The parent's concern is with the "could" in your sentence.

Unlike other web sites, the people of HN used to pride themselves on presenting facts, not speculation. Rumors were left for places like Facebook and now Reddit.

  Starlink VP of engineering Michael Nicolls tweeted that the service has "now mostly recovered from the network outage" after two and a half hours.

  "The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network. We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network, and will fully root cause this issue and ensure it does not occur again," the tweet, posted at 3:23 p.m. PT, says.

Edit: funny, can't even access the replies..