Ask HN: Why did HN just go down?

2 years ago

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Ask HN: Why did HN just go down? 16 points by chrisshroba 25 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments For a couple minutes, Hacker News was returning 502 Bad Gateway error codes with the message that "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!".

Any idea what happened?

The gateway must have went bad and then got good again

I noticed that as well, and also saw a similar "blackout" a few days ago that lasted longer. First time ever in years... so wondering if something has changed / is changing on their side.

Elon Musk buying Twitter thread probably.

Happens almost every day for me, but I basically live on this site. It will usually only last 10-15 seconds, some as long as 2 minutes.

Every week or so, HN will give me that error, but it's almost always back in a few minutes. I don't really think that much about it, sometimes we all have bad days.

Didn’t you hear? Musk has launched an hostile takeover of hacker news too! /s

Same for me! It is now working but seems a bit degraded in terms of response time.

My theory: The admins were trimming a whole bunch of submissions about Musk's takeover that all appeared at once, to try to force everything into one mega-thread submission. Everyone saw the news/tweet and rushed to HN to be the one who picks up all those precious HN karma points!

In any event, don't worry about it! There are other sites on the internet.

good theory, would be interested why that'd cause a 502 though

I think it means there were 502 duplicate submissions. We're down to only 200 so it should be smooth from here on out.

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