[HN Search admin speaking] We disabled the rate-limit for now. A load-balancer experimentation that didn't behave as expected (the LB's IP getting rate-limited).
Let’s say it was a mix of HN alerting (hnwatcher), good timing (Friday evening) and luck :) very happy to have seen this in time. Have a nice WE as well!
I must say I expected this post to kind of go into the ether, not for Algolia's VP of Engineering to reply with a solution within an hour :)
Have a nice weekend!