I've noticed a strange bug with the latest version of Chrome where pages sometimes don't render. Try opening the developer tools, this usually causes the page to render for me.
I've noticed the same bug, but dev tools doesn't seem to do anything and view-source is blank. This one though seems to be a site issue:
$ traceroute blog.ycombinator.com
traceroute to posthaven.com (50.63.202.48), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10.142.83.65 (10.142.83.65) 0.892 ms 0.719 ms 0.769 ms
2 216-13-232-1.dedicated.allstream.net (216.13.232.1) 1.213 ms 3.646 ms 1.234 ms
3 216-23-136-13.dedicated.allstream.net (216.23.136.13) 2.256 ms 8.470 ms 1.299 ms
4 66-46-123-225.dedicated.allstream.net (66.46.123.225) 18.638 ms 12.393 ms 13.011 ms
5 eqix-ch.godaddy.com (206.223.119.141) 58.324 ms 61.302 ms 60.216 ms
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