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Comment by wvl | Hacker News Reader

From the server:

    $ curl http://news.ycombinator.com
    curl: (52) Empty reply from server

You might have been seeing dns problems, per: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3438134

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(FWIW, this is what happens when you hit the rate limit autoblocking that HN has. Irritatingly enough, I have been blocked multiple times simply for opening Chrome and having it reopen my old tabs, most of which are from this site; once was for almost a week.)

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