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Anthropic is Down
- copilot_king 8mo ago[dead]
- yoavsha1 8mo agoBoth the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the rumored Sonnet 5 release
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo agoOpenClaw agents on Anthropic API taking an unscheduled coffee break.
- eleventhborn 8mo agoThat will be one strange way to release a model.
- yoavsha1 8mo agoI mean, can you expect a vibecoding company to do stuff with 0 downtime? They brought the models down and are now panicking at HQ since there's no one to bring them back up
- copilot_king 8mo ago[dead]
- nicpottier 8mo agoThis made me laugh only because I imagine there could possibly be some truth to it. This is the world we are in. Maybe they all loaded codex to fix their deploy? ;)
- kachapopopow 8mo agoit is not, sounds like an issue with AWS
- jsnell 8mo agoStatus page: https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172 https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172
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- jwr 8mo agoI find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.
- seaal 8mo agohttps://status.claude.com/ https://status.claude.com/ what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.
- wild_egg 8mo agoIt took them about 15 minutes to update that page
- jMyles 8mo agoIt appeared there like 5 minutes ago; it was down for at least 20 before that. That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system and network configs, etc. It's not a huge deal, but for $200/month it'd be nice if, after the first two-thousand 500s went out (which I imagine is less than 10 seconds), the status page automatically went orange.
- jwr 8mo agoIt was longer than 10 minutes, I'd say 15-20 minutes this time. They should be much quicker, I would expect <5 minutes.
- sjm-lbm 8mo agoAs best as I can tell, there was less than 10 minutes from the last successful request I made and when the downtime was added to their status page - and I'm not particularly crazy with my usage or anything, the gap could have been less than that. Honestly, that seems okay to me. Certainly better than what AWS usually does.
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- world2vec 8mo agoTheir website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500. -edit- CC is back up on my machine
- peter422 8mo agoFortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.
- esskay 8mo agoAh yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the priority for a globally distributed company.
- hk__2 8mo agoHN users assuming the US are the only country in the World, episode #53985902582.
- atonse 8mo agoOnly one half of the US :) Us east coasters here are having a chuckle (what else can we do? we can't get work done while Claude is down... I'll be damned if I have to type in code letter by letter ever again!).
- throwup238 8mo agoWe all have a chuckle when AWS east is down.
- hackeman300 8mo agoI hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours
- mike-cardwell 8mo agoJust a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.
- gsibble 8mo agoYikes man.
- hk__2 8mo agoTheir GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
- atonse 8mo agoThis is the kind of abuse that will cause them to just close GitHub issues. Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.
- monsieurbanana 8mo agoWow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)
- embedding-shape 8mo agoDefinitively some automation involved, no way the typical user of Claude Code (no offense) would by default put so much details into reporting an issue, especially users who don't seem to understand it's Anthropic's backend that is the issue (given the status code) rather than the client/harness.
- xd1936 8mo agoI was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.
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- dysoco 8mo agoClaude Code seems to be back up
- tankenmate 8mo agoi just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet
- ddmma 8mo agois back online
- cainxinth 8mo agoI've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.
- Jgoauh 8mo agoits up !
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- davedx 8mo agoThe great thing about LLMs being more or less commoditized is switching is so easy. I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going. It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!
- shermantanktop 8mo agoIt’s not a moat, it’s a tiny groove on the sidewalk. I’ve experienced the same. Even guide markdown files that work well for one model or vendor will work reasonably well for the other.
- skydhash 8mo ago> It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology! Look harder. Swapping usb devices (mouse,…) takes even less time. Switching wifi is also easy. Switching browser works the same. I can equally use vim/emacs/vscode/sublime/… for programming.
- NicuCalcea 8mo agoMost people only have one mouse or Wi-Fi network. If my Wi-Fi goes down, my only other option is to use a mobile hotspot, which is inferior in almost every way.
- oneeyedpigeon 8mo ago> Most people only have one mouse Tell me you're not a Mac user without telling me you're not a Mac user...
- crazygringo 8mo agoHuh?
- oneeyedpigeon 8mo ago
- deanc 8mo agoProbably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)
- embedding-shape 8mo agoFor folks who have latest version (0.4.1) LM Studio installed, I just noticed they added endpoints for being compatible with Claude Code, maybe this is an excellent moment to play around with local models, if you have the GPU for it. zai-org/glm-4.7-flash (Q4) is supposed to be OK-ish, and should fit within 24GB VRAM. It's not great, but always fun to experiment, and if the API stays down, you have some time to waste :)
- musak_kreatr 8mo ago[dead]
- bergheim 8mo agoEverybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab. It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular. I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts? To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
- zenexer 8mo agoIt’s more about the ensuing discussion.
- emsign 8mo agoI don't use it but I'd like to know even if it's just entertainment value. But I can imgine people who intend to use it learn something from it: redundancy must be part of their strategy like you said.
- romanovcode 8mo agoCompletely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?
- zamadatix 8mo agoThe usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons. The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.
- bergheim 8mo agoThis is a good take. You are right, they rarely do report actual status. And yes, it probably should have been :)
- emsign 8mo agoBig models are single points of failure. I don't want to rely on those for my business, security, wealth, health and governance. Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again? What makes them forget or blind to the obvious pitfalls?
- rowanseymour 8mo agoAren't most developers accessing Anthropic's models via vscode/github? It takes seconds to switch to a different model. Today I'm using Gemini.
- kogasa240p 8mo agoThe entire AI hype was started because Silicon Valley wanted a new SaaS product to keep themselves afloat, notice that LLMs started getting pushed right after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.
- kaelandt 8mo agoNow people are opening issues and LLMs are responding in completely nonsensical ways, nice one https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22843 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22843
- yodon 8mo agoStatus page reports it's back up
- acedTrex 8mo agoIf this overly impacts you as an "engineer" beyond "oh thats minorly annoying i'll go do it another way" please do some soul searching.
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- couchdb_ouchdb 8mo agoOR just take some time off from the grind to enjoy your life.
- falloutx 8mo agoCode quality increased.
- shepherdjerred 8mo agoI’m sure there are plenty of tools you rely on as an “engineer” as well
- ares623 8mo agoAnd none of them demand my retirement funds to continue existence
- Rahmer 8mo ago[flagged]
- ralusek 8mo agoWhat’s updog?
- testycool 8mo agoNot much. Anthropic was down. What's up with you?
- ukuina 8mo agoNot much, what's up with you?
- magic-amoeba 8mo agoI had to scroll way too far for this. Thank you for your service.
- gsibble 8mo agoSignal too
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- paxys 8mo agoWas getting 500 errors from Claude Code this morning but their status page was green. So frustrating that these pages aren't automated, especially considering there are paying users affected.
- faefox 8mo agoNo big deal for people who know how to do their job.
- tankenmate 8mo agoUnless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an Anthropic model.
- StingyJelly 8mo agoSeems like a wider issue. Signal is down too, youtube seems to be struggling. Here we go again...
- VladVladikoff 8mo agoWe need an updated XKCD comic where they are sword fighting but instead of “compiling” its “Anthropic is down”.
- abrinz 8mo agoWhat's updog?
- zhoujianfu 8mo agoNot much, what’s up with you?
- jackinthehat 8mo agoYup. SOS
- palcu 8mo agoHey folks, I’m Alex from the reliability team at Anthropic. We’re sorry for the downtime and we’ve posted a mini retrospective on our status page. We’re also be doing a more in depth retrospective in the following days. https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172 https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172
- cirrusfan 8mo agoAnthropic might have the best product for coding but good god the experience is awful. Random limits where you _know_ you shouldn’t hit them yet, the jankiness of their client, the service being down semi-frequently. Feels like the whole infra is built on a house of cards and badly struggles 70% of the time. I think my $20 openai sub gets me more tokens than claude’s $100. I can’t wait until google or openai overtake them.
- somewhereoutth 8mo agoIn other news: https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthropic-and-openai-is-now-ai-written-boris-cherny-roon/ https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthro...
- falloutx 8mo agoBecause they update it everyday and the team has not heard about something called stability. This is direct result of Move fast and break too many things all at once.
- EngineerUSA 8mo agoWhat does Down mean in this context? I imagine running inference on any server suffices. Just rent AWS since Amazon owns it anyways and keep Claude running.
- Alxc1 8mo agoEven when Claude isn't down on status indicator. I get issues with Claude all the time being very slow where it is basically down. I have to kill the request and then restart it. I wonder if it has to do with being on Pro plan. I rarely had this issue when I was on Max
- bastard_op 8mo agoYeah using Claude-Desktop is broken current, all my mcp tool calls keep failing and retrying, then it'll work for a bit, and stop again. In just retrying in an Opus chat in desktop to make it finish doing what I started it's wasted 35% of my Pro hourly quota. This is why I stopped paying for Max until they fix this shit.
- ath3nd 8mo ago[dead]
- Aaditya4u 8mo agoIt is giving new error, even in fresh chat exceeded max block every 2 mins.