From the HN Guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to

From the HN Guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.[1] A posting saying some service is down doesn't have any intellectual content. Just because people post these all the time doesn't mean they're on-topic. Also, if someone depends on a service, they probably don't need HN to tell them the service is down. They can easily check the status page themselves, and the status page will probably be more up-to-date than the HN post. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html