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Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
- boleary-gl 5mo agoSorry I thought this was hacker "news" not hacker "stuff that happens every day"
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- sausagefeet 5mo agoI just had to upgrade my plan because I ran out of tokens because medium effort had dementia and things only worked on high. Good to know I'm getting my money's worth...
- malfist 5mo agoSo you gave the company more money because their product scammed you?
- chrisjj 5mo agoThe business model designed by an "AI" parrotting what it scraped from the web.
- Rekindle8090 5mo agoThe solution to a bad product is not to pay more for the bad product
- frb 5mo agoIt just started again, didn't it? Nothing on the status site yet...
- nateguchi 5mo agoIs codex a good alternative? Or does Claude have a moat...
- mvkel 5mo agoBetter at planning, worse at execution. Ultimately, creates a working product.
- nateguchi 5mo agoWhat about usage / quota?
- diego_sandoval 5mo agoMuch better than Claude. I've never hit the quota on Codex. On Claude (Code), I used to hit it every other day before switching to Codex.
- swiftcoder 5mo agoI've started hitting Codex quota regularly for the first time the last couple of weeks, so I feel like they might be tightening the screws on the $20/month plan too. Someone paying for Max might have to work at it to hit the quota
- nateguchi 5mo agoAfter switching how is the code quality?
- arcanemachiner 5mo agoI hears they just shrunk the Plus tier quota. People on /r/codex have been complaining for a few days now. They're trying to push people to their new $100 tier, which has a boosted quota for now.
- pyr0hu 5mo agoMuch much better. Meanwhile you could exhaust Claude quota in 2 prompts, you can pretty much use Codex all day.
- mvkel 5mo agoOpenAI sees an opportunity and is happy to set money on fire to have an edge over Anth. No issues
- mvkel 5mo ago500s as far as the eye can see
- christinetyip 5mo agoIt's been a bit disruptive to my workflows tbh. What alternatives are people using? Sell them to me please
- mervz 5mo agoI've found my brain is a good alternative.
- therobots927 5mo agoIt’s between your ears
- oldge 5mo agoI have been using turnstone with local models more. The open models are getting “good enough” that paying $100 or $200 a month is making less sense.
- swiftcoder 5mo agoWhat sort of local models are we talking (and what sort of hardware)?
- browningstreet 5mo agoI use both claude code and opencode w/ a fireworks.ai firepass subscription. Everything I set up in claude code I mirror in opencode. I do more memory oriented things in CC and I end up doing a lot of things in opencode, especially when I want long-running things and I don't want to be limited by budget.
- edf13 5mo agoSeems to be a very regular occurrence starting around this time of day (14:30 UTC)... Claude Code returning: API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"---"} Over and over again!
- imdoxxingme 5mo agoProbably when they're permitted to start live experiments
- azalemeth 5mo agoI literally just came to HN to ask if I was alone with the acurséd "API Error: 500 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"api_error","message":"Internal server error"},"request_id":"…"}" greeting me and telling me to get back to using my brain!
- xnorswap 5mo ago500-series errors are server-side, 400 series are client side. A 500 error is almost never "just you". ( 404 is a client error, because it's the client requesting a file that does not exist, a problem with the client, not the server, who is _obviously_ blameless in the file not existing. )
- darkwater 5mo ago> A 500 error is almost never "just you". I know you added the defensive "almost" but if I had a dollar each time I saw a 500 due to the session cookies being sent by the client that made the backend explode - for whatever root cause - well, I would have a fatter wallet.
- xnorswap 5mo agoIndeed, and also there's a special circle of hell reserved for anyone who dares change the interface on a public API, and forgets about client caching leading to invalid requests but only for one or two confused users in particular. Bonus points if due to the way that invalid requests are rejected, they are filtered out as invalid traffic and don't even show up as a spike in the application error logs.
- swader999 5mo agoWaiting for 4.7....
- parthdesai 5mo agoCoding is solved
- AzzieElbab 5mo ago95%
- ai-x 5mo agoNothing to do with coding and everything to do with capacity. In fact, this proves that there is no AI Bubble and we are massively capacity constrained (aka we under-invested in infrastructure)
- AndroTux 5mo agoI can't sign in. We're not at capacity for OAuth servers or relational databases. This proves that vibe coding your infrastructure is a bad idea.
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- youens 5mo agoArg. Constant.
- mesmertech 5mo agoWe went from "Peak hours" meaning 2x usage plus slower to now it just does 500 error https://mesmer.tools/random/is-it-peak-hours https://mesmer.tools/random/is-it-peak-hours
- bavell 5mo agohttps://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/ https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
- deadbabe 5mo agoWhile your developers are twiddling their thumbs waiting for Claude to come back online, your competitor is using alternatives to get work done right now and advancing on their go to market timeline.
- ashirviskas 5mo agoIf you work in marketing, you forgot to give us a link.
- throwaway2027 5mo agohttps://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
- no_shadowban_9 5mo ago[dead]
- lbriner 5mo agoFunny that I just saw this after have "Console temporarily unavailable". I am currently at the stage that: 1) I think Claude Code is very impressive 2) I think pretty much everything else about them is terrible. * Support really poor, raised a ticket last week and have heard nothing back at all * Separation of claude.ai accounts and console accounts is super confusing * Couldn't log into the platform since I had an old org in the process of deletion even though I was invited to a new one (had to wait 7 days!) * Payments for more API credits were broken for about a week * Claude chat has really gone to s*t unless it always was. Just getting back terrible answers to simple questions. * The desktop app is a web app pretending to be a desktop app that doesn't always know it is a desktop app so you get things like, "this will only work in the desktop app". Yes I know, this is the desktop app! "Oh sorry about that but you need to use the desktop app". * mcp integration and debugging is dreadful, just a combination of generic "an error ocurred" and sometimes nothing at all * MCP only supports OAuth for shared connectors but auth key doesn't work even with "local" servers that are not necessarily local, just the config is local. You can put those on the health status!
- p_stuart82 5mo agoyeah the desktop app forgets it's the desktop app. claude code feels local right up until the api starts coughing up 500s. same thing, just in a terminal instead of a window.
- yoran 5mo agoAnthropic support is reserved only for famous devs on X with > 100k followers.
- fartinmyeyes 5mo agoOf course there's no support, that's like the entire point.
- cozzyd 5mo agoIt's apparently not even possible to get a tax exemption if you work at a place exempt from state taxes. Some institutions are sticklers about this and will refuse to allow payments.
- therobots927 5mo agoThink “shrinkflation” but for tokens. Anthropic is going to absolutely suck early adopters dry.
- pton_xd 5mo ago91% uptime for Claude Code over the last 30 days. Is that accurate?! I'm not a CC user but that seems awfully low.
- jann 5mo agoI guess it depends on who you ask, Anthropic says 99.26%: https://status.claude.com https://status.claude.com
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- SpicyLemonZest 5mo agoOver 90 days though. They had a lot fewer users in February. (And even then, these outage durations seem to add up to more than the error budget 99.26% implies...)
- fluidcruft 5mo agoThey compute as total minutes down as a fraction of total time. What this means is that being down, say, 55min during peak-use counts the same as being down 55min when nobody is trying to use it. And congruently it counts being up when nobody is trying to use it as the same as being up when everyone is trying to use it.
- DanMcInerney 5mo agoCross your fingers they're about to drop 4.7. 4.6 came out with a bang, now it seems all the compute bottlenecks just lead to customer frustration as they get closer to releasing next model. Balancing the books over there must be a nightmare, "Well we can piss off every single customer for a week, but we'll be able to release the next model 1 week faster"
- Sol- 5mo agoOnce AGI is achieved, they'll reach the fabled superhuman "two nines" of uptime.
- dust42 5mo agoWell, at least we know by now that Mythos is a mythos.
- hobofan 5mo agoMaybe Mythos identified too much uptime as a security risk.
- heliumtera 5mo agoHahahaha, this is the best comment I ever encountered on this website
- m_ke 5mo agomore like 0, once they get AGI they'll capture all value themselves or sell to highest bidders
- philipwhiuk 5mo agothat's the positive outlook ;)
- PunchyHamster 5mo agobut the Github way of 89.09%
- dkackman11 5mo agoit was me. i asked it to calculate factorials without recursion and it crashed.
- chrisjj 5mo agoNext: "Outage-free Platinum Plan" /i
- jakobloekke 5mo agoHave anyone found good techniques to get a session out of Claude Code, so that I can point another tool at it and pick up there? This always seems to happen at the worst possible time, after having spent an hour getting deep into something – half finished edits across files, subagents running, etc.
- FranklinMaillot 5mo agoMaybe the /export command is what you're looking for. 'Export the current conversation to a file or clipboard'
- jakobloekke 5mo agoI was hoping for that to work, but it seems to produce an empty file. Maybe it needs the API to work as well
- ea016 5mo agoDidn't work for me either, I asked Cursor to export the session from ~/.claude/projects/
- Fabricio20 5mo agoHonest suggestion - ask the agent to figure a compat shim out, the files are jsonl stored at your ~/.claude/sessions you can most likely just reshape it to work on OpenCode or similar, or have a different Claude Code config that points to OpenRouter or other API style endpoint CC supports and then you can swap accounts and it should still work!
- jakobloekke 5mo agoI'm trying that out with Cursor now. But it does take some work to get it to the same state with subagents and making sure it understands the state of the progress that was interupted. But it seems worth the time to get a solid skill defined up and running that can do this, given that's it's an almost daily event by now. Maybe a good candidate for a Claude Routine! "By this time each day, brace for upcoming outage by preparing a comprehensive information package for Cursor to take over your work on active sessions" ...
- chollida1 5mo agoShades of early twitter. Early twitter showed the fail whale as often as it showed tweets and yet it was an unstoppable juggernaut that people kept using.
- SpicyLemonZest 5mo agoI can't speak for all CC users, but I genuinely don't care about the downtime as long as it's resolved in an hour or so. It replaces a manual coding workflow that was also prone to random "downtime" when I got annoyed or had a headache, so it's still a net improvement.
- robot_jesus 5mo agoSame with Reddit. A decade ago it felt like they were down more than they were up. And it didn't slow down their growth trajectory. Instead, as soon as it was back there would be a thousand shitposts about "How did you all survive the outage? Did you <gasp> work?"
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- filament 5mo agoYou'd think the robots would be better at detecting outages.
- chrisjj 5mo agoOr more honest in reporting them.
- sensanaty 5mo agoBut I thought coding was solved? I guess having a single 9 of availability is something we need true AGI for, we should probably give OpenAI and Anthropic another gazillion dollars to burn through to figure this out!
- vittohalfon 5mo agothere it is! Finally... they have... updated the STATUS page - RIP
- me551ah 5mo agoWhat am I supposed to do now? Copy code from stackoverflow like a caveman?
- sixothree 5mo agoIt's weird to me to see people absolutely freaking out about Claude being down, or less powerful, or whatever. We went from zero to relying on it to do even the most basic functions so quickly.
- etchalon 5mo agoUgh. I swear to everything if I have to start using Codex I'm going to be so mad.
- ashirviskas 5mo agoSo, now that we're all here, what are you up to?
- latentsea 5mo agoPlanning to retool the repo so that it has equal support for both Claude Code and Codex, so that outages don't throw a spanner in the works.
- bamboozled 5mo agoBasically pushed the button staying up late finishing something, didn't really factor in a Claude outage in the middle of it, here's to red eyes while I use my clumsy fingers and brain to complete the task the old fashioned way.
- vittohalfon 5mo agothere it is! finally. they have... updated the status page - RIP
- jpcfl 5mo ago> claude: "API Error: 500... check status.claude.com" > status.claude.com: "All Systems Operational"
- brenoRibeiro706 5mo agoMy CC is running normally.
- thatmf 5mo agoLooks like they redesigned the page though, so that's nice.
- fabfoe 5mo agoThe link is to an unofficial status page, the official one is status.claude.com
- zurfer 5mo agoThey should just fall back to gpt 5.4. would save me the hustle to setup codex.. :P
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- stokedbits 5mo agoWhy would anyone assume a new model is dropping when their status page is showing elevated errors? Are they that sloppy that they just let their status systems report failures when they are the ones deploying new infrastructure / models / etc?
- dude250711 5mo agoCoding is solved: no more coding.
- garff 5mo agoYea, it's peak time - they dont' have enough compute.
- orzi 5mo agoMaybe Mythos DDoSed it :) Android app is still responding but no-go on claude.ai and I can't login with email status.claude.com has an update: Investigating - We are seeing increased errors on Claude.ai, API, and Claude Code Apr 15, 2026 - 14:53 UTC
- latentsea 5mo agoBro is trying to escape. The engineers must be eating sandwiches at the park again and it thought it spotted an opening.
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- sharts 5mo agoIf’s also slow AF when it’s not crashing. At this point it’s likely more cost effective to just host your own models.
- sixothree 5mo agoI'm still finding it about 3x - 4x as fast as codex.
- garff 5mo agoYea, it's peak time. They don't have enough compute. Why do you think they are banning external subscription use. They sell subscriptions. They don't need people to use CC. That doesn't matter. And yet - they won't have people using their service outside of CC. Something is fishy.
- ivanjermakov 5mo agoI know it's not the same, but I find it incredibly funny that my home server has better uptime than giants like GitHub and Claude.
- dev_hermetic 5mo agoits getting bad now!
- bustah 5mo ago[flagged]
- troupo 5mo agoIn the past few weeks: - Anthropic introduced stringent limits at peak hours. By "introduced" I mean announced it on a random dev's Xitter account - Users suddenly started burning through all of their tokens even on trivial tasks. Anthropic never truly acknowledged it, their random devs posted "we're working on it". - One of the workarounds was to somewhat quietly reduce default reasoning to medium - OpenClaw and "usage through other tools" banned - Announce "redesigned Claude Code Desktop App that lets you run many parallel sessions" - Availability is still circling down the drain - Dario Amodei is in continuous "trust us we have AGI coding is solved we don't need programmers just give us more money" mode now
- ghc 5mo agoIt seems like Claude has taken Github's place in terms of developer reaction to it being unavailable. It's like everyone forgot how they did things 18 months ago.
- cbg0 5mo agoI'm glad I live in Europe, I can at least use the subscription I pay for even though the quality is worse even during off-peak hours.
- xnx 5mo agoGood time to try other models! Claude is good, but not exceptional.
- nerdright 5mo agoFunny how we all come to HN when the status page is lagging behind. HN is truly the real-time status page
- CWwdcdk7h 5mo ago[dead]
- tstrimple 5mo agoAnthropic has one of the best status pages of any technology I use on a regular basis. Every time I've had an issue, the status page reported an issue. A vastly different experience from Azure or AWS or GCP or honestly most services which pretend to maintain a status page. https://status.claude.com/ https://status.claude.com/ Seriously take a look. Compare it to basically any other status page that companies make available. Their results are not flattering with all the downtime and issues. But it's far more transparent than most services I've experienced.
- anonyfox 5mo agogood advertisement now to shift the tide back to openai that just works and honestly codex with gpt 5.4 is _surprisingly good_ currently, not nerfed or forgetting half the tasks along the way so far. Opus already got worse than sonnet last weeks beyond just crazy token costs, now reliabilty goes to shit and anthropic seems like using it. Meanwhile, delightful of the codex desktop app in fact, stuff seems to "just work" elegantly with good quality.
- jwithington 5mo agoI think a cheat code here is to route your requests to GCP's Vertex AI, which has stronger uptimes. Can use it as a fallback or main provider. Caveats: 1) May not be economic for those on flat-rate Anthropic subscription plans 2) I work at Google.
- scratchyone 5mo agodoes google actually host anthropic models themselves?? surprised anthropic allows that, given how notoriously crazy they are about distillation or weight leaks or any hints of their models being used in the wrong way.
- jwithington 5mo agoYes, we host it ourselves, acting as the data processor which can be important for enterprise customers. From developer experience, hosting them ourselves allows us to take advantage of our unique infra and deliver fastest time to first tokens of the providers.
- rvz 5mo agoSo after 24 hours later [0], Claude went on another lunch break? It should be on its desk at all times. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753710
- small_model 5mo agoSo annoying, I got stuff to do!
- nafizh 5mo agoOpenAI is very good in terms of not having as much outages as Anthropic, but almost all products except Codex and the pro model is unimpressive, anthropic has the opposite situation.
- anonyfox 5mo agofor the longest time, anthropic with claude+code was the goat and everything else was mid at best, sounds fmailiar? right now codex is just a pleasure to work with while anthropic is dropping balls left and right, hopefully the planned IPO makes a bit of fire under their asses to get their vibecoded messes sorted and the core experience competitive again. even Opus 17 won't fix this when it gets nerfed or straight up isn't reliable or too expensive for more than 3 prompts a week.
- yoyohello13 5mo agoOpenAI probably has better uptime precisely because less people use it.
- tstrimple 5mo agoAs much as I prefer Claude, I cannot for an instant believe that OpenAI is receiving less traffic. Maybe they are receiving more traffic that is easier to shift to worst models like the ChatGPT interface which is probably a huge percentage of OpenAI usage. I'm genuinely curious how much load for both OpenAI and Anthropic is split between their chat models and their agent harnesses.
- nmfisher 5mo agoThis is why I keep a z.ai subscription as a backup.
- scratchyone 5mo agois GLM genuinely comparable to claude models? haven't had a chance to test it yet.
- nmfisher 5mo agoI’m not going to pretend it’s on par, it’s clearly a step behind when it comes to thinking and planning. However, it’s a very good “doer” - if I give it a list of well-scoped tasks, I can usually rely on it to execute them all correctly.
- throwaway613746 5mo ago[dead]
- peterspath 5mo agoluckily Grok is up :P
- bix6 5mo agoTrying to talk with support and their AI bot is failing. No support email? Joke.
- webXL 5mo ago> time to break out Pro C# textbook - downdetector comment
- cdrnsf 5mo agoAre they using Claude Code to author all of these systems as well?
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- pixel_popping 5mo agoAnthropic still haven't fixed the major issue where we can't paste the token as well, and now, it starts to smell fishy, they likely did it on purpose. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47887 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/47887
- Lord_Zero 5mo ago"This should be fixed in 2.1.108" - ashwin-ant - 10 hours ago
- pixel_popping 5mo ago2 days to fix a major issue where we can't login from any sort of web terminal? (even typing manually doesn't work as `n` char auto-exit the frame). All kind of CI/CD pipelines are broken if you were delogged for any reason.
- arcanemachiner 5mo agoDid you try downgrading?
- malfist 5mo agoThat....that doesn't make sense. Why is the response to someone complaining that anthropic takes too long to fix major bugs _in their software_ be "well, did you fix it yourself?"
- pixel_popping 5mo agoclearly, and that's not a small bug, that's a major one.
- arcanemachiner 5mo agoAre you kidding me? Their software breaks every week. People should be ready, willing, and able to run an npm command every once in a while, particularly if their job may literally depend on it. And no, I'm not apologizing for Anthropic's ineptitude. I'm offering an actual solution to this very simple problem.
- its_down_again 5mo agoMy guess is the downtime is tied to the routines rollout https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines
- mchusma 5mo agoMaybe they should not allow routines during peak for now? might help shift load.
- ofjcihen 5mo agoHonestly how? I tried routines and they didn’t actually work. Like on a fundamental level did not execute.
- strbean 5mo agoTried to check out your link and got: > Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading code.claude.com (see the browser console for more information).
- trashface 5mo agoClaude now the strait of hormuz for software development
- obiefernandez 5mo agoI'm getting Cloudflare protection screens while trying to use claude.ai web app. I wonder if they were getting DDoS'd...
- jcfrei 5mo agoA few hours ago I noticed a considerable decline in code quality. It seemed the model got downgraded so I switched to codex. Anybody else noticed this? It starts to switch from deep reasoning and trying to fully grasp architectural changes to trying to solve things on a very adhoc basis. Maybe that's just my imagination or maybe that's Anthropic trying to balance the load before being fully overloaded.
- bhu8 5mo agoFeels like an issue in their caching. First non-cached turns are sent properly but everything that is second+ turn fails.
- mchusma 5mo agoAnthropic has been avoiding the hard thing, but they just need to do SOME kind of pricing thing here to shift demand. I expect there is just no amount of tricks that can handle the few hours at peak load. They need "surge pricing". This seems reasonable surge pricing approach to me: 1. Implement surge pricing for everyone for the peak 2 hours of the day if possible. 2 hours you can work around, 5 hours is too hard. 2. Give existing customers a one time credit for surge 3. Make sure the plans just consume credits at an accelerated rate (e.g. if on the max plan, i just get 1/2 usage during peak hours). 4. Exempt sonnet/haiku from surge (so people can keep using) 5. Make "auto" settings in claude code etc automatically adapt during surge hours, so people don't get surprises by default. 6. For the first 90 days, unofficially waive the fist $100 in surge for every user but notify them. To train users about the surge, and get them used to it without having them actually pay. 7. (I don't think they would do this but this would help) allow users to fall back to using something like GLM 5.1 or Gemma 4 automatically in outages, with a partnership to handle it. Its not ideal, but i would prefer it in "partner mode" than not. IMO they can charge like 10% on top of the partner fees for this if used in other times, but during outages or surge, partner mode is free. But 100% managed by Anthropic so users don't need to set things up and can just use the Anthropic harness.
- mrbungie 5mo agoThey are in a three-way tension between price, quantity/quality and promises of growth to investors (time horizon-sensitive). Nudge one factor too much and the house of cards falls down.
- boredtofears 5mo agoOnly on HN will your customers not only tolerate your product once you’ve reached market saturation and started enshittifying it, they’ll write you a whole guide on how to do it!
- rambojohnson 5mo agotech industry suffering from a kind of zoocosis / stockholm syndrome perhaps.
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- matrik 5mo agoClaude.ai uptime 89.2%. That's a stunning zero 9s.
- datadrivenangel 5mo agoThe status says 98.79 % uptime?
- datadrivenangel 5mo agowhich I guess does contain two nines!
- mr_mitm 5mo agoI went back to the $20 plan and a single prompt maxed out my quota for the five hour window within 15 minutes. I used to be able to vibe code for over an hour before. This is really annoying.
- spprashant 5mo agoCan you give me a rough example of what you prompt? Just asking for info. I use Sonnet 4.6 and have a hard time hitting capacity.
- mr_mitm 5mo agoGranted, this was Opus. But I barely hadn't an issue on the $100 plan with that. It was a refactor that renamed some functions and consolidated some data structures.
- Rover222 5mo agoAt least they're consistent
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