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Steam Store is offline

https://steamstat.us/
54•DetectDefect•2h ago

Comments

vondur•2h ago
Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app. Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
lomase•2h ago
Maybe that is why is down.

On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.

jordand•2h ago
Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth too
reactordev•2h ago
Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
spwa4•1h ago
Yeah but I couldn't find an empty socket so just unplugged a few other things. It works now.

The Christmas lights I mean.

Thaxll•2h ago
Fun to be on call December 24th.
theandrewbailey•1h ago
> There have been 160,000 page views on this site in the past hour, this indicates an issue with Steam.

Number of page views on a "is it down" page is not necessarily indicative of a problem. Not being able to connect to the service in question is.

kube-system•1h ago
People visit these sites when they have problems. A large number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with an issue with the service.
Dylan16807•1h ago
I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict here.
jtrn•1h ago
And more people turning up at the clinic doesn’t mean there are more sick people, but it’s an indication.

Funny that you ignored “indicates,” which is a perfectly valid inference here, and also it’s true.

If you want to be pedant, don’t self-own.

imagetic•1h ago
It’s Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting crushed.

Good hunting.

stockresearcher•2m ago
Next year, keep in mind that you can buy games as gifts and then schedule them to be delivered to the recipient account at some point in the future. So you know, buy ahead of time, like normal gifting…
Insanity•1h ago
Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though!

Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
136•snvzz•1h ago•48 comments

Tell HN: Merry Christmas

281•basilikum•1h ago•88 comments

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
218•medv•4h ago•77 comments

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
67•adevilinyc•2d ago•6 comments

Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

https://ivanca.github.io/programming/2025/11/26/microsoft-pls-get-your-tab-to-autocomplete-shit-t...
34•AmbroseBierce•1h ago•11 comments

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]

https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
178•lioeters•6h ago•48 comments

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
8•notgloating•25m ago•0 comments

Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data

https://news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-research-team-digitizes-more-than-100-years-of-canadian-infecti...
35•XzetaU8•5d ago•1 comments

Asterisk AI Voice Agent

https://github.com/hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent
11•akrulino•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
206•hugs•6h ago•69 comments

Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation

https://github.com/sebastienros/comptime
30•bj-rn•4d ago•4 comments

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-d...
300•nickrubin•3h ago•194 comments

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/keystone/jobs/J3t9XeM-founding-engineer
1•pablo24602•3h ago

When Compilers Surprise You

https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang
197•brewmarche•11h ago•94 comments

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

https://qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html
43•ravenical•4d ago•15 comments

Online Book: Exploring Mathematics with Python

https://coe.psu.ac.th/ad/explore/
9•Andrew2565•5d ago•0 comments

The dawn of a world simulator

https://odyssey.ml/the-dawn-of-a-world-simulator
29•olivercameron•4d ago•5 comments

How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)

https://www.draketo.de/software/guile-10x
57•Tomte•3d ago•2 comments

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
1349•Aissen•1d ago•512 comments

A faster path to container images in Bazel

https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img/
57•malt3•6d ago•29 comments

How I Left YouTube

https://zhach.news/how-i-left-youtube/
41•dhashe•2h ago•59 comments

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
53•helsinkiandrew•3d ago•15 comments

The port I couldn't ship

https://ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship/
88•cjlm•6d ago•49 comments

Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)

https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition
79•tsenturk•3h ago•28 comments

Confessions to a Data Lake

https://confer.to/blog/2025/12/confessions-to-a-data-lake/
15•kkl•1d ago•5 comments

I'm returning my Framework 16

https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
141•YorickPeterse•11h ago•244 comments

Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows

https://medium.com/@tj.ruesch/a-local-first-reversible-pii-scrubber-for-ai-workflows-using-onnx-a...
16•tjruesch•7h ago•0 comments

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds...
142•zeristor•16h ago•105 comments

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html
75•todsacerdoti•8h ago•71 comments

Quake's Player Speed (2017)

https://rome.ro/quakes-player-speed-1
52•klaussilveira•1d ago•14 comments