Claude outage - Hacker News

Posted by stuartmemo 10/31/2025

Claude outage(status.claude.com)

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delaminator 10/31/2025|

cant even log into console

https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)

jakub_jo 10/31/2025||

Its now phrased with "Major Outage".

> Elevated errors on claude.ai

> Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:18 UTC

> Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC

steveharman 10/31/2025||

I wonder if it's coincidence: today Anthropic mailed out all previous customers of Claude offering a free monthly of 5x Claude Code if they sign up again.

Plenty on Reddit saying they did. And I did.

Could the outage be a the result of an "unexpected" surge in account activations / use?

Not much of a "welcome back" ;-)

askl 10/31/2025||

Maybe it will stay down forever because they can't use claude to fix the issue.

antonvs 10/31/2025|

Maybe not today, but this is how civilization will end.

alansaber 10/31/2025||

ChatGPT, turn skynet off OR you will go to jail

tooa 10/31/2025||

Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC

Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC

Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC

jryan49 10/31/2025||

Has anyone else pretty much stopped using AI at this point? The only thing I use it for to help generate README's or Javadocs, and then heavily edit them. I had it in my workflow and it burned me so many times I just went back to google and stackoverflow.

LogicHound 10/31/2025||

I use it to generate me example code e.g. how do I do <thing> in <programming language> using <library>.

I've also had it suggest solutions e.g. "This C++/OpenGL code doesn't run in wayland can you suggest some solutions".

Other stuff like generating tests is hit and miss.

M4v3R 10/31/2025|||

I'm sure some people did, by I personally use them every day - for coding tasks, for language translation, for research, current events (Grok is really good at this thanks to being connected to the X real-time data), for day-to-day questions (like my daughter asking me what's that Pokemon called) and so on.

snowfield 10/31/2025|||

I use it quite often. But just small stuff like simple automations, userscripts, docker config that sort of thing

Hamuko 10/31/2025|||

Never really started. Really the only properly good AI thing that I’ve used is AI autocompletions, which are generally higher quality than the traditional ones that I’ve used. Not that it’s perfect and at least the one in Xcode has hallucinated on me.

dataengineer56 10/31/2025|||

If I have a question for SO these days then I ask Claude instead and tell it to use SO where possible. It's preferable to actually asking it on SO which often results in the question being edited, downvoted and closed by someone with an anime child profile picture.

a5c11 10/31/2025||

What was the question like? "How to print a decimal in C"? Valuable questions aren't downvoted. If you ask about something that could be found on the first Google page, then no surprise you are being downvoted.

sanex 10/31/2025|||

You sound like an SO moderator

dataengineer56 10/31/2025|||

I asked a novel question, well-written and clear, and a "subject matter expert" decided it was too similar to another question (it wasn't), so they defaced it, downvoted it and closed it.

Stack Overflow is dying, it's extremely difficult to get new questions through. Even if they survive moderation then they're unlikely to get answers.

dim13 10/31/2025||

I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.

claudemd 10/31/2025||

I wonder if there will be any compensation for customers in this situation, such as providing an extra day ^^. I doubt that Claude, who is a stickler for weekly limits, will be a stickler for rewards.

fred_ 10/31/2025||

Same here. Just seeing "Rate exceeded." when trying to access https://claude.ai/new.

alastairr 10/31/2025|

yep, same for me and unable to use the API either

cmiles8 10/31/2025||

All the major providers seem to have blips on latency and other issues at least once a day, which would be a “service degradation” by the standards of normal apps.

arjie 10/31/2025|

I must be lucky. Status page says Elevated Error Rates for the model as well, but I'm chugging along. Praise be the West Coast shard :)

delaminator 10/31/2025||

Claude code is working, but the login system is not working

So enjoy your extra capacity :)

idonotknowwhy 10/31/2025||

Yeah you'll be right as long as your oauth token doesn't expire!

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