[jkells]

I don't understand why this outage and the Azure outage earlier don't make it to the front page.

I'm getting more up to date technical details from the regular media.

This outage looks to be huge.

[occamsrazorwit]

This is literally a black swan event that'll be memorialized in textbooks, and that's not even considering the actual fallout that will follow.

[DaoVeles]

That is not an understatement. This is literally the largest failing of internet infrastructure to date.

Alas, using the internet has given us a lot of efficiency. The trade off is resilience. The entire global system is more brittle than ever but it what gave it such speed.

[hnthrowaway0328]

Did you mean the Azure thing or CS thing? Just happened that the Azure thing did not impact me as I was already off...

[blinkersareon]

The impact is more than huge. Our whole workforce is impacted as the world's largest tech service provider.

[Scoundreller]

Y2K came 24+ years late!

[wfme]

Agreed, I assume people are flagging this post for some reason?

[speedgoose]

It’s most likely the flame war filtering algorithm of HN. Posts that create a lot of discussion quickly are down ranked until an admin fix the rank manually, or not.

[usr1106]

HN has some flame war protection I remember having read, downrating some discussions where it assumes nothing useful is being discussed.

Maybe a false positive? (100% speculation. That's the problem using closed source software)

[Scoundreller]

Most HNers are on the clock while browsing (for work purposes of course) and forcibly afk at the moment.

[d1sxeyes]

I'd guess also a significant proportion of us are involved in our company's response to the incident.