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This is known as "The HN Effect" where sites are temporarily overloaded (and go down) because they are featured on HN's home page.

• fn42 6y ago
  This has had a lot of names ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
• pier25 6y ago
  Also the Reddit hug of death