Ask HN: Are github pages down?

5 points by vivekprakash ↗ HN
I am not able to access the blog http://engineering.hackerearth.com/ which is hosted via github pages. It shows the error related to varnish cache.

Error 503 Backend is unhealthy Backend is unhealthy Guru Meditation: XID: 2373250785 Varnish cache server

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Either GitHub is making headway in mitigating the DDoS attack, or not all GH pages sites were affected. (My repos pages are working fine.)
Github gets DDoS'd a lot more than I'd expect. How did they even make enemies like that?
What is the point in this thread? http://status.github.com will answer that question. HN doesn't need threads asking / telling people whether things are down