[jordn]

What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?

[alienth]

They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.

[salimmadjd]

Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects

[Sayter]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670