[joeycfan]

Dude - your career will never go anywhere what with your fessing up to stuff like that. Let me fix that for you.

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Why HN was down

Yesterday, while toiling long into the night to make Hacker News better for you, our readers, I was assaulted by Ninjas.

While defending myself with the swift yet lethal Kung Fu that I picked up during my spell with the SAS, I was distracted long enough for them to sabotage the HN server.

Mission accomplished, they then immediately withdrew, the wounded dragging the dead with them.

After Herculean efforts, HN was brought back online a few hours ago, after a prolonged outage.

Rest assure, our readers, that every precaution will be taken to make sure this doesn't happen again.