alt.hn

2/3/2026 at 3:48:03 PM

Anthropic is Down

 https://updog.ai/status/anthropic

by ersiees

2/3/2026 at 4:04:29 PM

The 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!

by davedx

2/3/2026 at 4:06:55 PM

It’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.

by shermantanktop

2/3/2026 at 4:26:11 PM

Which is exactly why these companies are now all focused on building products rather than (or alongside) improving their base models. Claude Code, Cowork, Gemini CLI/Antigravity, Codex - all proprietary and don't allow model swapping (or do with heavy restrictions). As models get more and more commoditized the idea is to enforce lock-in at the app level instead.

by paxys

2/3/2026 at 4:36:16 PM

FWIW, OpenAI Codex is open source and they help other open source projects like OpenCode to integrate their accounts (not just expensive API), unlike Anthropic who blocked it last month and force people to use their closed source CLI.

by alecco

2/3/2026 at 5:02:47 PM

Gemini CLI is open source too, though I think the consensus is it's a distant third behind Claude Code and Codex

by gundmc

2/3/2026 at 4:55:48 PM

The classic commoditize your complements.

by _aavaa_

2/3/2026 at 4:38:22 PM

I only integrate with models via MCP. I highly encourage everybody to do the same to preserve the commodity status

by bloppe

2/3/2026 at 4:30:05 PM

Using "low cost" and LLM's in the same sentence is kind of funny to me.

by LetsGetTechnicl

2/3/2026 at 5:24:32 PM

The switching cost is so low that I find it's easier and better value to have two $20/mo subscription from different providers than a $200/mo subscription with the frontier model of the month. Reliability and model diversity are a bonus.

by bgirard

2/3/2026 at 5:15:07 PM

I genuinely don't know how any of these companies can make extreme profit for this reason. If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor?

Google succeeded because it understood the web better than its competitors. I don't see how any of the players in this space could be so much better that they could take over the market. It seems like these companies will create commodities, which can be profitable, but also incredibly risky for early investors and don't make the profits that would be necessary to justify the evaluations of today.

by harrisi

2/3/2026 at 5:20:26 PM

> If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor?

No. Not if it's not trained on any materials that reveal the secret sauce on why it's better.

LLM's don't possess introspection into their own training process or architecture.

by crazygringo

2/3/2026 at 5:58:37 PM

That's my point. Anything that could exist that's significantly "better" would be able to share more about its creation. And anything that could be significantly better would have to be capable of "understanding" things it wasn't trained on.

by harrisi

2/3/2026 at 7:03:26 PM

That's not true. There are a million ways to be "significantly better" that don't involve knowledge about the model's creation. It can be 10x or 100x or 1000x more accurate at coding, for example, without knowing a single thing more about its own internal training methodology.

by crazygringo

2/3/2026 at 4:18:24 PM

> 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.

by skydhash

2/3/2026 at 4:27:21 PM

Switching between vim <-> emacs <-> IDEs is way harder than swapping a USB (unless you already know how to use them).

by pchristensen

2/4/2026 at 3:07:57 AM

I don't know, USB A takes 3 attempts to plug in for some reason.

by cozzyd

2/4/2026 at 3:36:03 AM

Sometimes four!

by bmitc

2/3/2026 at 4:33:08 PM

good point, they are standards, by definition society forced vendors to behave and play nice together. LLMs are not standards yet, and it is just pure bliss that english works fine across different LLMs for now. Some labs are trying to push their own format and stop it. Specially around reasoning traces, e.g. codex removing reasoning traces between calls and gemini requiring reasoning history. So don't take this for granted.

by ahmadyan

2/3/2026 at 5:22:37 PM

I dunno. Text is a pretty good de facto standard. And they work in lots of languages, not just English.

by crazygringo

2/3/2026 at 4:57:47 PM

You make it sound like lock-in doesn't exist. But your examples are cherry picked. And they're all standards anyway, their _purpose_ was for easy switching between implementations.

by amelius

2/3/2026 at 4:27:31 PM

Most 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.

by NicuCalcea

2/3/2026 at 5:20:54 PM

> Most people only have one mouse

Tell me you're not a Mac user without telling me you're not a Mac user...

by oneeyedpigeon

2/3/2026 at 6:55:37 PM

Thankfully, not a Mac user, or even a wireless mouse user.

by NicuCalcea

2/3/2026 at 5:23:02 PM

Huh?

by crazygringo

2/3/2026 at 5:27:18 PM

The default Apple mouse needs a backup because it still cannot be charged and used at the same time.

by oneeyedpigeon

2/3/2026 at 4:38:51 PM

I mean sublime died overnight when vscode showed up.

by whatever1

2/3/2026 at 5:38:16 PM

on some agents you just switch the model and carry on.

by falloutx

2/3/2026 at 6:24:00 PM

Except Kimi Agent via website is hard to replace - I tried the same task in Claude Code, Codex, and Kimi Agent - the results for office tasks are incomparable. The versions from Anthropic and OpenAI are far behind.

by benterix

2/3/2026 at 3:56:06 PM

Their 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

by hk__2

2/3/2026 at 4:03:29 PM

Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.

by phito

2/3/2026 at 4:40:56 PM

This sounds like a case of a bias called availability heuristic. It'd be worth remembering that you often don't notice people who are polite and normal nearly as much as people who are rude and obnoxious.

by stevenpetryk

2/3/2026 at 4:14:40 PM

Could it be that you're creating a stereotype in your head and getting angry about it?

People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.

by egeozcan

2/3/2026 at 4:17:32 PM

Well not really, vibe coding is literally brute forcing things until it works, not caring about the details of it.

by phito

2/3/2026 at 5:25:38 PM

So manual programming. Humans don't always get everything perfect the first try either.

by charcircuit

2/3/2026 at 4:57:56 PM

if history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes

does vibe coding rhyme with eternal september?

by qbxk

2/3/2026 at 4:11:03 PM

I am starting to get concerned about how much “move fast break things” has basically become the average person’s mantra in the US. Or at least it feels that way.

by Forgeties79

2/3/2026 at 4:25:22 PM

You're about a decade+ late to the party, this isn't some movement that happened overnight, it's a slow cultural shift that been happening for quite some time already. Quality and stability used to be valued, judging by what most people and companies put out today, they seem to be focusing on quantity and "seeing what sticks" today instead.

by embedding-shape

2/3/2026 at 4:28:57 PM

I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing, I think I’m just really seeing the results of the past decade clearly and frequently. LLM usage philosophies really highlight it.

by Forgeties79

2/3/2026 at 7:05:49 PM

> I’m not saying it’s a sudden/brand new thing

I was more referencing the whole "I'm starting to worry" while plenty of people been cautiously observing from the side-lines all the trouble "move fast, break things" brought forward, many of them speaking up at the time too.

It's been pretty evident for quite some time, even back in 2016 Facebook was used by the military to incite genocide in Myanmar, yet people were still not really picking up the clues... That's a whole decade ago, times were different, yet things seems the same, that's fucking depressing.

by embedding-shape

2/3/2026 at 10:58:06 PM

Particularly since that mantra started around 2005 or so, which was exactly when Silicon Valley stopped creating companies that could run at a profit without a constant investor firehose.

by bandrami

2/3/2026 at 5:40:55 PM

IF anything, this is good news for Anthropic, they can now bury every open source project with useless isssues and PRs

by falloutx

2/3/2026 at 4:21:36 PM

Are these superpredator vibe coders in the room with us right now?

by soulofmischief

2/3/2026 at 4:02:02 PM

Wow 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...)

by monsieurbanana

2/3/2026 at 4:08:56 PM

Scanning a few. Some are definitely written by AI but most seem genuinely human (or at least, not claude).

Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.

by tobyjsullivan

2/3/2026 at 4:27:26 PM

I consider revealing my file structure and file paths to be PII so naturally seeing people's comfort with putting all that up there makes me queasy.

by prodigycorp

2/3/2026 at 4:49:38 PM

I think claude code has a /bug command which auto-fills those details in a github report.

by xnorswap

2/3/2026 at 4:04:35 PM

Definitively 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.

by embedding-shape

2/3/2026 at 4:04:25 PM

No, but they are submitted by the sort of people who will use AI to write the GitHub issue details

by philipwhiuk

2/3/2026 at 4:17:08 PM

How could they be? Claude was down

by petters

2/3/2026 at 4:15:30 PM

and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"

by jscheel

2/3/2026 at 4:41:17 PM

A long time ago I was taking flight lessons and I was going through the takeoff checklist. I was going through each item, but my instructor had to remind me that I am not just reading the checklist - I need understand/verify each checklist item before moving on. Always stuck with me.

by david422

2/3/2026 at 4:58:43 PM

A few times a year I have to remind my co-workers that reading & understanding error messages is a critical part of being in the IT business. I'm not perfect in that regard, but the number of times the error message explaining exactly what's wrong and how to solve it is included in the screenshot they share is a little depressing.

by macintux

2/3/2026 at 5:12:01 PM

Application Error:

The exception illegal instruction

An attempt was made to execute an illegal instruction.

(0xc000001d) occurred in the application at location.

Click on OK to terminate the program.

by delaminator

2/3/2026 at 5:00:45 PM

Some of them don't even have error messages.

by kogasa240p

2/3/2026 at 4:39:39 PM

It's wild that people check the box

> I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet

when the first 50 issues are about 500 error.

by ebonnafoux

2/3/2026 at 3:57:36 PM

This 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.

by atonse

2/3/2026 at 4:10:50 PM

I'm not too empathic to Anthropic. They did it to themselves by hyping AI and attracting that kind of people.

And it's not like they have been taking care of issues anyway.

by orphea

2/3/2026 at 4:02:10 PM

The automation of the SWE.

by echelon

2/3/2026 at 4:01:17 PM

should enable some kind of agent automation

by ddmma

2/3/2026 at 4:11:03 PM

There has to be some sort of automation making these issues, to many of them are identical but posted by different people.

Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.

Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )

by nerdjon

2/3/2026 at 4:28:34 PM

I've made a feature request there to add another GitHub Actions bot to auto-close issues reporting errors like this when an outage is happening. Would definitely help to cut through the noise.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22848

by nhubbard

2/3/2026 at 4:35:36 PM

That's what happens when people outsource their mental capacity to a machine

by LetsGetTechnicl

2/3/2026 at 4:12:02 PM

Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no humans allowed!

by cing

2/3/2026 at 4:51:57 PM

Goes to show that nobody reads error messages and it reminds me of this old blogpost:

> A kid knocks on my office door, complaining that he can't login. 'Have you forgotten your password?' I ask, but he insists he hasn't. 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don't have time to read the message. He repeats this process three times, as if the computer will suddenly change its mind and allow him access to the network. On his third attempt I manage to get a glimpse of the message. I reach behind his computer and plug in the Ethernet cable. He can't use a computer.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...

by kogasa240p

2/3/2026 at 4:44:18 PM

Couldn't have happened to a better Repo, I needed that chuckle.

by hacker_homie

2/3/2026 at 5:39:57 PM

Thats exactly what they Anthropic deserves (btw they cant even get Anthropic on github lmao, this must be the biggest company having to run with wrong ID on github)

by falloutx

2/3/2026 at 4:56:30 PM

Hey 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

by palcu

2/3/2026 at 4:11:07 PM

If this overly impacts you as an "engineer" beyond "oh thats minorly annoying i'll go do it another way" please do some soul searching.

by acedTrex

2/3/2026 at 5:53:53 PM

I’m sure there are plenty of tools you rely on as an “engineer” as well

by shepherdjerred

2/3/2026 at 11:24:06 PM

And none of them demand my retirement funds to continue existence

by ares623

2/3/2026 at 5:53:36 PM

Code quality increased.

by falloutx

2/3/2026 at 5:15:26 PM

OR just take some time off from the grind to enjoy your life.

by couchdb_ouchdb

2/3/2026 at 4:03:15 PM

For 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 :)

by embedding-shape

2/3/2026 at 3:53:47 PM

I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.

by jwr

2/3/2026 at 3:59:19 PM

As 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.

by sjm-lbm

2/3/2026 at 3:56:29 PM

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.

by seaal

2/3/2026 at 3:58:32 PM

It took them about 15 minutes to update that page

by wild_egg

2/3/2026 at 3:59:49 PM

It 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.

by jMyles

2/3/2026 at 4:06:14 PM

Big 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?

by emsign

2/3/2026 at 4:10:20 PM

Aren't most developers accessing Anthropic's models via vscode/github? It takes seconds to switch to a different model. Today I'm using Gemini.

by rowanseymour

2/3/2026 at 5:02:31 PM

The 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.

by kogasa240p

2/3/2026 at 3:52:10 PM

Both the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the rumored Sonnet 5 release

by yoavsha1

2/3/2026 at 3:53:02 PM

That will be one strange way to release a model.

by eleventhborn

2/3/2026 at 3:53:38 PM

I 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

by yoavsha1

2/3/2026 at 3:55:19 PM

This 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? ;)

by nicpottier

2/3/2026 at 3:54:28 PM

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by copilot_king

2/3/2026 at 3:54:20 PM

it is not, sounds like an issue with AWS

by kachapopopow

2/3/2026 at 3:55:49 PM

OpenClaw agents on Anthropic API taking an unscheduled coffee break.

by 8cvor6j844qw_d6

2/3/2026 at 5:01:33 PM

Anthropic 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.

by cirrusfan

2/3/2026 at 5:54:36 PM

Because 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.

by falloutx

2/3/2026 at 4:05:06 PM

I'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.

by cainxinth

2/3/2026 at 5:51:23 PM

Even 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

by Alxc1

2/3/2026 at 3:57:34 PM

Claude Code seems to be back up

by dysoco

2/3/2026 at 4:00:26 PM

i just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet

by tankenmate

2/3/2026 at 4:01:54 PM

is back online

by ddmma

2/3/2026 at 3:53:48 PM

Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.

-edit- CC is back up on my machine

by world2vec

2/3/2026 at 4:21:46 PM

Was 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.

by paxys

2/3/2026 at 3:56:07 PM

I was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.

by xd1936

2/3/2026 at 4:12:45 PM

What’s updog?

by ralusek

2/4/2026 at 12:35:49 AM

I had to scroll way too far for this. Thank you for your service.

by magic-amoeba

2/3/2026 at 4:39:09 PM

Not much, what's up with you?

by ukuina

2/3/2026 at 4:29:05 PM

Not much. Anthropic was down. What's up with you?

by testycool

2/3/2026 at 4:46:01 PM

We need an updated XKCD comic where they are sword fighting but instead of “compiling” its “Anthropic is down”.

by VladVladikoff

2/3/2026 at 4:02:20 PM

Probably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)

by deanc

2/3/2026 at 4:23:09 PM

No big deal for people who know how to do their job.

by faefox

2/3/2026 at 4:41:22 PM

Unless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an Anthropic model.

by tankenmate

2/3/2026 at 9:36:33 PM

Yeah 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.

by bastard_op

2/3/2026 at 4:08:39 PM

Status page reports it's back up

by yodon

2/3/2026 at 4:13:20 PM

Signal too

by gsibble

2/3/2026 at 4:48:44 PM

What's updog?

by abrinz

2/3/2026 at 4:49:56 PM

Not much, what’s up with you?

by zhoujianfu

2/3/2026 at 4:50:17 PM

Yup. SOS

by jackinthehat

2/3/2026 at 4:28:46 PM

Seems like a wider issue. Signal is down too, youtube seems to be struggling. Here we go again...

by StingyJelly

2/3/2026 at 4:01:45 PM

its up !

by Jgoauh

2/3/2026 at 5:10:45 PM

What 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.

by EngineerUSA

2/3/2026 at 11:27:44 PM

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by ath3nd

2/3/2026 at 4:05:59 PM

[dead]

by musak_kreatr

2/3/2026 at 3:51:56 PM

[dead]

by copilot_king

2/3/2026 at 4:11:13 PM

[flagged]

by Rahmer

2/3/2026 at 3:54:19 PM

Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.

by peter422

2/3/2026 at 3:56:33 PM

I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours

by hackeman300

2/3/2026 at 3:55:44 PM

Ah yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the priority for a globally distributed company.

by esskay

2/3/2026 at 3:56:52 PM

HN users assuming the US are the only country in the World, episode #53985902582.

by hk__2

2/3/2026 at 3:59:04 PM

Only 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!).

by atonse

2/3/2026 at 4:02:21 PM

We all have a chuckle when AWS east is down.

by throwup238

2/3/2026 at 4:14:19 PM

Yikes man.

by gsibble

2/3/2026 at 3:58:14 PM

Just a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.

by mike-cardwell

2/3/2026 at 4:06:11 PM

Everybody 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.

by bergheim

2/3/2026 at 4:12:00 PM

The 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.

by zamadatix

2/3/2026 at 4:37:37 PM

This is a good take. You are right, they rarely do report actual status.

And yes, it probably should have been :)

by bergheim

2/3/2026 at 4:16:35 PM

Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.

A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.

Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.

This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.

by nerdjon

2/3/2026 at 4:31:45 PM

I wasn't using it. I was just on hn. And yes, it is the same about all of these services of course, which was my point.

Not sure how "nothing to do with being a large service" and then you bring up Azure and AWS matches though, but fair enough.

Now I know you guys care, so fair game.

by bergheim

2/3/2026 at 4:08:15 PM

It’s more about the ensuing discussion.

by zenexer

2/3/2026 at 4:08:23 PM

I 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.

by emsign

2/3/2026 at 4:10:41 PM

Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?

by romanovcode

2/3/2026 at 4:12:14 PM

Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down

So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?

It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes

by thehamkercat

2/3/2026 at 4:32:20 PM

Fair enough!

by bergheim