[HN Gopher] Stackoverflow Outage
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Stackoverflow Outage
Author : ga_to
Score : 15 points
Date : 2025-11-30 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| ziggure wrote:
| Didn't notice, as Claude is still up.
| John7878781 wrote:
| Stack Overflow is no longer relevant. Today, you can just ask
| Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT instead, and you don't have to deal
| with the usual condescension.
| kace91 wrote:
| How much of that LLM output is the result of adding SO's
| content to the pot?
|
| And if usage declines, what will be feed future LLMs with?
| arbol wrote:
| SO is probably a very significant factor in the success of
| LLMs but it's decline will not affect LLM development. LLMs
| will simply be trained on the conversations people are having
| with them.
| kruuuder wrote:
| Blog posts and GitHub discussions come to my mind. That's
| where I often find answers to my questions and where I
| contribute.
| Etheryte wrote:
| I can see where you might get that sentiment, but where do you
| plan to go when new tech rolls around, the docs don't cut it
| and your LLM of choice hallucinates APIs that don't exist? This
| was always Stackoverflow's bread and butter, and people who
| only use it as noob search tend to miss that fact. SO can be a
| tough crowd, yes, but mostly it's people who didn't read the
| rules before posting who get burnt. That aside, it still has a
| very high concentration of experts that you'll struggle to find
| anywhere else.
| arbol wrote:
| LLM clients like chatgpt can scrape the code of new tech on
| demand. They tend not to hallucinate when you provide fixed
| inputs like this.
| protocolture wrote:
| >I can see where you might get that sentiment, but where do
| you plan to go when new tech rolls around, the docs don't cut
| it and your LLM of choice hallucinates APIs that don't exist?
|
| Not Stackoverflow, because all my questions are either
| ignored or closed, even when extremely detailed and unique.
| ndespres wrote:
| Growing grains is no longer relevant. You can just walk into
| any supermarket and purchase packaged cereals, breads, and
| cakes, and you don't have to deal with operating a tractor,
| cultivating soil, or sowing seeds.
| blueflow wrote:
| The equivalent of "growing grains" would be reading the
| documentation - SO is second-hand knowledge.
| 1-2-3-5-8 wrote:
| Status updates for stackoverflow are like: hey look at me, I'm
| still here.
| jakubriedl wrote:
| I thought they're just shutting down because it wasn't worth
| running the servers anymore.
| hokumguru wrote:
| Last I heard they self hosted. Far as I understand it's
| incredibly cheap for them to host. Especially since they've
| been completely cannibalized.
| sien wrote:
| This is an ill formed question.
|
| Stackoverflow may be up or down.
|
| Please return later when you are able to determine exactly where
| your problem is and have read all the documentation on Unix, C
| and the internet.
| lordnacho wrote:
| SO has had an effective outage for years now. Put up a question,
| get smacked with "it's a duplicate" of an old, no-longer-relevant
| question, mods don't correct it because the culture is
| gatekeeping, now you have a dead Q&A site.
|
| With the additional problem that someone invented a way to take
| your question pages and tailor them to the exact needs of a
| particular user.
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