[HN Gopher] US Government Uptime Monitor
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US Government Uptime Monitor
Author : exr0n
Score : 152 points
Date : 2025-10-19 19:16 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (usa-status.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (usa-status.com)
| bradtheappguy wrote:
| two nines
| scrollaway wrote:
| Should've listened to Herman Cain :)
| jakozaur wrote:
| (Tech) Debt seems to be a frequent cause of (Tech) outages.
| port3000 wrote:
| Love it. However if this were realistic, it would say Partial
| outage so as to not trigger the SLAs
| candiddevmike wrote:
| Sorry for the inconvenience, we're currently pausing some
| services to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
| 0xblinq wrote:
| Where's the up time monitor for this site? It seems to be down.
| cyberax wrote:
| "Have you tried turning it off and on?"
| pizlonator wrote:
| Yeah but like this isn't funny anymore guys
| slater wrote:
| i'd say go tell the felon(s) in the white house, but they're
| currently busy having a gold-encrusted ball room built
| hypeatei wrote:
| And scheduling a call between Indonesia's President and Eric
| Trump[0].
|
| > In a private exchange picked up by microphones, the
| Indonesian leader asked to meet Eric Trump, to which the
| president answered, "I'll have Eric call you,"
|
| > We're building a great hotel, and that's going to start
| very soon. And I never met the president, and I used to go
| over there quite a bit. And obviously we manage teams over
| there, and it's pretty amazing that he knew who I was. And,
| you know, it's obviously -- I don't get involved in politics
| in Indonesia -- but when I heard that, I started laughing.
| 'Can I please meet Eric?' He must know the projects very
| well.
|
| 0: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/eric-trump-
| indonesi...
| ryandrake wrote:
| He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself.
| Man's got to have priorities.
|
| 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_po
| st...
| anonymousiam wrote:
| Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts.
|
| To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by
| Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS
| has nothing to sign.
| hypeatei wrote:
| The President typically has a lot of influence over party
| members in normal times, the Republican sychopants who
| are in Congress now will do whatever he says. A
| bipartisan border bill was killed before Trump even got
| re-elected[0] simply because _he didn 't want it_ passed.
|
| 0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-
| kill-b...
| Marsymars wrote:
| It's kinda funny if you don't live in the US.
| tjwebbnorfolk wrote:
| I live in the US, and it's still kinda funny. Mostly not, but
| is kinda.
| viraptor wrote:
| People outside the US pay attention and all the mess
| created/enabled there is actually appealing to some. I'd say
| it's funny in isolation, until my highschool friend mentioned
| that we should have our own Trump to stop Muslims coming in.
| It's a shitty example to the world.
| nadermx wrote:
| I applaud this. "Your tax dollars at rest"
| delichon wrote:
| They can come home, all is forgiven.
| alecsm wrote:
| This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer)
| because it's blocked in Spain. IP
| Provider Status 188.114.97.5
| AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked 188.114.96.5
| AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked
|
| And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know
| because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments
| on HN.
| prmoustache wrote:
| cloudflare. Most of the internet behind cloudflare is blocked
| whenever there are football being played in La Liga (the
| Spanish League).
| drnick1 wrote:
| This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like
| China?
| alecsm wrote:
| No, they just make all ISP operating in the country mass
| block IPs.
| stefan_ wrote:
| This says "USDA operational"
| superfunny wrote:
| Needs to go back further - there were shutdowns 30 years ago
| nekusar wrote:
| A far as I'm concerned, they're just intentionally failing to do
| their job. And they *all* in congress should be fired for job
| abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not
| allowed to run.
|
| After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff), they
| sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut down".
| It's a scam.
|
| Something about "taxation without representation". I think we
| went to war over that before.
| maest wrote:
| A failure like this would immediately trigger reelections in
| the UK. It's a strong incentive to not shut down the
| government.
|
| There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact,
| you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then
| blame the other party.
| nekusar wrote:
| > There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In
| fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and
| then blame the other party.
|
| Which is precisely what's happening.
|
| Im frankly done with the children bickering. But in all
| seriousness, neither party really cares about us. Republicans
| are engorged with the tech neofascists, and the democrats are
| caught up with special interest du jour, with a healthy
| smattering of surveillance as well.
|
| Ive seen how the governments (local, state, federal) operate.
| It's fucked, and its going to be a long time to fix it, if
| possible.
|
| Not sure what my plans are, honestly. Take it as I can, i
| guess.
| nelox wrote:
| Indeed. In Australia, a government was once dismissed after
| failing to pass supply bills in the Senate (Supply bills
| allocate money to the government). The Governor-General
| resolved the deadlock by dissolving Parliament and calling an
| election. The event is known as "The Dismissal". It remains
| one of the key examples of the Governor-General's reserve
| powers in action.
| Esophagus4 wrote:
| In general, this is by design in The States.
|
| The system is setup to prevent political opportunism and
| provide predictability and rigidity of the system at the
| expense of being slower to respond to constituents.
|
| The incentive is still there, it's just a few years off in
| the next election.
|
| (That being said... sighing loudly as he gestures around him
| at all the political opportunism...)
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _they 're just intentionally failing to do their job_
|
| How is this a hot take? The debt ceiling is statute. Electeds
| are doing what their voters want them to do. Until shutdowns
| result in a bipartisan anti-incumbency wave, they won't go
| away. (The electoral consequences of shutting down the
| government are mixed at best.)
| roxolotl wrote:
| Just a nit but this isn't a debt ceiling issue. They raised
| the ceiling by 5trillion with the big bill passed in the
| spring[0]. Shutdowns occur because no budget has been passed
| so the government hasn't been authorized to spend any money.
| The bill they are arguing over now would fund the government
| through Nov 21st[1].
|
| 0: https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/family-
| finan...
|
| 1: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5545929/house-
| stopgap-f...
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _so the government hasn 't been authorized to spend any
| money_
|
| Thank you for catching. Mixed up my fuckups. I'm sure the
| administration that's been illegally impounding mandated
| spending is absolutely constrained by the law in this
| case...
| BlackjackCF wrote:
| The US really needs formalized processes for snap elections and
| easier ability to recall elected officials. The fact that this
| is happening and we all just have to sit on our hands and wait
| for the next election is wild.
| ryandrake wrote:
| This is being done by the people America collectively
| elected. Moar Elections is not going to help. Enough
| Americans want this chaos and deliberately voted for it.
| SR2Z wrote:
| Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an
| idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and
| goes based on vibes.
|
| Such a person would ignore any issue short of, say, their
| paychecks or SSA benefits not arriving on time. After that,
| who knows who they would support?
|
| Democrats have a lot less to lose than the GOP right now.
| The party is unpopular and locked out of power. There's
| only upside to shutting the government down, if you ignore
| the very serious impacts on normal people.
|
| Trump is not capable of seeing this because he reflexively
| has to win every conflict he's involved in.
| ryandrake wrote:
| > Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of
| an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works
| and goes based on vibes.
|
| I think the median voter looks at what a politician says
| they are going to do, assumes they are going to do it,
| and votes based on that. Say what you will about the
| Trump administration, they are doing _exactly_ what they
| were shouting from the rooftops that they would do. Grief
| people they don 't like, sow chaos and division, start a
| devastating trade war on multiple fronts, and cause daily
| chaos and drama. They said it loud and clear for years
| before the election. They got elected. And, then they did
| it!
|
| If I had anything good to say about these guys it's that
| they were 100% transparent about their plans _and_ they
| followed up on them right out of the gate. Exactly zero
| people should be surprised at what they delivered. It 's
| actually pretty impressive how faithfully they are
| delivering on all of their promises of destruction and
| chaos! In fact, polls of Republicans show consistent,
| strong and enthusiastic approval of the administrations
| actions, as they themselves fall deeper into poverty and
| hopelessness.
| atmavatar wrote:
| There was nothing to stop the Republican party from
| unilaterally averting the shutdown, and there's nothing
| stopping them from unilaterally ending it. They have the
| majority in both houses as well as the presidency, so
| they can pass anything they like.
|
| The only road bump in place is the Senate filibuster rule
| - but that's a rule that can be (and has been) tossed
| aside when inconvenient. Recall that Republicans removed
| the filibuster from judicial appointments when they
| wanted to ram through multiple Supreme Court justices and
| hundreds of lower court judges.
|
| The underlying problem is that the current Republican
| party _wants_ this shutdown because it reinforces their
| half-century-long message that government is broken and
| gives them cover to remove federal workers.
|
| It also doesn't help that the House is remaining closed
| to delay seating an incoming Democrat representative from
| an Arizona special election.
|
| Expect this shutdown to continue for a while.
| mulmen wrote:
| > And they _all_ in congress should be fired for job
| abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not
| allowed to run.
|
| I find these takes very tiresome. What kind of insight can you
| draw from this all or nothing thinking? It's reductive and
| uninteresting.
|
| Not all elected representatives are refusing to work.
| Collective punishment creates an opportunity for bad actors to
| force an election and remove their colleagues from office.
|
| > After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff),
| they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut
| down". It's a scam.
|
| Well yeah, of course they are. You still owe taxes. When the
| government reopens the taxes you pay will still be allocated.
|
| > Something about "taxation without representation". I think we
| went to war over that before.
|
| This is not what was meant by taxation without representation.
| We do have elected representation, even in a government
| shutdown. Congress refusing to work is not a consequence of the
| government shutdown, it is a political choice made by elected
| representatives.
| lithobraking wrote:
| >After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff),
| they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut
| down". It's a scam.
|
| This is because a significant amount of the government is still
| running. [1] Around 50% of gov employees are currently working
| without pay (but with expected backpay). If _everyone_ stopped
| working major systems would immediately be disrupted: The
| military would stop all operations. Planes would be grounded.
| Weather predictions would cease to exist. Food &
| pharmaceuticals wouldn't be screened. Participants in medical
| studies would stop getting treatments. etc.
|
| Contractors are also capable covering expenses with overhead.
| But soon, many will run out. For example, the contractors who
| perform nuclear weapons research [2]. At which time, they will
| have to shut down and employees will be furloughed without
| guarantee of backpay. (The current expectation is unpaid leave)
| As someone who works in a related civilian field this would
| severely impact our mission and the folks who work here.
| Especially the newer ones like postdocs who may not have much
| savings.
|
| [1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/who-is-still-
| workin...
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| [2]: https://sourcenm.com/2025/10/17/doe-secretary-nnsa-to-
| furlou...
| neckardt wrote:
| Love it! One nit: the % number jiggles around. This can be fixed
| either by left aligning the number, or by using a monospaced
| font.
| sherry-sherry wrote:
| Or using 'tabular figures' for the numbers. It keeps just the
| number widths the same. I believe it's 'font-variant-numeric:
| tabular-nums;' in CSS.
|
| I often see it on sports broadcasts, or anything with a counter
| where the number changes and makes the rest of the line
| 'jiggle'.
| daft_pink wrote:
| Wish there was a simple way to get updates on large swings in the
| government shut down poly market.
|
| I'd really like to know when things are shifting without having
| to watch the stupid news every day.
| hdaz0017 wrote:
| - if governement is down does that mean citzans do not have to
| pay any taxes
|
| - All US workers need to go on strike until you get a government
| that works for the whole population ;)
| atmavatar wrote:
| It's too bad the page only goes back 15 years.
|
| It would be a bit cooler if it went all the way back to the first
| government shutdown under Carter.
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