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Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

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?

86 points by coderbants | 2 days ago | 72 comments

rethab - 2 days 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

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giancarlostoro - 2 days 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.

buddhistdude - 2 days ago

oh about that one... we killed it unfortunately

Lionga - 2 days ago

vibe coded trash....

izolate - 2 days ago

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

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thrill - 2 days ago

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

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pan69 - 2 days ago

What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?

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pixl97 - 2 days ago

sudo make me a sandwich

Hamuko - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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.

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taylorius - 2 days ago

Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.

siva7 - 2 days ago

I also don't recall what i'm going to do tomorrow as busy as i am. That's what calendars are for.

lnenad - 2 days ago

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

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romanhn - 2 days ago

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

erksa - 2 days 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".

khuedoan - 2 days ago

> 100% of our code is written by AI

Yeah we can tell...

Ancalagon - 2 days ago

The schadenfreude is so fucking palpable

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ramon156 - 2 days ago

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

skeledrew - 2 days ago

The mass immigration probably still taking a toll.

eduardogarza - 2 days 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"?

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dconsorte - 7 minutes ago

They probably use every ounce of compute available, all at once, because demand > supply. So, there's no fallback mechanism.

aix1 - 2 days 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.

jcfrei - 2 days 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.

Ocerge - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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.

bartread - 2 days 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.

garethsprice - 2 days 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=...

valdezm - 2 days ago

Yes they are down --

/login

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

   OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded


   Press Enter to retry.

  Esc to cancel

HPSimulator - 2 days 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.

avra - 2 days 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/

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coderbants - 2 days 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!)

behnamoh - 2 days ago

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

verelo - 2 days ago

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

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Foobar8568 - 2 days ago

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

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verelo - 2 days ago

I mean the functionality of the page seems, acceptable? i more mean the actual outage history is wild.

astatine - 2 days ago

Same issue. Getting an "internal server error" message

throwaway89201 - 2 days 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)

iamsaitam - 2 days ago

Good times..

zurfer - 2 days ago

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

mervz - 2 days ago

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

prmph - 2 days 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.

throwa356262 - 2 days 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

kush0505 - 2 days 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!

ridiculous_leke - 2 days ago

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

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giancarlostoro - 2 days 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.

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ridiculous_leke - 2 days ago

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

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giancarlostoro - 2 days 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.

epolanski - 2 days 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.

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pgm8705 - 2 days 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.

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aroman - 2 days ago

Perfectly mirrors my own experience.

skeledrew - 2 days ago

Looks like I'm debugging this issue myself.

Dead_Last - 2 days ago

Same here:

OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded

Press Enter to retry.

anonfunction - 2 days ago

I can't login to my subscription

xeornet - 2 days ago

Auth is failing, session kicked out.

world2vec - 2 days ago

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

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minton - 2 days ago

Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.

gku - 2 days ago

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

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Lionga - 2 days ago

claude code fully vibe coded confirmed

odshoifsdhfs - 2 days 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

eduardogarza - 2 days ago

Authentication down for me

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sgt - 2 days ago

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

behnamoh - 2 days 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

Dead_Last - 2 days ago

Yep same here:

OAuth error: timeout of 15000ms exceeded

Press Enter to retry.

aeblyve - 2 days ago

I found it absurdly slow yesterday.

djohnston - 2 days ago

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

messh - 2 days ago

It's down for me

Shadow-CTO - 2 days ago

claude looking for that $500k salary, too

armandososa - 2 days ago

Looks like it is back.

UncleOxidant - 2 days ago

seems to be.

Shadow-CTO - 2 days ago

woohoo, break time!

benzible - 2 days ago

Nope. Me too.

devadjacent - 2 days ago

It's down. I hate this

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