hnreputation

A bunch of people have been emailing me asking to have their IP unblocked after using this script http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master which apparently hits the server so hard that it gets their IP ignored.

Have you installed the recently posted greasemonkey script: http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master This may have triggered an automated block... It seems like a rather abusive script.

I did install this userscript recently: http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master Might that have triggered an automatic anti-scraping/anti-dos ban or something?

Since about two days I am unable to connect to Hacker News. My problem seems to be comparable to the one reported here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775381 Firefox shows simply a blank page (0 bytes), curl says "Empty reply from server" and Google Chrome notes "Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error." My IP address can be viewed at http://yfrog.com/el64282782g. I have maintained only this account, which is still available and I have never posted anything controversial. In fact, I haven't submitted or commented on anything in the last three weeks or so at all. I ought it highly unlikely that my family with whom I share this IP would be interested in Hacker News so that can't be it either. Can PG or someone else please check and see if my address is in fact banned or if it is a problem at the client's side. Thanks, Daniel