Oh man, I had no idea this got reposted and I just discovered now, 8 hours later. Anyway, I kicked the server and its back up.

Is there an HN version of slash-dotted?

It wasn't actually down from overuse, the node.js server hit an unhandled error and fell over. And because this is the first time I was seeing real usage, I didn't have a supervisor in place to restart it automatically. That's handled now, of course.

Same here. Thought it was my firewall at first. Thanks for confirming.

HN's hug of death

hacker smacker smacked down

HN smacked