DailyKos is down too, so I expect it's an AWS problem.

I noticed Hacker News being slow at roughly the same time that Reddit went down, though that's probably a coincidence.

dang commented on this in the GPT thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344

>All: our poor server is smoking today* so I've had to reduce the page size of comments. There are already a thousand comments in this thread but if you want to read more than a few dozen you'll need to page through them by clicking the More link at the bottom. I apologize!

>Also, if you're cool with read-only access, just log out and all will be fast again.

>* yes, HN still runs on one core, at least the part that serves logged-in requests, and yes this will all get better someday...it kills me that this isn't done yet but one day you will all see

Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.

Likely because people who browse both sites are now more likely to browse hn.

According to reddit, it is an internal issue: https://www.redditstatus.com/

My guess is cascading effect of failures (slower delivery of messages, some internal connection issues, probably degraded database and etc.) that caused a bigger problem that they're trying to fix. That, or DNS.