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.
Re:Google outage – resolved
by throwawaylolx on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:07AM
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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
Re:Google outage – resolved
by devenblake on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:01AM
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"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/
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)