[HN Gopher] Anthropic is Down
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Anthropic is Down
Author : ersiees
Score : 129 points
Date : 2026-02-03 15:48 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| yoavsha1 wrote:
| Both the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the
| rumored Sonnet 5 release
| eleventhborn wrote:
| That will be one strange way to release a model.
| yoavsha1 wrote:
| 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
| nicpottier wrote:
| 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? ;)
| kachapopopow wrote:
| it is not, sounds like an issue with AWS
| 8cvor6j844qw_d6 wrote:
| OpenClaw agents on Anthropic API taking an unscheduled coffee
| break.
| jsnell wrote:
| Status page: https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172
| jwr wrote:
| I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn
| about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.
| seaal wrote:
| 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.
| wild_egg wrote:
| It took them about 15 minutes to update that page
| jMyles wrote:
| 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.
| sjm-lbm wrote:
| 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.
| world2vec wrote:
| Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.
|
| -edit- CC is back up on my machine
| peter422 wrote:
| Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it
| shouldn't impact that many people.
| esskay wrote:
| Ah yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the
| priority for a globally distributed company.
| hk__2 wrote:
| HN users assuming the US are the only country in the World,
| episode #53985902582.
| atonse wrote:
| 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!).
| throwup238 wrote:
| We all have a chuckle when AWS east is down.
| hackeman300 wrote:
| I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population
| lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours
| mike-cardwell wrote:
| Just a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.
| gsibble wrote:
| Yikes man.
| hk__2 wrote:
| 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
| atonse wrote:
| 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.
| ddmma wrote:
| should enable some kind of agent automation
| echelon wrote:
| The automation of the SWE.
| orphea wrote:
| 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.
| monsieurbanana wrote:
| 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...)
| philipwhiuk wrote:
| No, but they are submitted by the sort of people who will use
| AI to write the GitHub issue details
| embedding-shape wrote:
| 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.
| tobyjsullivan wrote:
| 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.
| petters wrote:
| How could they be? Claude was down
| prodigycorp wrote:
| 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.
| xnorswap wrote:
| I think claude code has a /bug command which auto-fills those
| details in a github report.
| phito wrote:
| 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.
| Forgeties79 wrote:
| 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.
| embedding-shape wrote:
| 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.
| Forgeties79 wrote:
| 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.
| embedding-shape wrote:
| > 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.
| egeozcan wrote:
| 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.
| phito wrote:
| Well not really, vibe coding is literally brute forcing
| things until it works, not caring about the details of it.
| charcircuit wrote:
| So manual programming. Humans don't always get everything
| perfect the first try either.
| soulofmischief wrote:
| Are these superpredator vibe coders in the room with us right
| now?
| stevenpetryk wrote:
| 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.
| qbxk wrote:
| if history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes
|
| does vibe coding rhyme with eternal september?
| falloutx wrote:
| IF anything, this is good news for Anthropic, they can now
| bury every open source project with useless isssues and PRs
| nerdjon wrote:
| 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 )
| cing wrote:
| Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no
| humans allowed!
| jscheel wrote:
| and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing
| issues and this hasn't been reported yet"
| david422 wrote:
| 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.
| macintux wrote:
| 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.
| delaminator wrote:
| 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.
| kogasa240p wrote:
| Some of them don't even have error messages.
| nhubbard wrote:
| 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
| LetsGetTechnicl wrote:
| That's what happens when people outsource their mental capacity
| to a machine
| ebonnafoux wrote:
| 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.
| hacker_homie wrote:
| Couldn't have happened to a better Repo, I needed that chuckle.
| kogasa240p wrote:
| 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...
| falloutx wrote:
| 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)
| xd1936 wrote:
| I was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.
| dysoco wrote:
| Claude Code seems to be back up
| tankenmate wrote:
| i just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet
| ddmma wrote:
| is back online
| Jgoauh wrote:
| its up !
| deanc wrote:
| Probably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)
| embedding-shape wrote:
| 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 :)
| davedx wrote:
| 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!
| shermantanktop wrote:
| 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.
| skydhash wrote:
| > 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.
| pchristensen wrote:
| Switching between vim <-> emacs <-> IDEs is way harder than
| swapping a USB (unless you already know how to use them).
| NicuCalcea wrote:
| 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.
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| > Most people only have one mouse
|
| Tell me you're not a Mac user without telling me you're not
| a Mac user...
| crazygringo wrote:
| Huh?
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| The default Apple mouse needs a backup because it still
| cannot be charged and used at the same time.
| NicuCalcea wrote:
| Thankfully, not a Mac user, or even a wireless mouse
| user.
| ahmadyan wrote:
| 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.
| crazygringo wrote:
| I dunno. Text is a pretty good de facto standard. And they
| work in lots of languages, not just English.
| whatever1 wrote:
| I mean sublime died overnight when vscode showed up.
| amelius wrote:
| 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.
| paxys wrote:
| 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.
| alecco wrote:
| 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.
| _aavaa_ wrote:
| The classic commoditize your complements.
| gundmc wrote:
| Gemini CLI is open source too, though I think the consensus
| is it's a distant third behind Claude Code and Codex
| bloppe wrote:
| I only integrate with models via MCP. I highly encourage
| everybody to do the same to preserve the commodity status
| LetsGetTechnicl wrote:
| Using "low cost" and LLM's in the same sentence is kind of
| funny to me.
| harrisi wrote:
| 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.
| crazygringo wrote:
| > _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.
| harrisi wrote:
| 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.
| crazygringo wrote:
| 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.
| bgirard wrote:
| 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.
| falloutx wrote:
| on some agents you just switch the model and carry on.
| benterix wrote:
| 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.
| cainxinth wrote:
| 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.
| bergheim wrote:
| 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.
| zenexer wrote:
| It's more about the ensuing discussion.
| emsign wrote:
| 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.
| romanovcode wrote:
| Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of
| minutes. Who even cares?
| zamadatix wrote:
| 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.
| bergheim wrote:
| This is a good take. You are right, they rarely do report
| actual status.
|
| And yes, it probably should have been :)
| thehamkercat wrote:
| 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
| bergheim wrote:
| Fair enough!
| nerdjon wrote:
| 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.
| bergheim wrote:
| 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.
| emsign wrote:
| 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?
| rowanseymour wrote:
| 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.
| kogasa240p wrote:
| 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.
| kaelandt wrote:
| Now people are opening issues and LLMs are responding in
| completely nonsensical ways, nice one
| https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22843
| yodon wrote:
| Status page reports it's back up
| acedTrex wrote:
| 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.
| couchdb_ouchdb wrote:
| OR just take some time off from the grind to enjoy your life.
| falloutx wrote:
| Code quality increased.
| shepherdjerred wrote:
| I'm sure there are plenty of tools you rely on as an "engineer"
| as well
| ralusek wrote:
| What's updog?
| testycool wrote:
| Not much. Anthropic was down. What's up with you?
| ukuina wrote:
| Not much, what's up with you?
| gsibble wrote:
| Signal too
| paxys wrote:
| 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.
| faefox wrote:
| No big deal for people who know how to do their job.
| tankenmate wrote:
| Unless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an
| Anthropic model.
| StingyJelly wrote:
| Seems like a wider issue. Signal is down too, youtube seems to be
| struggling. Here we go again...
| VladVladikoff wrote:
| We need an updated XKCD comic where they are sword fighting but
| instead of "compiling" its "Anthropic is down".
| abrinz wrote:
| What's updog?
| zhoujianfu wrote:
| Not much, what's up with you?
| jackinthehat wrote:
| Yup. SOS
| palcu wrote:
| 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
| cirrusfan wrote:
| 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.
| somewhereoutth wrote:
| In other news: https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-
| code-at-anthro...
| falloutx wrote:
| 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.
| EngineerUSA wrote:
| 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.
| Alxc1 wrote:
| 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
| bastard_op wrote:
| 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.
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