Hi. I'm not really sure if this is the proper way to address this but the contact email addresses from ycombinator.com seemed even worse choices.<p>My problem is that since two days ago I'm unable to read news.ycombinator.com from my home connection. First I confirmed that the page still works by accessing from a different ISP (from where I post this) then I got confirmation from another person on the same ISP as me that he can also access without problems. It's not my computer either seeing how none of the other 5 in my house gets a better result. I'm on a dynamic IP and currently I have 87.221.94.63 and all I get when I go to news.ycombinator.com is blank page. Firebird says that the http code is 200 OK but with 0 bytes content and Chrome says: "Error 320 (net::ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE): Unknown error."<p>At this point I think It's possible I might have some sort of ban on my IP (it's dynamic, but does'n change very often so it's possible I still have the same as two days ago). I started (or I've noticed) wright after I restarted a crashed Firefox session and it tried to reload several tabs with HN threads. Maybe that rapid fire request tricked some IDS or something. I also noticed that previous to this (by a few days) I lost my ability to down vote comments without, to my knowledge, having done anything offending. So meybe a similar "session with many HN threads reloaded quickly" caused that and then decided enough is enough?<p>Please help... the internets are tasteless without HN :_(
(<small_and_almost_hidden>on the flip side I seem to have worked more the last two days but screw that and give me back HN</small_and_almost_hidden>)
I thought you needed to have 250 karma in order to down-vote things. There _might_ have been a change in the threshold, as you don't appear to have been given a lot of negative karma all of a sudden.