The outage came shortly after pg retweeted (https://twitter.com/davidstamm/status/229926404333129728 https://twitter.com/davidstamm/status/229926404333129728):

The outage came shortly after pg retweeted (https://twitter.com/davidstamm/status/229926404333129728 https://twitter.com/davidstamm/status/229926404333129728): @davidstamm: In the hour of your death, you will not warmly recall the many hours you spent engaging in vitriolic debates on Hacker News. So I just assumed the downtime was a social experiment. Maybe even a new circuit-breaker: when global thread sentiments get a bit too snippy, the entire site goes dark for a short period.