YHK - yet another hacker news clone

46 points zhan_eg 1 hour ago 44 comments

Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector

ericmay 1 hour ago | parent

Seeing the same. Logging out of the desktop app and attempting to log back in just results in a reset of the authentication flow.

walrus01 1 hour ago | parent

Large volume of user generated reports

https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

selbyk 1 hour ago | parent

I'm sorry, but why is this on the front page with 2 up votes? Do we really need to be alerted every time the Claude API responds with an error?

bossyTeacher 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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

curious_cat_163 1 hour ago | parent

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

throw1234567891 40 minutes ago | parent

Maybe their AI hacked their auth.

2001zhaozhao 1 hour ago | parent

bruh

rvz 1 hour ago | parent

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

Boss0565 1 hour ago | parent

still using anthropic in the big august 2026?

gigatree 1 hour ago | parent

As opposed to what?

alexjplant 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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're more consistent.

throw1234567891 38 minutes ago | parent

You should run the maths once. Those tokens cost you much more than the hardware would. But yeah, CAPEX vs OPEX something something.

jatora 50 minutes ago | parent

> perform basically as well > in many cases, better

Completely, unequivocably, factually inaccurate. I wonder if you are being dishonest on purpose? Best case scenario you are advocating this from a place of little experience. Either way it is dishonest.

throw1234567891 37 minutes ago | parent

It’s not, you drink too much Kool-Aid, and your employer has too much money. Or the things you do are simply so irrelevant that nobody cares you’re sending stuff to a company of dubious morality.

joshheitzman 1 hour ago | parent

Dozens of providers of open-weight models. I have one session going with synthetic.new and another going with novita.ai right now.

gymbeaux 1 hour ago | parent

But they’re slower (and benchmark worse) than Opus, GPT, et al. Why?

jnathsf 1 hour ago | parent

Codex w GPT 5.6 no issues w downtime and more token/cost efficient than Opus

BoneHeadCIO 1 hour ago | parent

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

maxall4 1 hour ago | parent

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

petcat 1 hour ago | parent

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

MyFirstSass 1 hour ago | parent

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 56 minutes ago | parent

Via "Endless growth" baybeeeee

metaltyphoon 1 hour ago | parent

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

GangstaAgents 1 hour ago | parent

Time to write code by myself today)

cassianoleal 1 hour ago | parent

Rawdog coding.

g42gregory 1 hour ago | parent

They are busy implementing text watermarks.

tito 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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.

tito 43 minutes ago | parent

yeah totally! some version of "summarize what this tool does at a high level and then build my own but don't use any of the code" perhaps.

soundworlds 1 hour ago | parent

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 1 hour ago | parent

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

powvans 58 minutes ago | parent

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

mr_bob_sacamano 1 hour ago | parent

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

jatora 46 minutes ago | parent

Do you have any idea how much CO₂ it takes to support the food/lifestyle of a median civilian in a first world country? Lol. AI is a drop in the bucket CO₂-wise

cryo32 1 hour ago | parent

Commence dribbling into the keyboard!

gentooflux 1 hour ago | parent

Maybe get him something nice to cheer him up

fennecbutt 58 minutes ago | parent

To party? Awesome.

jatora 53 minutes ago | parent

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 50 minutes ago | parent

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?

Bender 14 minutes ago | parent

The past couple of days I have noticed a presentation layer bug, probably due to getting overwhelmed that causes my session to get all dorked up technical term. Claude itself never goes down and is always waiting for my response. Not sure if it matters but I only use the Sonnet model. I've never had any issues logging in. Perhaps they have anycast [1] regional web proxies?

[1] - https://bgp.tools/as/399358