Hacker News Outage History

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Hacker News had 2 outages in the last 2 years totaling 12m of downtime, averaging 0.1 incidents per month.

There were 2 Hacker News outages since August 23, 2026 totaling 12m of downtime. Each is summarised below. Incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: hackernews.onlineornot.com

Major October 15, 2026

[Automated] Website (unauthed) was inaccessible

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 15, 2026, 01:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 15, 2026, 01:37 AM UTC
Duration
6m
Affected: Website (Website (unauthed))
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Oct 15, 2026, 01:30 AM UTC

    Website (unauthed) cannot be reached by our automated monitoring.

  2. resolved Oct 15, 2026, 01:37 AM UTC

    Website (unauthed) is operational again.

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Major October 15, 2026

[Automated] Website (authed) was inaccessible

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 15, 2026, 01:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 15, 2026, 01:36 AM UTC
Duration
5m
Affected: Website (Website (authed))
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Oct 15, 2026, 01:30 AM UTC

    Website (authed) cannot be reached by our automated monitoring.

  2. resolved Oct 15, 2026, 01:36 AM UTC

    Website (authed) is operational again.

Read the full incident report →