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I don't know what was wrong, but restarting news seems to have fixed it. Whatever it was may have only affected logged in users, which may be why our auto-restarter didn't notice anything was wrong.

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It might also not help, but for me, in the last hour at least accessing HN returned an empty response from the server, no errors, just no output at all.

Me too. I cleared the cookie and couldn't log back in, tried to create a test account and got the same empty response in both cases.

Don't know if it helps but it only affected pages where the logged in user info appeared in the top right.

The submit page was working all through (even when logged in).

I could modify comments during that time as well

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