Tell HN: HN was down - Hacker News

Posted by uyzstvqs 12/17/2025

Tell HN: HN was down

- HN errored on all authenticated requests with 502 Bad Gateway. It did still respond to a limited amount of unauthenticated requests with presumably cached pages, which did not get updated. The last post on /newest claimed "0 minutes ago", but was actually much older (1:32:57 PM GMT) and not the newest post.

- This status page actually identified the outage: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ - Pages by Hund and Statuspal did not show the outage.

- The last post before the outage was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301823 (1:39:59 PM GMT). The last comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301848 (1:41:54 PM GMT).

- There was an average of ~4 seconds per comment just prior to the outage. Based on this, HN likely went down at 1:41:58 PM GMT.

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silverpiranha 12/17/2025|

Yes, was down for me too this morning

markus_zhang 12/17/2025||

Yes was down for me. Ontario, Canada.

wek 12/17/2025||

Yes, it was down for a few hours

gepiti 12/17/2025||

Athens, Greece yes it was down.

thatgerhard 12/17/2025||

Thought for a second I got banned for something lol

elxr 12/17/2025||

I thought I was being rate-limited for opening posts too fast, which has happened before.

After more than an hour I thought, "wow this is pretty harsh" and "so much of my exposure to learning things is directly tied to HN posts". I was lost lol.

verzali 12/17/2025|||

Me too and I was wondering what I did!

Aachen 12/17/2025||

Your comment history doesn't sound IP-ban-worthy. Is there an alt that has you worried? :P

agumonkey 12/17/2025||

hn applied ycombinator too strictly

rzerowan 12/17/2025||

Yes

spooneybarger 12/17/2025||

Yes

ProofHouse 12/17/2025||

I wake up, and look at HackerNews lol. This morning sucked hahaha

bennydog224 12/17/2025|

Yes, I had to touch grass this morning.