Why was HN down for a few hours?

https://m5hosting.status.io/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

m5 hosting reported a "DDoS attack against a popular web site we host"

another submission notes that the https cert is newly cloudfare so looks like HN is using it to avoid the DDOS

Yes, this was the longest period in the last 6 months.

Sad site is down.

Happy my productivity is up today.