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Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

157•bakigul•2h ago
https://downdetector.tr/

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RockRobotRock•2h ago
jesus fucking christ i just wanna play runescape
JimmaDaRustla•1h ago
This made getting paged at 4am worth it
sebmellen•1h ago
Me too man
PascalStehling•2h ago
downdetectors downdetector shows that downdector should not be down. Something is wrong here.

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

Lionga•1h ago
https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... says https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down
terom•6m ago
downdetectorsdowndetector.com does not load the results as part of the HTML, nor does it do any API requests to retrieve the status. Instead, the obfuscated source code contains a `generateMockStatus()` function that has parts like `responseTimeMs: randomInt(...)` and a hardcoded `status: up` / `httpStatus: 200`. I didn't reverse-engineer the entire script, but based on it incorrectly showing downdetector.com as being up today, I'm pretty sure that downdetectorsdowndetector.com is just faking the results.

downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com and downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com seem like they might be legit. One has the results in the HTML, the other fetches some JSON from a backend (`status4.php`).

Folyd•2h ago
i can confirm it down again
B4n4n4•2h ago
LinkedIn down
jacquesm•1h ago
That's a net positive then.
pappya_coder•1h ago
Yes
ericcurtin•1h ago
Time to use some local ai with Docker Model Runner :)

No cloudflare no problem

https://github.com/docker/model-runner

jakewins•1h ago
Incident link at cloudflare: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q
JoeWiltshire•1h ago
https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!
yellowbanana•1h ago
This is art
designerarvid•1h ago
https://youtu.be/CIpbEa6KTNI?si=tgEaPo8xG7KnpxLt&t=564
klas_segeljakt•1h ago
It's downdetectors all the way down
zombot•34m ago
Is that the same as "All downdetectors are down"?
loopdoend•59m ago
No idea why the media always relies on/cites this useless site...
justmarc•52m ago
Down detector slop
Poudlardo•40m ago
haha this website actually is useful
zombot•37m ago
I always wondered who detects when downdetector.com is down.
johncolanduoni•36m ago
We need a set of down detectors that all detect if each other are down, and produce an answer via quorum.
rozenmd•34m ago
guess that explains the random spike in people searching downdetector in OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=RlByu...
Vivianfromtheo•1h ago
Crunchyroll down too got me and the anime community stressed
A_D_E_P_T•1h ago
If Crunchyroll is down for 30 minutes it's nbd, because you know they'll be back. If the pirate sites are down for any duration, it can be very stressful, because they can be gone for good.
ablation•1h ago
Already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191
pyuser583•1h ago
I assume this is why Claude stopped working
lionkor•1h ago
There are other LLMs you can ask to be absolutely, 100% sure.
Maxion•21m ago
You're absolutely right – Here is a list of current SOTA models that you can try!

Would you want me to:

- Create a list of all LLM models released in the past few months

- Let you know why my existence means you can't afford RAM anymore

- Help you learn sustenance farming so that you can feed your family in the coming AI future?

FranklinMaillot•21m ago
Not sure if this is related, but has anyone seen their allowance used up unexpectedly fast? Had Claude Code Web showing service disruption warnings, and all of a sudden I'm at 92% usage.

I'm on the pro plan, only using Sonnet and Haiku. I almost never hit the 5-hour limit, let alone in less than 2 hours.

Jsmith4523•1h ago
You know what, maybe AI is taking all the goddamn jobs
immibis•1h ago
They pretty much said this. All the big companies that had recent outages are companies that publicly embraced vibe coding.
poszlem•44m ago
This ignores all the companies that publicly embraced vibe coding and did NOT have outages. Not a huge fan of vibe coding, but let's keep the populism to minimum here.
lxgr•11m ago
On top of that, humans are more than capable of causing high-impact outages as well. (It's easier with massive unforced centralization, of course.)
jasonvorhe•42m ago
causality, causation, yadda yadda. They already explained that it was some react server component update. sure, could've also been done with some ai assist but we don't know.

These companies also don't vibe code (which would involve just prompting without editing code yourself, at least that's the most common definition).

I really hope news like these won't be followed by comments like these (not criticism of you personally) until the AI hype dies down a bit. It's getting really tiresome to always read the same oversimplified takes every time there's some outage involving centralized entities such as cloudflare instead of talking about the elephant in the room, which is their attempt of doing MITM on the majority of internet users.

johncolanduoni•42m ago
All the big companies embraced vibe coding, so I’m not sure there was a natural experiment here.
ivanbalepin•36m ago
if this is referring to Cloudflare, they are not yet particularly known for any major non-sales layoffs, ai or not.
echelon•1h ago
Appears to be fixed now. Just lost 30 minutes of working.

If this is unwrap() again, we need to have a talk about Rust panic safety.

jasmes•1h ago
Time to rewrite Rust’s unwrap() in Rust obviously.
jacquesm•1h ago
Now multiply that 'just' by the number of people affected.
Maxion•18m ago
Does it make it worse or better if I say it's RSC?

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q

camillomiller•1h ago
The entirety of shopify was down too for 30 minutes.
hdgvhicv•1h ago
And once again simple self hosted services remain up.
jacquesm•1h ago
Neat trick: just do job interviews when Cloudflare is down...
f311a•59m ago
> A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.
tietjens•57m ago
does this mean we can blame React Server Components for something new?
johncolanduoni•39m ago
I always suspected RSC was actually a secret Facebook plan to sabotage the React ecosystem now that their competitors all use it to some degree. Now I’m convinced.
girvo•24m ago
I mean RSC wasn’t really even the FB folks as far as I remember, they barely control React anymore
dtf•45m ago
Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timing is rather suspicious!
johncolanduoni•43m ago
Maybe the little plane icons on the ATC screens are a PNG hosted on some Cloudflare domain.
Popeyes•33m ago
Fontawesome?
Maxion•17m ago
minified js depependency loaded from some CDN?
yatralalala•36m ago
Internet is no longer decenstralised.

Some interesting DNS data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249

huijzer•21m ago
Hence why I wrote a post on 18th of Nov (previous Cloudflare outage): https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cl....

That blog post made it to the front page of HN and my site did not go down. Nor did any DDoS network take the site out even though I also challenged them last time by commenting that I would be okay with a DDoS. I would figure out a way around it.

In general, marketing often works via fear, that's why Cloudflare has those blog posts talking about "largest botnet ever". Advertisement for medicine for example also works often via fear. "Take this or you die", essentially.

dev_l1x_be•31m ago
Instead of figuring out a novel way of distributing content a stateful way with security and redundancy in mind we have created the current centralised monstrosity that we call the modern web. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
privera13•29m ago
Down of a System
ndsipa_pomu•23m ago
WAKE UP!
ractive•13m ago
Grab a brush and put a little makeup.
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The old guard has left as they we too much of an expense in this cost-cutting age... without mentors, crap creeps in and now we are seeing what happens when people don't know how things work, are in charge...

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