78 pointsby coderbants6 hours ago39 comments

HPSimulator10 minutes ago
I ran into this with my own SaaS a while back.
One day I started getting API errors across requests and initially assumed it was something on my side. After digging into it, the provider I was using was getting overloaded and intermittently failing.
That was the moment I realized relying on a single external service was a risk I hadn’t really planned for.
Now I keep two providers configured: a primary and a secondary. If error rates spike or the API stops responding, the system can fail over instead of the whole product going down.
It added a bit of complexity, but the peace of mind is worth it.
rethab6 hours ago
Same issue here. What was the name of that question and answer site again where you had to manually copy and paste code from? ;-)
Official status is still green: https://status.claude.com/
But downdetector is clear: https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
/edit: there's an official incident now: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt
- giancarlostoro5 hours ago
  They just updated it some 4 minutes ago.
  > Update - We're currently investigating issues with Claude Code and Claude.ai. Some users may be unable to log in, and others may experience slower than usual performance. The Claude API is not affected.
- Lionga3 hours ago
  vibe coded trash....
- buddhistdude5 hours ago
  oh about that one... we killed it unfortunately
izolate5 hours ago
Does anyone recall how to code manually? I certainly don't :-)
- thrill5 hours ago
  I do - but then I shudder, and go make a sandwich - which still needs me for the moment.
  - pan69an hour ago
    What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?
    pixl97an hour ago
    sudo make me a sandwich
- Hamuko5 hours ago
  The C-suite doesn't want us to write code by hand anymore, so I think I'm supposed to just drink tea and collect salary whenever Claude is down.
- siva75 hours ago
  I also don't recall what i'm going to do tomorrow as busy as i am. That's what calendars are for.
- behnamoh5 hours ago
  I feel ashamed writing code while Claude does it way better than me... I've found my forte is at designing systems and making project-level decisions, something that Claude still doesn't do very well.
lnenad6 hours ago
It's really amazing how stability of platforms has gone down in the last year or so.
- romanhn5 hours ago
  If only this was correlated with something else going on in the industry...
- skeledrew4 hours ago
  The mass immigration probably still taking a toll.
- erksa5 hours ago
  yes, the new normal is crazy. Claude/Github et al.
  They are dogfooding their own tools and causing so much downtime, all in the spirit of "staying a head".
- Ancalagon2 hours ago
  The schadenfreude is so fucking palpable
  - ramon156an hour ago
    Weird take, will you also look sour at devs who use local LLM's in ~50 years? Or is that different
djohnston13 minutes ago
coding is largely solved - a soundbite that will live in infamy
prmph5 hours ago
Are they going to extend my subscription time as a result? It ends today, but I was locked out an hour or so ago, and I'm not sure if that was actually due to this outage.
All the vibe coding is clearly not working out too well.
eduardogarza4 hours ago
Can someone that's worked at one of these big companies honestly explain how it happens that when these guys are down, it's never for like 10-15 mins ... it's always 1-2+ hours? Do they not have mechanisms in place to revert their migrations and deployments? What goes on behind the scenes during these "outages"?
- aix14 hours ago
  Part of it observability bias: longer, more widespread outages are more likely to draw signficant attention. This doesn't mean that there aren't also shorter, smaller-scope outages, it's just that we're much less likely to know about them.
  For example, if there's a problem that gets caught at the 1% stage of a staged rollout, we're probably not going to find ourselves discussing it on HN.
- jcfrei4 hours ago
  Quick fixes have tendencies to break other stuff and just make matters worse. Better to leave it offline for a little longer, fix the definitive root issue and make sure it comes online nicely. If the issue was just a quirk in a recent deployment then these probably can be reverted easily on the endpoints where they were just deployed (I'm sure they are using staggered roll-outs). These long term downtime things are probably not issues related to a recent release.
- Ocerge3 hours ago
  You will run into thundering herd/hotspotting/pre-warmed caching issues when you have to restart. There's generally not an easy to way to switch these sorts of systems on and off, especially a relatively new system that isn't battle-hardened.
  I got nothing for the github outages this year though, that seems like incompetence.
- mrguyoramaan hour ago
  Well when the coding agents go down who are they supposed to ask what the problem is?
  They should probably buy subscriptions to those Chinese agents.
bartread5 hours ago
I don't know about down but I use the VS Code extension on a Pro plan (that I'm considering upgrading from) and it's been slower than molasses flowing uphill in winter for me this afternoon. I'm (a) feeling unwell, and (b) up against a deadline, so this is starting to damage my calm.
iamsaitam3 hours ago
Login failed: Request failed with status code 500
Good times..
astatine5 hours ago
Same issue. Getting an "internal server error" message
avra6 hours ago
I was wondering the same. They just updated the status page but it was showing green for a while and I couldn't login.
https://status.claude.com/
- coderbants6 hours ago
  The issues have been described as login/logout, but I'm not sure that's all that's happening. In today's outage and the last the API stopped and kicked the session out.
  I only mention this in case someone from Anthropic perhaps isn't aware that it seems to be a wider issue than login/logout (although I'm sure they are!)
- behnamoh5 hours ago
  Weird because it shows green but obviously things aren't working.
- verelo5 hours ago
  Jesus that’s a bad looking status page lol it’s almost a rainbow
  - Foobar85684 hours ago
    Another Atlassian shit show app https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage
    verelo2 hours ago
    I mean the functionality of the page seems, acceptable? i more mean the actual outage history is wild.
throwaway892015 hours ago
I use Big-AGI [1] as selfhosted open source LLM workspace, and it's quite telling that when adding API keys for Anthropic, it presents a note inbetween reading "Experiencing Issues? Check Anthropic status" that it doesn't for any other model provider.
[1] https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI (no affiliation)
zurfer5 hours ago
https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336889
valdezm5 hours ago
Yes they are down --
/login
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Login
```
   OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded


   Press Enter to retry.

  Esc to cancel
```
mervz5 hours ago
Time for all of the cosplaying developers to sit around and twiddle their thumbs.
ridiculous_leke5 hours ago
Can people drop a good LocalLlama setup that I can run on M4?
- giancarlostoro5 hours ago
  Not sure about LocalLlama, but have you tried LMStudio? If you use Zed it will auto-pickup whatever model you enable on LMStudio. I keep meaning to write a blog post about this for people unaware that you can pair the two pretty easily on a Mac. I mostly use CC but like to test offline models now and then to see how far they've come along.
  - ridiculous_leke4 hours ago
    I use Ollama to run local models but have never used one with CC. Curious what models work best for people.
    giancarlostoro3 hours ago
    I use Zed with its Claude Code integration, and if I wanna use any other LLM I use LMStudio which is nice on the Mac, and hosts the APIs for it, Zed knows which models are available which is a plus.
skeledrew4 hours ago
Looks like I'm debugging this issue myself.
kush05056 hours ago
Experienced same... they logged me out on claude code a few minutes ago. And when I login, it makes me wait >15000ms for the auth (which exceeds their cutoff time), so auth fails!
epolanski5 hours ago
Slightly ot but I've been using OpenAI's GPT 5.4 on Codex and so far finding it more convincing than Claude with Opus 4.6 at maximum thinking for my use cases.
I'm more interested in helping with design and architecture rather than having it author tons of code.
Keep in mind that OpenAI has a way more generous tier for 20$ than Anthropic's one, and I think you can even use codex for free with the latest models, so give it a shot, you may find it better than you expected and a solid backup to Claude.
- pgm87054 hours ago
  I agree it seems better at complex work. However, I find that it often tries to make ALL work complex. I had a simple bug fix where I knew exactly what the 1-2 line fix was. GPT 5.4 added like 200 LOC and started refactoring the entire function of the app. Was the refactor possibly an improvement? Maybe, but I needed the fix quick so I stopped it and switched to Claude, which did exactly what I was expecting.
  - aroman4 hours ago
    Perfectly mirrors my own experience.
gku3 hours ago
oauth `redirect_url` points to localhost, so the login redirect hangs
- odshoifsdhfs3 hours ago
  please please please tell me this is real
  because if it is, god, I'm done with this industry. just done. I rather sell my toenail clippings for scraps of food than deal with this shitty insanity
- Lionga3 hours ago
  claude code fully vibe coded confirmed
anonfunction5 hours ago
I can't login to my subscription
xeornet5 hours ago
Auth is failing, session kicked out.
world2vec5 hours ago
Weird, it' all looks good to me. Using both Chat and Code variants without issues.
- minton5 hours ago
  Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.
eduardogarza6 hours ago
Authentication down for me
- sgt5 hours ago
  Same here.. I try to log in (via Google) and it just stops me at the "Authorize" step.
aeblyve5 hours ago
I found it absurdly slow yesterday.
Shadow-CTO4 hours ago
claude looking for that $500k salary, too
messh5 hours ago
It's down for me
Dead_Last4 hours ago
Yep same here:
OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded
Press Enter to retry.
Dead_Last4 hours ago
Same here:
OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded
Press Enter to retry.
armandososa3 hours ago
Looks like it is back.
UncleOxidant5 hours ago
seems to be.

Yup, I get:

    OAuth token has expired. Please obtain a new token or refresh your
     existing token.

And their /login page doesn't work.

claudown

Shadow-CTO4 hours ago
woohoo, break time!
benzible6 hours ago
Nope. Me too.
devadjacent5 hours ago
It's down. I hate this
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