alt Hacker NewsAnthropic is Down
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Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute.
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.
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.
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 :)
I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.
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?
Both the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the rumored Sonnet 5 release
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.
Status page: https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172
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.
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
Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.
-edit- CC is back up on my machine
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.
I was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.
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.
We need an updated XKCD comic where they are sword fighting but instead of “compiling” its “Anthropic is down”.
Probably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)
Status page reports it's back up
Signal too
Now people are opening issues and LLMs are responding in completely nonsensical ways, nice one https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22843
Yup. SOS
Seems like a wider issue. Signal is down too, youtube seems to be struggling. Here we go again...
its up !
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.
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Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.
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.
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!