I feel like HN's server aren't very happy with everybody doing this though.

Stop bullying the servers :(

Yep, HN getting it's very own HN hug of death from google

Haha, the irony!

This wouldn't be a problem if HN migrated to a blockchain written in go for performance

Wait. I thought Rust is the new kid on the block

Would never work without a powerful AI engine in the middle.

This is probably like an user flood wave, crushing all platforms in its wake. Give it 10 minutes and Reddit will be down as well :)

HN was actually down for me when I first checked. I was wondering what possible infrastructure HN and youtube could have in common before it clicked

I came to HN to see if there was news to calm me down, we just started business day here, and as soon I tried to login some 30 minutes ago, Google claimed my paid business account didn't exist, so I came here to check if there was some mass banning or something like that.

I noticed Gmail and of course the google doc I was working on were unavailable. I didn't come check HN until I said to my wife "Google's down" when she complained her email didn't work and she said "check the news to see if Google's really down"

who would have thought a lot of folks here also use google products.

for real, though, hacker news is getting slower every second since this thread is up. i won't be shocked if it goes down due to the surge of traffic due to google outage