Is Hacker News down?
Historical uptime
Last 90 checks · auto-refreshed
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.
About Hacker News
Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) is a online 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 514 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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Hacker News is a popular online service tracked by rimetry. Outages and incidents are monitored 24/7 across multiple regions.
Common issues
- · Login or authentication failures
- · Slow response times in specific regions
- · Outages affecting the API or core services
- · Payment or checkout failures
Troubleshooting
- · Refresh the page and try again
- · Clear your browser cache and cookies
- · Try a different network or device
- · Check Hacker News's official social channels
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.
Discussion
Crowd reports and conversation from other users tracking Hacker News.
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