[arm85]

It appears, halfway through reading this, it's become password protected.

[boringg]

I think its somehow related to the hackernews hug of death

[joshwheeler]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200621094606/https://www.other...

[seesawtron]

How come the actual post in now uesrname/password protected? Did the original author intend to use it commercially?

[raimue]

I would assume the site hit its traffic limit. The password protection was then added by the web hosting service. It is accessible again right now.

[boringg]

I assumed same thing. The question is why would they put a traffic limit on it? Seems like it goes against the hope for the website of generating readers... though I guess if he's paying for all the servers himself it makes sense to block at a certain point.

[seesawtron]

Seems to working again.