Tell HN: HN was down

599 points by uyzstvqs ↗ HN
- HN errored on all authenticated requests with 502 Bad Gateway. It did still respond to a limited amount of unauthenticated requests with presumably cached pages, which did not get updated. The last post on /newest claimed "0 minutes ago", but was actually much older (1:32:57 PM GMT) and not the newest post.

- This status page actually identified the outage: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ - Pages by Hund and Statuspal did not show the outage.

- The last post before the outage was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301823 (1:39:59 PM GMT). The last comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301848 (1:41:54 PM GMT).

- There was an average of ~4 seconds per comment just prior to the outage. Based on this, HN likely went down at 1:41:58 PM GMT.

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Yep "having trouble serving my request" or so.
Yeah I couldn't log in for a bit this morning. It's concerning how often and how many times I tried. Glad it's resolved.
TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex
Yes, and I'm a little ashamed to admit my morning routine wasn't the same without it.
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I run the app called HACK and received user emails that the HN website was down.
Yes, it' been out for me too, southern hemisphere, GMT -03
Yeah & chatgpt was trying to gaslight me - claiming it was my fault. Happy to put that bum in its place...
When it was down my thought was "damnit, I'll actually have a productive workday now."
Yes, and on one request I saw a message like "Restarting server - this won't take long", and soon after it's back up.
Yes, it was down for a few hours
First AWS/Azure/Cloudflare and now HN?!?
I got irrationally angry when it refused to load the website
Yes, I got an error message, but I cleared my cookies and was able to access.
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