Hacker News status
Hacker News uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 33 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Hacker News down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached Hacker News successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 1,036 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 991 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 584 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 695 ms |
Based on 208 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when Hacker News misbehaves
Hacker News is a news and reading service in our news & reading catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- WebsiteArticles loading
- Paywall & loginSubscriber access
- Mobile appReading offline and online
- MediaImages and embedded video
- Search & archiveFinding older articles
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of Hacker News's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Hacker News appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Hacker News
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship, operated by Y Combinator. It is used for submitting links, participating in threaded discussions, and viewing job listings. Frequent points of failure include database timeouts during peak traffic periods, internal server errors when submitting comments, and search functionality outages. Rimetry monitors the status of this forum by frequently pinging the server and documenting any periods of downtime or sluggishness reported from different regions.
Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) is a news & reading service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now Hacker News is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 33 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to news.ycombinator.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Hacker News include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Hacker News?
Hacker News is a popular online service tracked by rimetry. Outages and incidents are monitored 24/7 across multiple regions.
Hacker News is part of our News & Reading category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Articles not loading
- · Subscriber content locked despite an active plan
- · Images and video failing
- · App feed not refreshing
Similar patterns often surface across other news & reading providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Reload without an ad blocker — many reading errors are blocker-related
- · Sign in again if subscriber content is hidden
- · Try the mobile app if the site is unreachable
- · Check whether only certain sections fail
- · Clear cookies if the paywall counter is stuck
- · Check Hacker News's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to news & reading.
FAQ
- Is Hacker News down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past Hacker News incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to news & reading.