All: speech here isn't very free when the server can't stay up, and it's smoking right now, for obvious reasons.
I'm going to prune some of the top-heavy subthreads and possibly restrict the page size a bit. There are over 2500 comments in this thread, and if you want to read them all you're going to have to click "More" at the bottom of each page, or go like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025061&p=2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025061&p=3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025061&p=4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31025061&p=5
...and so on. Sorry everyone! (Yes, fixes are coming, yes it's all very slow.)
Edit: also, if some of you would log out for the day, that would ease the load considerably. (I hate to ask that, but it's true. Make sure you haven't lost your password!)