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As another commenter noted, the news is simply that the phone is available (in stock) once again. I've been waiting for several weeks, and thought others may have been waiting as well. They tend to sell out so quickly that I thought posting would let my friends at hacker news have a chance to purchase one if they wish. While it's not necessarily representative of the majority of the hardware in people's hands, there is value to having a test phone that supports the latest version of the OS.

Of course, the interesting part of the story (at least to me) is that the phone seems to be much more popular in death than it ever was in life. I've noticed the number of accessories seems to be increasing rather than disappearing as you'd expect for a $500+ unsubsidized phone, and that google can't seem to keep them in stock (although this may just be due to the amount of orders they're making now vs the past).