Things about which Hacker News cares being down, and of which it has noticed:
Skype network is down, possibly under viral DoS attack. Lessons?<br></br>Is this why Twitter is down? Their Engineer Speaks<br></br>Amazon is down ... implications for AWS?<br></br>The Website Is Down (Hilarious 10 Minute Video)<br></br>Matthew Simmons: The only way is down<br></br>GitHub is down<br></br>KK on Unabomber: pounce on [technology] when it is down and kill it before it rises again<br></br>Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites<br></br>Tell HN: Authorize.net is down<br></br>Dreamhost is down. All of it.<br></br>Most of Slicehost is Down<br></br>Ubisoft DRM authentification server is down, Assassin's Creed 2 unplayable<br></br>Dropbox is down<br></br>Heroku is down for the third time today<br></br>Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry<br></br>Great. Skype is down.<br></br>Reddit Is Down To One Developer<br></br>AWS is down, but here's why the sky is falling<br></br>Amazon EC2 EU-West is down<br></br>Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.<br></br>Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the land<br></br>Heroku is down<br></br>Tell HN: Heroku is Down (update: recovering as of 10PM PST)<br></br>AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US<br></br>Heroku is down again<br></br>Google Talk is down<br></br>GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down<br></br>Github is down<br></br>Netflix is Down<br></br>Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free<br></br>This site is down because the owner stiffed the web designer<br></br>Dropbox is down<br></br>WhatsApp is down<br></br>DreamObjects is down<br></br>Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)<br></br>YTMND is down for temporary maintenance<br></br>Google Cloud Is Down<br></br>GitHub is down<br></br>DigitalOcean block storage is down<br></br>Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up<br></br>Slack is down<br></br>[dupe] Slack is down<br></br>Tell HN: GitHub is down again<br></br>Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service<br></br>Twitter's API is down?<br></br>
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