Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down?

Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats?

Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins!

Update: 1500 in ~40 mins

Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)

The recent youtube-dl takedown had a similar number of votes but still slightly slower, I think. I think it was >500 in 30min and >1000 in 60min if I remember correctly.

Some politics topics have shot up pretty quickly in the past but user and/or mod flags send them back to page 2 about as quickly.

Funny this post is already #7. Are we seeing many reports again?

Stats right now: 1985 points | 1 hour ago | 597 comments

Maybe, could have just seen a dropoff in upvotes once the issue was resolved also

reddit, nanog, 4chan, twitter — pick your poison

"poison" is a particularly apt description for all of the above

> I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down?

Probably: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

HN was having problem showing anything for the past 10 min or so. I was going to ask if HN was down, then I saw this.

HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.

Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?

Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage.

There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.

TIL. What for?

The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Accessing the site anonymously fixes it (logged sessions are not chaced)