Tell HN: You can also use this url to reach Hacker News (hacker.news)

The HN "hug of death"?

    The connection has timed out

    The server at hacker.news is
    taking too long to respond.

So it's a redirect basically

    $ curl -I hacker.news
    HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
    Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:17:20 GMT
    Location: https://news.ycombinator.com/
    Server: AmazonS3