[jpwgarrison]

A wise colleague recently explained to me that if you build HA things HA from the start, it's only a little more than 2x. If you try to make an _existing_ system HA, it's 3x at best. HN is not a paid service, they can be down for a few hours per year, no problem. We're not all going to walk away in disgust.

[joshmanders]

Not to mention the HNStatus[0] twitter account has so few tweets[1] I don't think it's even worth it.

[0]: https://twitter.com/HNStatus

[1]: Last tweet since before today's incident was 2 years ago, 4 years ago since the one before that.