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Claude Seems Down
Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector
- ericmay 1mo agoSeeing the same. Logging out of the desktop app and attempting to log back in just results in a reset of the authentication flow.
- walrus01 1mo agoLarge volume of user generated reports https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/ https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/
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- selbyk 1mo agoI'm sorry, but why is this on the front page with 2 up votes? Do we really need to be alerted every time the Claude API responds with an error?
- bossyTeacher 1mo agoIt's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me. It's software used by many here so of course you will hear about Claude downtime here.
- alexkkoo93 1mo agoYea bc what are we supposed to do with ourselves now.
- HDBaseT 1mo agoMost people here (myself included) are unable to produce code without an LLM doing it for us.
- curious_cat_163 1mo agoLooks like their auth is broken. Do they ever publish postmortems?
- throw1234567891 1mo agoMaybe their AI hacked their auth.
- nabeards 1mo agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324068
- 2001zhaozhao 1mo agobruh
- rvz 1mo agoClaude is taking the rest of the day off, without alerting everyone. So it seems.
- Boss0565 1mo agostill using anthropic in the big august 2026?
- gigatree 1mo agoAs opposed to what?
- alexjplant 1mo agoIf you don't have regulatory hurdles to jump over then there are a whole raft of open-weight models that perform basically as well as Anthropic's offerings (and, in many cases, better because they're pulling fewer capacity-stretching shenanigans). Check out Kimi, DeepSeek, and GLM series models in particular with something like OpenCode or Pi as a coding harness. If you need a Claude-alike web UI then spin up Open WebUI in a container and expose it via cloudflared so you can use it on the go.
- gymbeaux 1mo agoKimi and DeepSeek are impressive for their size but still run slow on any hardware you or I would have. If you’re proposing we run those via a cloud service, I don’t see a reason to do that when it’s an inferior model and I still have to pay per token for it.
- alexjplant 1mo agoOpenCode Go provides a lot of usage for these models for the paltry sum of $10/month. Z.ai's coding plan provides a single-digit multiple of Claude Code's usage for a similar price and performance level. Kimi and DeepSeek models are hundreds of billions of parameters (or, in K3's case, >1T). Many of these models have Opus-level benchmarks and, as I pointed out previously, often practically outperform Anthropic models because they're more consistent.
- throw1234567891 1mo agoYou should run the maths once. Those tokens cost you much more than the hardware would. But yeah, CAPEX vs OPEX something something.
- BoneHeadCIO 1mo agoMy bad, I asked it to do something for me that really must have blown its mind
- maxall4 1mo agoStatus page reports as down: https://status.claude.com/ https://status.claude.com/
- petcat 1mo agoUse Claude through AWS Bedrock. Never been down for me.
- MyFirstSass 1mo agoUsing it through Bedrock / API the 200$ subscription costs upwards of 6000$ a month. How do you guys afford this, huge company that grants this? Definitely not viable for my lean startup.
- fennecbutt 1mo agoVia "Endless growth" baybeeeee
- metaltyphoon 1mo agoMeanwhile using it via GCP Vertex it was down terribly for 2 days last week
- g42gregory 1mo agoThey are busy implementing text watermarks.
- GangstaAgents 1mo agoTime to write code by myself today)
- cassianoleal 1mo agoRawdog coding.
- tito 1mo agoI found out about this from my Claude Status menu bar I built last time it went down! It's invisible most of the time, unless the status goes down then a yellow or red marker appears. Improvements welcome: https://github.com/titojankowski/claude-status https://github.com/titojankowski/claude-status
- gymbeaux 1mo agoWe’re in the phase of society where we will just build something like this ourselves using an LLM and it will be built exactly how we want it and we don’t have to worry about malicious code or forking it and hoping the owner will merge our PR… it’s sad but that’s where we are for anything the size of a menu bar that pings a URL every minute.
- tito 1mo agoyeah totally! some version of "summarize what this tool does at a high level and then build my own but don't use any of the code" perhaps.
- soundworlds 1mo agoYeap, all Oauth sessions got kicked and can't get back in. Welp, switching to Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 via OpenRouter. Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!
- amelius 1mo agoI asked my OpenClaw agent to build me a Dyson sphere.
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- powvans 1mo agoClaude, build Kardashev Type III power harnessing. Make no mistakes.
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- mr_bob_sacamano 1mo agooh no, now we have to activate our brains without generate tons of CO2! Ahhhhh...It's really unfair!
- jatora 1mo agoDo you have any idea how much CO₂ it takes to support the food/lifestyle of a median civilian in a first world country? Lol. AI is a drop in the bucket CO₂-wise
- cryo32 1mo agoCommence dribbling into the keyboard!
- gentooflux 1mo agoMaybe get him something nice to cheer him up
- fennecbutt 1mo agoTo party? Awesome.
- jatora 1mo agoAs usual with these posts (here and on reddit), the outage is over within 5-10 minutes. Makes you wonder what power these have over the minds of SWE's who rush to scream immediately when their tool stop working.
- bmitc 1mo agoA tool is a tool. Our companies are shelling out millions of dollars to these companies. How many of us sometimes spend our days just hopping between the tools that are actually working at the moment?
- Bender 1mo agoThe past couple of days I have noticed a presentation layer bug, probably due to getting overwhelmed that causes my session to get all dorked up technical term. Claude itself never goes down and is always waiting for my response. Not sure if it matters but I only use the Sonnet model. I've never had any issues logging in. Perhaps they have anycast [1] regional web proxies? [1] - https://bgp.tools/as/399358 https://bgp.tools/as/399358
- hackpit 1mo agoIf we must die, O let us nobly die.” Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” (1919)