[hirako2000]

Hackernews is notorious for causing outages when a link to a self hosted site trends.

Beware if you post article's in there.

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[technothrasher]

> Hackernews is notorious for causing outages when a link to a self hosted site trends.

This made me briefly nostalgic for the old glory days of Slashdot, which is the first place I recall that would cause the "hug of death".

[mlrtime]

/. affect was a real thing for sure. I'm not sure it happens much on HN.

My guess is a combination of tech being better and HN having lower volume vs peak /. (before digg&reddit).

[ChoGGi]

I believe the hug of death is Reddit, Slashdot was slashdotted.