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		khangtoh on Jan 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's homepage was down The really interesting thing that really happened was Techcrunch's reporting of this news worthy event. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/amazon-com-down-503-service... It's sad that "tech" bloggers don't research and report on news worthy things anymore, they just take what's on Hacker News and call it news.

zbowling on Jan 31, 2013 | [–]

Traditional news does with the AP and Reuters news wires. Hacker News is a newswire of the tech world.

robryan on Jan 31, 2013 | [–]

Makes sense, you are one reporter with little more information than everyone else before you know what the story is. Of course the thousands of people on HN are going to beat you to a story like this.

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