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Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

87 points by coderbants 7mo ago

I've started getting some 401 errors on a subscription again and oauth seems to be struggling to restore the session. Is it just me?

eduardogarza 7mo ago
Authentication down for me
- sgt 7mo ago
  Same here.. I try to log in (via Google) and it just stops me at the "Authorize" step.
armandososa 7mo ago
Looks like it is back.
benzible 7mo ago
Nope. Me too.
rethab 7mo 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/ https://status.claude.com/ But downdetector is clear: https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/ https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/ /edit: there's an official incident now: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt
- buddhistdude 7mo ago
  oh about that one... we killed it unfortunately
- giancarlostoro 7mo 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 7mo ago
  vibe coded trash....
avra 7mo 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/ https://status.claude.com/
- coderbants 7mo 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 7mo ago
  Jesus that’s a bad looking status page lol it’s almost a rainbow
  - Foobar8568 7mo ago
    Another Atlassian shit show app https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage
    - verelo 7mo ago
      I mean the functionality of the page seems, acceptable? i more mean the actual outage history is wild.
- behnamoh 7mo ago
  Weird because it shows green but obviously things aren't working.
lnenad 7mo ago
It's really amazing how stability of platforms has gone down in the last year or so.
- romanhn 7mo ago
  If only this was correlated with something else going on in the industry...
- erksa 7mo 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 7mo ago
  The mass immigration probably still taking a toll.
- Ancalagon 7mo ago
  The schadenfreude is so fucking palpable
  - ramon156 7mo ago
    Weird take, will you also look sour at devs who use local LLM's in ~50 years? Or is that different
- khuedoan 7mo ago
  > 100% of our code is written by AI Yeah we can tell...
kush0505 7mo 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 7mo ago
Does anyone recall how to code manually? I certainly don't :-)
- thrill 7mo ago
  I do - but then I shudder, and go make a sandwich - which still needs me for the moment.
  - pan69 7mo ago
    What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?
    - pixl97 7mo ago
      sudo make me a sandwich
- Hamuko 7mo 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 7mo 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.
  - taylorius 7mo ago
    Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.
- siva7 7mo 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 7mo ago
It's down for me
xeornet 7mo ago
Auth is failing, session kicked out.
devadjacent 7mo ago
It's down. I hate this
UncleOxidant 7mo ago
seems to be.
world2vec 7mo ago
Weird, it' all looks good to me. Using both Chat and Code variants without issues.
- minton 7mo ago
  Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.
astatine 7mo ago
Same issue. Getting an "internal server error" message
behnamoh 7mo 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
LingoChat 7mo ago
[dead]
ridiculous_leke 7mo ago
Can people drop a good LocalLlama setup that I can run on M4?
- giancarlostoro 7mo 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 7mo ago
    I use Ollama to run local models but have never used one with CC. Curious what models work best for people.
    - giancarlostoro 7mo 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 7mo 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 https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI (no affiliation)
epolanski 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo ago
    Perfectly mirrors my own experience.
anonfunction 7mo ago
I can't login to my subscription
prmph 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo ago
I found it absurdly slow yesterday.
zurfer 7mo ago
https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336889
valdezm 7mo ago
Yes they are down -- /login ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Login OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded Press Enter to retry. Esc to cancel
deleted 7mo ago
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etiosa1 7mo ago
[dead]
etiosa1 7mo ago
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mervz 7mo ago
Time for all of the cosplaying developers to sit around and twiddle their thumbs.
Dead_Last 7mo ago
Yep same here: OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded Press Enter to retry.
Dead_Last 7mo ago
Same here: OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded Press Enter to retry.
eduardogarza 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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.
- dconsorte 7mo ago
skeledrew 7mo ago
Looks like I'm debugging this issue myself.
Shadow-CTO 7mo ago
woohoo, break time!
Shadow-CTO 7mo ago
claude looking for that $500k salary, too
gku 7mo ago
oauth `redirect_url` points to localhost, so the login redirect hangs
- odshoifsdhfs 7mo 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 7mo ago
  claude code fully vibe coded confirmed
iamsaitam 7mo ago
Login failed: Request failed with status code 500 Good times..
djohnston 7mo ago
coding is largely solved - a soundbite that will live in infamy
HPSimulator 7mo 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.
garethsprice 7mo ago
Working for me (Desktop + Code) but had a bunch of oauth issues this morning and it's been up and down like a drunken monkey on a trampoline all week, especially around start of biz times in the US. The Pentagon spat is having a hell of a Streisand Effect on them; DAUs +180% (source: SimilarWeb), paid subs doubling. If past experience is any indicator, it'll settle down as they scale up (or they fall out of the news cycle). Google Trends search interest shows the story: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=claude%2Canthropic&date=today%203-m&geo=US https://trends.google.com/explore?q=claude%2Canthropic&date=...
throwa356262 7mo ago
Maybe unrelated but Claude has not only been slow but quality has also been bad the last 3-4 days. Everything was fine last week then suddenly even the smallest tasks can't be completed correctly
evan-dong 7mo ago
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87 points by coderbants 7mo ago

I've started getting some 401 errors on a subscription again and oauth seems to be struggling to restore the session. Is it just me?

eduardogarza 7mo ago

Authentication down for me

sgt 7mo ago
Same here.. I try to log in (via Google) and it just stops me at the "Authorize" step.

armandososa 7mo ago

Looks like it is back.

benzible 7mo ago

Nope. Me too.

rethab 7mo 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/ https://status.claude.com/ But downdetector is clear: https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/ https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/ /edit: there's an official incident now: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt

buddhistdude 7mo ago
oh about that one... we killed it unfortunately
giancarlostoro 7mo 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 7mo ago
vibe coded trash....

avra 7mo 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/ https://status.claude.com/

coderbants 7mo 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 7mo ago
Jesus that’s a bad looking status page lol it’s almost a rainbow
- Foobar8568 7mo ago
  Another Atlassian shit show app https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage
  - verelo 7mo ago
    I mean the functionality of the page seems, acceptable? i more mean the actual outage history is wild.
behnamoh 7mo ago
Weird because it shows green but obviously things aren't working.

lnenad 7mo ago

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

romanhn 7mo ago
If only this was correlated with something else going on in the industry...
erksa 7mo 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 7mo ago
The mass immigration probably still taking a toll.
Ancalagon 7mo ago
The schadenfreude is so fucking palpable
- ramon156 7mo ago
  Weird take, will you also look sour at devs who use local LLM's in ~50 years? Or is that different
khuedoan 7mo ago
> 100% of our code is written by AI Yeah we can tell...

kush0505 7mo 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 7mo ago

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

thrill 7mo ago
I do - but then I shudder, and go make a sandwich - which still needs me for the moment.
- pan69 7mo ago
  What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?
  - pixl97 7mo ago
    sudo make me a sandwich
Hamuko 7mo 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 7mo 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.
- taylorius 7mo ago
  Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.
siva7 7mo 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 7mo ago

It's down for me

xeornet 7mo ago

Auth is failing, session kicked out.

devadjacent 7mo ago

It's down. I hate this

UncleOxidant 7mo ago

seems to be.

world2vec 7mo ago

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

minton 7mo ago
Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.

astatine 7mo ago

Same issue. Getting an "internal server error" message

behnamoh 7mo 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

LingoChat 7mo ago

[dead]

ridiculous_leke 7mo ago

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

giancarlostoro 7mo 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 7mo ago
  I use Ollama to run local models but have never used one with CC. Curious what models work best for people.
  - giancarlostoro 7mo 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 7mo 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 https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI (no affiliation)

epolanski 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo ago
  Perfectly mirrors my own experience.

anonfunction 7mo ago

I can't login to my subscription

prmph 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo ago

I found it absurdly slow yesterday.

zurfer 7mo ago

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

valdezm 7mo ago

Yes they are down -- /login ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Login OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded Press Enter to retry. Esc to cancel

deleted 7mo ago

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etiosa1 7mo ago

[dead]

etiosa1 7mo ago

[dead]

mervz 7mo ago

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

Dead_Last 7mo ago

Yep same here: OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded Press Enter to retry.

Dead_Last 7mo ago

Same here: OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded Press Enter to retry.

eduardogarza 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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.
dconsorte 7mo ago

skeledrew 7mo ago

Looks like I'm debugging this issue myself.

Shadow-CTO 7mo ago

woohoo, break time!

Shadow-CTO 7mo ago

claude looking for that $500k salary, too

gku 7mo ago

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

odshoifsdhfs 7mo 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 7mo ago
claude code fully vibe coded confirmed

iamsaitam 7mo ago

djohnston 7mo ago

coding is largely solved - a soundbite that will live in infamy

HPSimulator 7mo 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.

garethsprice 7mo ago

Working for me (Desktop + Code) but had a bunch of oauth issues this morning and it's been up and down like a drunken monkey on a trampoline all week, especially around start of biz times in the US. The Pentagon spat is having a hell of a Streisand Effect on them; DAUs +180% (source: SimilarWeb), paid subs doubling. If past experience is any indicator, it'll settle down as they scale up (or they fall out of the news cycle). Google Trends search interest shows the story: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=claude%2Canthropic&date=today%203-m&geo=US https://trends.google.com/explore?q=claude%2Canthropic&date=...

throwa356262 7mo ago

Maybe unrelated but Claude has not only been slow but quality has also been bad the last 3-4 days. Everything was fine last week then suddenly even the smallest tasks can't be completed correctly

evan-dong 7mo ago

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