:

    where's _why?
    see: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=773106

EDIT: So this is interesting. As far as I can tell, this site is hosted by Isaac Force, owner of autognosis.org, and ruby user. He lives in Oregon though, and is almost definitely not _why.

Also, cewki is Polish for "coil".

Maybe the problem is that I don't understand DNS. Is there some way reverse DNS could point at this guy's server without _why telling it to? What's going on? >_<

Deadsunrise · on Aug 20, 2009

In bind and most dns servers the ip reverse registers are saved in different zones than the domains. There are times when you get an ip address that was previously used and still has the reverse dns configured (usually ISPs cancel the domain or server but don't delete the reverse ip info).

It's possible but not too likely to happen.