fp.

It's not just Claude API. See: "We are investigating reports of degraded performance affecting claude.ai, platform.claude.com, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.". Seems pretty big to me.

It's software used by many here so of course you will hear about Claude downtime here.

alexkkoo93•34m ago

Yea bc what are we supposed to do with ourselves now.

curious_cat_163•47m ago

Looks like their auth is broken. Do they ever publish postmortems?

nabeards•46m ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324068

2001zhaozhao•44m ago

bruh

rvz•43m ago

Claude is taking the rest of the day off, without alerting everyone. So it seems.

Boss0565•42m ago

still using anthropic in the big august 2026?

gigatree•41m ago

As opposed to what?

alexjplant•34m ago

If you don't have regulatory hurdles to jump over then there are a whole raft of open-weight models that perform basically as well as Anthropic's offerings (and, in many cases, better because they're pulling fewer capacity-stretching shenanigans). Check out Kimi, DeepSeek, and GLM series models in particular with something like OpenCode or Pi as a coding harness. If you need a Claude-alike web UI then spin up Open WebUI in a container and expose it via cloudflared so you can use it on the go.

gymbeaux•27m ago

Kimi and DeepSeek are impressive for their size but still run slow on any hardware you or I would have. If you’re proposing we run those via a cloud service, I don’t see a reason to do that when it’s an inferior model and I still have to pay per token for it.

alexjplant•19m ago

OpenCode Go provides a lot of usage for these models for the paltry sum of $10/month. Z.ai's coding plan provides a single-digit multiple of Claude Code's usage for a similar price and performance level. Kimi and DeepSeek models are hundreds of billions of parameters (or, in K3's case, >1T). Many of these models have Opus-level benchmarks and, as I pointed out previously, often practically outperform Anthropic models because they don't hallucinate as frequently.

BoneHeadCIO•42m ago

My bad, I asked it to do something for me that really must have blown its mind

maxall4•40m ago

Status page reports as down: https://status.claude.com/

petcat•39m ago

Use Claude through AWS Bedrock. Never been down for me.

MyFirstSass•23m ago

Using it through Bedrock / API the 200$ subscription costs upwards of 6000$ a month.

How do you guys afford this, huge company that grants this?

Definitely not viable for my lean startup.

fennecbutt•10m ago

Via "Endless growth" baybeeeee

metaltyphoon•15m ago

Meanwhile using it via GCP Vertex it was down terribly for 2 days last week

GangstaAgents•29m ago

Time to write code by myself today)

cassianoleal•15m ago

Rawdog coding.

g42gregory•29m ago

They are busy implementing text watermarks.

tito•27m ago

I found out about this from my Claude Status menu bar I built last time it went down! It's invisible most of the time, unless the status goes down then a yellow or red marker appears. Improvements welcome: https://github.com/titojankowski/claude-status

gymbeaux•25m ago

We’re in the phase of society where we will just build something like this ourselves using an LLM and it will be built exactly how we want it and we don’t have to worry about malicious code or forking it and hoping the owner will merge our PR… it’s sad but that’s where we are for anything the size of a menu bar that pings a URL every minute.

soundworlds•25m ago

Yeap, all Oauth sessions got kicked and can't get back in. Welp, switching to Deepseek V4 Flash 0731 via OpenRouter.

Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!

amelius•24m ago

I asked my OpenClaw agent to build me a Dyson sphere.

powvans•12m ago

Claude, build Kardashev Type III power harnessing. Make no mistakes.

chuckadams•1m ago

[delayed]

mr_bob_sacamano•16m ago

oh no, now we have to activate our brains without generate tons of CO2! Ahhhhh...It's really unfair!

cryo32•15m ago

Commence dribbling into the keyboard!

gentooflux•15m ago

Maybe get him something nice to cheer him up

fennecbutt•12m ago

To party? Awesome.

jatora•7m ago

As usual with these posts (here and on reddit), the outage is over within 5-10 minutes. Makes you wonder what power these have over the minds of SWE's who rush to scream immediately when their tool stop working.

bmitc•4m ago

A tool is a tool. Our companies are shelling out millions of dollars to these companies.

How many of us sometimes spend our days just hopping between the tools that are actually working at the moment?