Hacker News status
Hacker News uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · 30 days
- 100%
- Response time
- 585 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Hacker News down, or is it just you?
Multiple independent check rounds from rimetry's monitoring infrastructure, run seconds apart.
Our checks reached Hacker News successfully in every round of the last check cycle.
| Check round | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Reachable | 100% | 1,135 ms |
| Round 2 | Reachable | 100% | 1,057 ms |
| Round 3 | Reachable | 100% | 852 ms |
| Round 4 | Reachable | 100% | 976 ms |
Based on 364 automated checks in the last 24 hours. Each round is an independent pass over the same endpoint, seconds apart — a single failing round is not an outage; repeated failures across rounds are.
What can be affected on Hacker News?
These are the main Hacker News functions that can experience separate issues.
- WebsiteOpen the site in another browser to rule out a local cache issue
- Article pagesTry an article link directly if the homepage will not load
- Subscription & paywallSign out and back in if paid content is not recognised
- SearchTry a simpler query — search can fail while the rest works
- Mobile appForce-close and reopen the app, then retry on mobile data
This list shows which parts can fail on their own. It does not mean any of them is failing right now — the live status above is the only claim we make about the current state.
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.
Problems with Hacker News can affect website, article pages, subscription & paywall independently.
Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) is a news & reading service monitored continuously by rimetry's automated checks. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds in repeated independent rounds to detect outages and latency spikes the moment they happen.
Right now Hacker News is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 585 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
- · Open the site in another browser to rule out a local cache issue
- · Try an article link directly if the homepage will not load
- · Sign out and back in if paid content is not recognised
- · Try a simpler query — search can fail while the rest works
- · 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. - Is Hacker News Website down?
Website can fail on its own, separately from the rest of Hacker News. Compare the live status above with your own test of that specific function. - 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.