They do this every time. Last thread I saw was Twitter had an outage for only 10k people for a short amount of time and HN was having a victory lap.
I personally don't think that 100% uptime for everyone around the globe is even a worthwhile goal for Twitter. The incremental costs for that last 0.5% aren't worth the incremental benefits.
HA is most necessary for what, journalists? (Who are already antagonized under Musk)
Everyone else can wait the hour.
