Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

2026-03-1114:398672

I've started getting some 401 errors on a subscription again and oauth seems to be struggling to restore the session. Is it just me?

I've started getting some 401 errors on a subscription again and oauth seems to be struggling to restore the session. Is it just me?

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  • By rethab 2026-03-1114:423 reply

    Same issue here. What was the name of that question and answer site again where you had to manually copy and paste code from? ;-)

    Official status is still green: https://status.claude.com/

    But downdetector is clear: https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

    /edit: there's an official incident now: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jm3b4jjy2jrt

    • By giancarlostoro 2026-03-1115:49

      They just updated it some 4 minutes ago.

      > Update - We're currently investigating issues with Claude Code and Claude.ai. Some users may be unable to log in, and others may experience slower than usual performance. The Claude API is not affected.

    • By buddhistdude 2026-03-1115:37

      oh about that one... we killed it unfortunately

    • By Lionga 2026-03-1117:47

      vibe coded trash....

  • By izolate 2026-03-1115:134 reply

    Does anyone recall how to code manually? I certainly don't :-)

    • By thrill 2026-03-1115:281 reply

      I do - but then I shudder, and go make a sandwich - which still needs me for the moment.

      • By pan69 2026-03-1119:091 reply

        What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?

        • By pixl97 2026-03-1119:27

          sudo make me a sandwich

    • By Hamuko 2026-03-1115:36

      The C-suite doesn't want us to write code by hand anymore, so I think I'm supposed to just drink tea and collect salary whenever Claude is down.

    • By behnamoh 2026-03-1115:431 reply

      I feel ashamed writing code while Claude does it way better than me... I've found my forte is at designing systems and making project-level decisions, something that Claude still doesn't do very well.

      • By taylorius 2026-03-1122:41

        Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.

    • By siva7 2026-03-1115:54

      I also don't recall what i'm going to do tomorrow as busy as i am. That's what calendars are for.

  • By lnenad 2026-03-1114:485 reply

    It's really amazing how stability of platforms has gone down in the last year or so.

    • By romanhn 2026-03-1115:43

      If only this was correlated with something else going on in the industry...

    • By erksa 2026-03-1115:53

      yes, the new normal is crazy. Claude/Github et al.

      They are dogfooding their own tools and causing so much downtime, all in the spirit of "staying a head".

    • By khuedoan 2026-03-120:23

      > 100% of our code is written by AI

      Yeah we can tell...

    • By Ancalagon 2026-03-1118:141 reply

      The schadenfreude is so fucking palpable

      • By ramon156 2026-03-1119:07

        Weird take, will you also look sour at devs who use local LLM's in ~50 years? Or is that different

    • By skeledrew 2026-03-1116:26

      The mass immigration probably still taking a toll.

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