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		cbhl on Jan 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for ... Unfortunately, it took me 12 hours to find out the site was back up because the outage page had been cached for me. I had to realize I had to do a hard-refresh of the page.

ricardobeat on Jan 7, 2014 [–]

That's only because HN set a 10 year expiration header, as pointed out by the article.

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