Confess to HN: Indubitably, this downtime must have been our fault.

9 points by Eliezer 17y ago ↗ HN

HN went down just as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064 was voted up to #1. This was the article "You're calling who a cult leader?" at http://lesswrong.com.

Considering that the Less Wrong site format was inspired by HN, that LW is based on Reddit source code, and that Reddit is a Y Combinator company, I guess that writing about (famous LISP advocate) Paul Graham and then getting voted up on Hacker News was just Too Much Recursion for a site named after lambda calculus.

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kylec 17y ago ↗

Too much recursion? I thought Arc had tail recursive optimization; guess we better check and make sure our functions are written properly so this doesn't happen again. ;-)

swombat 17y ago ↗

People should vote that story up! I was looking forward to the discussion on that, but now it's slowly falling down the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064