Vercel is down too.
My sites run on Cloudflare and Vercel, and I can't even log in to those right now.
I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...
HN definitely gets overloaded at times, including during big outages when everyone stampedes here. I got a bunch of "sorry, we can't serve your request" a little while back.
Pobody's nerfect.
Doesn’t HN run on top of firebase? Which ties it to Google? People seem to imply its run on a dedicated instance.
No; a copy of the HN database is synced regularly to Firebase (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), but IIRC the site itself runs on a single process on a single machine with a standby ready.