Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

72 points by coderbants 5 hours ago on hackernews | 65 comments

Nope. Me too.

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

: buddhistdude | 4 hours ago
oh about that one... we killed it unfortunately
: giancarlostoro | 3 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.
: Lionga | an hour ago
vibe coded trash....

eduardogarza | 5 hours ago

Authentication down for me

: sgt | 4 hours ago
Same here.. I try to log in (via Google) and it just stops me at the "Authorize" step.

avra | 4 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/

[OP] coderbants | 4 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!)

verelo | 4 hours ago

Jesus that’s a bad looking status page lol it’s almost a rainbow

Foobar8568 | 2 hours ago

Another Atlassian shit show app https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage

: verelo | an hour ago
I mean the functionality of the page seems, acceptable? i more mean the actual outage history is wild.

behnamoh | 4 hours ago

Weird because it shows green but obviously things aren't working.

lnenad | 4 hours ago

It's really amazing how stability of platforms has gone down in the last year or so.

romanhn | 4 hours ago

If only this was correlated with something else going on in the industry...

erksa | 3 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".

skeledrew | 3 hours ago

The mass immigration probably still taking a toll.

Ancalagon | an hour ago

The schadenfreude is so fucking palpable

: ramon156 | 38 minutes ago
Weird take, will you also look sour at devs who use local LLM's in ~50 years? Or is that different

kush0505 | 4 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!

izolate | 4 hours ago

Does anyone recall how to code manually? I certainly don't :-)

thrill | 4 hours ago

I do - but then I shudder, and go make a sandwich - which still needs me for the moment.

pan69 | 36 minutes ago

What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?

: pixl97 | 18 minutes ago
sudo make me a sandwich

Hamuko | 4 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.

behnamoh | 4 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.

siva7 | 3 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.

messh | 4 hours ago

It's down for me

xeornet | 4 hours ago

Auth is failing, session kicked out.

devadjacent | 4 hours ago

It's down. I hate this

UncleOxidant | 4 hours ago

seems to be.

world2vec | 4 hours ago

Weird, it' all looks good to me. Using both Chat and Code variants without issues.

: minton | 4 hours ago
Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.

astatine | 4 hours ago

Same issue. Getting an "internal server error" message

behnamoh | 4 hours ago

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

ridiculous_leke | 3 hours ago

Can people drop a good LocalLlama setup that I can run on M4?

giancarlostoro | 3 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_leke | 3 hours ago

I use Ollama to run local models but have never used one with CC. Curious what models work best for people.

: giancarlostoro | 2 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.

throwaway89201 | 3 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)

epolanski | 3 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.

pgm8705 | 3 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.

: aroman | 3 hours ago
Perfectly mirrors my own experience.

anonfunction | 3 hours ago

I can't login to my subscription

prmph | 3 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.

bartread | 3 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.

aeblyve | 3 hours ago

I found it absurdly slow yesterday.

zurfer | 3 hours ago

https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336889

valdezm | 3 hours ago

Yes they are down --

/login

───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Login

   OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded


   Press Enter to retry.

  Esc to cancel

mervz | 3 hours ago

Time for all of the cosplaying developers to sit around and twiddle their thumbs.

Dead_Last | 3 hours ago

Yep same here:

OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded

Press Enter to retry.

Dead_Last | 3 hours ago

Same here:

OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded

Press Enter to retry.

eduardogarza | 3 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"?

: jcfrei | 3 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.
: aix1 | 3 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.
: Ocerge | an hour 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.
: mrguyorama | 12 minutes 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.

skeledrew | 3 hours ago

Looks like I'm debugging this issue myself.

Shadow-CTO | 3 hours ago

woohoo, break time!

Shadow-CTO | 3 hours ago

claude looking for that $500k salary, too

gku | 2 hours ago

oauth `redirect_url` points to localhost, so the login redirect hangs

: odshoifsdhfs | 2 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
: Lionga | 2 hours ago
claude code fully vibe coded confirmed

iamsaitam | 2 hours ago

Good times..

armandososa | 2 hours ago

Looks like it is back.