I know it's a hot topic. There are at least eight stories on the front page related to the chaos. But can we please stop upvoting each and everything? The article is just seven facts, all of which we know already. There's not enough information to speculate what exactly happened and it would be foolish to do so. Let the dust settle!
You don't have to visit HN. And if you want to read about other subjects you can just ignore these links. There is no way that HN will ignore what is happening to OpenAI because it is the company that has had the most effect on the tech world in the last two years.
HN is not responsive because it urgently needs a performance upgrade and is on a single core.
Amazing though that it holds up as well as it does though. But I think the HN server will see some more traffic before the OpenAI circus has run its course. It's been a whole hour without a new major event, I wonder what's keeping them.
Well, yes but that's mostly because of Dang's continuous loving attention. The foundation of HN is not horizontally scalable and that shows, even though the bulk of the data is served from a CDN the updates due to highly active threads are what kills it.
