Yeah, it's whether news.ycombinator.com loads :P

EDIT: Yes: https://twitter.com/HNStatus

HN is so reliable that’s it’s almost never needed one. I’m extremely curious how HN survived this; almost positive they used cloudflare at one point.

I think the official status page is @hnstatus on Twitter, or something like that.

They did use Cloudflare, but also haven’t for some time.

HN is reliable until AWS Route53 goes down :).