First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

I've further narrowed down the breakage point to between these two items, at least when initially checked (both now fail).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42937148 (works)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42937147 (fails)

(Also via email.)

This suggests an item-count or time-based sliding window to me.

As I write this, earliest accessible content is <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42937674> ... and that's just become inaccessible as I'm updating this comment.

And I've identified that it's the 1,000,000 most recent comments/posts which are accessible:

I just checked against oldest accessible article (at this writing), and subtracted that from the newest comment (from the "comments" titlebar link):

43938990 - 42938990 = 1000000

Others can confirm this by going to the newest comment, and subtracting 1000001 from the contentID to find the first inaccessible comment.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments>

Mods heard from, it's a known (and deliberately inflicted) issue.