I was using my phone browser when the site was down. What I noticed was that the "secure" icon was displayed when I tried to connect. However, this may have been an artifact in the address bar from the previous site which was secure - I haven't paid that much attention to how the phone's browser handles slow loads.

The reason it caught my attention was due to the recent https "Ask" threads, and my first thought was perhaps full time https had been implemented. I wouldn't bring it up except that it was unusual and correlated with HN content and the outage, even though it is likely to be a coincidence.