The fact that I had to finally place the site's IP into my own dns table / host file before cloudflare would resolve the link and cry "it's not them it's the host" ... tells me a lot. cloudflare snafu from my perspective, otherwise in 20 seconds I should have seen host issue whine.
Also a few up or down sites resolved the site was up.
Seems HN was down for 1hr, 9min (Yes, I monitor my favorite website :-D)
@dang: Can you share anything? Your work is appreciated as always!
It's because I finally made an account today after reading the site for like 15 years. Apologies.