https://hn.hund.io/ Is a status page, no idea if official or not, but it didn't register here for some reason.
I didn't read the post text, it's identified there haha, my bad! I wish the text post text wasn't grey, I gloss over it too easily.
This site said HN was fine and green the entire time it was down.
This was monitoring the unauthenticated news page, which is why it didn't catch it. It now monitors authentication as well. It is not official, and was made by a co-founder years ago.