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Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]

61•minimaxir•1h ago
Shows an Incorrect API Key error...which is weird. Nothing on the status page. (EDIT: Added to incident page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...)

Per Twitter/X this appears to be widespread

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...

Comments

sscaryterry•1h ago
Friday afternoon in the US I guess, perfect time for things to go wrong.
killingtime74•1h ago
Looks like someone at OpenAI did a Friday afternoon deployment lol
edoceo•1h ago
Excellent work all around, take the rest of the week off.
pavelmelnichuk•1h ago
thank god I'm not the only one, pulling my hair out hitting ctrl+z ... Happy Friday I guess
rvz•1h ago
Codex took an unannounced early day off for the weekend. It happens.
killingtime74•1h ago
I thought I got banned.
ynac•1h ago
Cool - what were you working on!
ssl-3•1h ago
Waiting for a pizza.

You?

Razengan•1h ago
Watching the trailer for Megaton Rainfall on repeat and vibing out to the sick OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecKu1_O54U
ynac•3m ago
Leveraging the Ai for a Denon telnet / HTTP integration to help guests watch a DVD or the radio without my help : )
killingtime74•1h ago
Just a 3D render of a rocket. So I thought it was safe.
copperx•1h ago
China rocket? You are.
statenjason•1h ago
It’s my sign to touch grass.
copperx•1h ago
You mean burn?
darepublic•1h ago
praise the, grass!
nezhar•1h ago
A good time for reading
dang•1h ago
Or switching to Claude
prtmnth•1h ago
I switched to Claude. Opus 5.5 was causing fomo anyway. This was the trigger. I admit I have zero loyalty
spicyusername•1h ago
What... am I supposed to code by hand!?
embedding-shape•1h ago
No, outages is when you start experimenting with local models and catch up what's new since last outage. If you're a power user, you end up getting to play with local models every week!
esafak•1h ago
Don't deploy to production after noon on Friday!
elisbce•1h ago
Somebody really wanted to cross one off the weekly TODO list :)
jimmydorry•1h ago
This outage started a lot longer than 13mins ago. At least now I have an excuse to leave the office and have a long coffee break.
theuri•1h ago
I'm seeing this locally (on the desktop MacOS app): unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Incorrect API key provided
dingdong2026•1h ago
At last someone ffin noticed! I've observed it for at least an hour before the announcement.

So much for status reporting from openai. Must have been vibe coded.

amannm•1h ago
ugh I thought it was just me, ended up reinstalling everything from scratch
grim_io•1h ago
ChatGPT is not working... Better nuke the OS.
theuri•1h ago
same!
OutOfHere•1h ago
Next time, wait for five to ten minutes and check r/codex.
OutOfHere•1h ago
It easily took over 15 minutes of it being down for it to even register on the status page. The status page showed fake green for this long. This is as verified by myself and by many users on Reddit r/codex who have timed posts and comments. It is a scam.

If Reddit is more useful than a status page, then what good is a status page? A lie is a lie. 15 minutes can cause someone to reinstall their entire software stack as is documented on this page. For the sites I administer, I have immediate reporting, and I have never had a false alert.

esikich•49m ago
Sounds like you've never worked in Ops. Having immediate triggers for outages will absolutely flood you with useless alerts. 15 minutes is pretty normal before alerting as there are a zillion unsolvable intermittent issues (and non issues) that can cause a loss of connection to things.
cmrdporcupine•1h ago
ChatGPT also seems down for me.
OutOfHere•1h ago
It has been down in Work mode, not in Chat mode.
programmertote•1h ago
This outage is not just Codex, right? I am just using GTP-6 Astra for some administrative prompts and it has been returning, "Error in message stream", for several minutes now.
woodruffw•1h ago
It's on the status page: https://status.openai.com
minimaxir•1h ago
Clickable incident link: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...
dang•1h ago
Thanks - I put that in the toptext too.
Razengan•1h ago
inb4 Aeon
slics•1h ago
What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models? Anyone even considers using their locally hosted models in order to finish their work? Do you trust your local models to do any of you outstanding work? Do we even understand the code anymore to manually fix anything?
KronisLV•1h ago
> What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models?

Grab a different one, unlike GitHub being down, there's far less of a moat and you can swap out Codex for Claude Code pretty easily. Or any other provider and yes including local models, though it depends on how good the ones you can run locally are.

> Do we even understand the code anymore to manually fix anything?

Assuming you are not 100% vibe coding, you should! If you are vibe coding, then you should still be able to read the code and understand it regardless. Same with making any changes, it's just code. Whether it's worth your time to do that and work manually or not, that's a different question.

If I was limited to just one cloud provider, I'd just take a few hours off and have a beverage or take a nap. Or if working in office, find other busywork.

solarkraft•1h ago
Same plan as for a power outage: Go outside (hacker news), chat with your neighbors and wait.
_alphageek•1h ago
I remember the days when Stack Overflow would go down. People would actually start seeing each other's faces in the office kitchen.
greenowl•1h ago
If the excavator breaks down on a job site does the operator get out, grab a shovel, and start digging?
guluarte•1h ago
unrelated but also chatgpt is super buggy, try generating an image, click stop, now wong be able to send another message until you reload, this issue has been there for months
russellbeattie•1h ago
I amusingly was doing a "cleanup" of my various harnesses when this happened. Claude Code has a /doctor command which was actually quite helpful, so I decided to swap over to Codex and ask it to do a self-analysis and give me some recommendations if there's something I need to clean up. The response was a connection issue. And so was the next. And the next.

Took me the past 20 minutes to finally check for a status page and realize I hadn't broken something. Not before I created a new project, checked the settings to see my usage numbers, closed and opened the desktop app a couple times, logged out and logged in, used my phone to see if it was a general ChatGPT outage, and generally messing around trying to figure out what I had done.

I mean, you never know... it could have been my prompt that took the whole service down. (Sorry if it was).

preommr•1h ago
They are not having a good week.

I am not even excited about the expected reset because the model quality has been less than stellar.

OutOfHere•1h ago
They've been lying to everyone's face about GPT-6, considering GPT-6-Sol is markedly worse than GPT-5.6-Sol. It is a complete scam.
isaachinman•20m ago
Do you have proof of this?
fetus8•1h ago
was thinking there was something going on with my local network and realized I should look at HN...thank god it's not just me.
treefry•1h ago
Nevermind. Switching to Opus 5.5.
cgio•1h ago
These NS agents could have been dedicated to better platform resilience I guess.
jacobgold•1h ago
Testing something, can you guys post useless replies like "cool man" or "...okay?"
afavour•59m ago
...okay?
platevoltage•27m ago
cool man
ynac•1m ago
Way to go, Ace!
Aboutplants•59m ago
They getting ready to release a new model?
ajconway•58m ago
It's crazy how fast these things became load-bearing
esikich•57m ago
I don't know if related, but a half hour before it fully went down, it was flagging all of my requests as security violations which was bizarre.
mNovak•56m ago
Appears to be back online.
nealmueller•45m ago
Codex is back
killingtime74•1h ago
Hehe. Next. Now just the falcon 9
Razengan•1h ago
Or when it rains, do the farmers keep farming?
gchamonlive•21m ago
A local model would be akin to a smaller and slower excavator, so yeah, grab the Basterd and grind that dirt.

No but seriously, local models can't replace them altogether, but in case of a complete outage and imminence of work that can't be postponed like resolving support tickets, then it'll have to make do without more capable models.

vineyardmike•1h ago
> What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models

Honestly an outage on a Friday is perfect. Clean up your inbox, get to the small tasks you’ve neglected and go home early.

furyofantares•1h ago
Do something else that day?
serf•30m ago
I was worried somewhat until it become really apparent that small models that run locally can handle 99% of technical computer crap when given a decent tool set harness and net access.

so, to answer your question more practically, during this outage a luna agent of mine fell back to a local bonsai 2 model hosted on my desktop, and the work still got done just fine, just took longer.

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