Hacker News Down

#1

Post by areofyl » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 4:58 AM UTC

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Re: Hacker News Down

#2

Post by Humphrey » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

Ok, who prompted their AI agent to hack Hacker News?

#3

Post by runarberg » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:02 AM UTC

dang 10 hours ago:

> LLMs have helped us keep HN up and still (relatively) fast amid a huge onslaught of new traffic over the last year or so.

#4

Post by chrism238 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:02 AM UTC

Yes, it was, but how did you expect us to read your comment?

#5

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:02 AM UTC

FYI When this happens, HN is also reachable via Cloudflare

104.21.41.72

This has worked for me for several HN outages over a number of years

#6

Post by isobutane101 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:03 AM UTC

good comms

#7

Post by isobutane101 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

chrism238 wrote: post #4

Yes, it was, but how did you expect us to read your comment?

just go to the website and read it from there

#8

Post by isobutane101 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

Humphrey wrote: post #2

Ok, who prompted their AI agent to hack Hacker News?

my bad i forgot to say "don't hack into hacker news"

#9

Post by talltofu » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 5:06 AM UTC

This is the most meta news ever. Hacker news down announced on hacker news :)