Is Hacker News down?

No reported issues

From hn.hund.io · checked 4 minutes ago · every 5 minutes

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As of 12:50 UTC on 13 November 2026, Hacker News's status page reports no issues. Its last reported problem was on 30 October 2026: “Website is down”, critical, for 5 min from 21:06 UTC.

Last problem: 30 Oct · 5 min
Problems, last 30 days: 135 (57 critical)
Typical incident: 5 min
Longest in 90 days: 46 min · 28 Oct

Uptime

Hacker News, last 30 days

97.46 %

Oct 15 Today

Biggest dip: Hacker News, 46 min of critical on Oct 28.

Incidents

Started in the last 7 days

SSMTWTToday

This week Week before

No incidents this week. The last one: Hacker News, critical on Oct 30.

Recovery

Median time back online

5 min

30 days ago Today

135 of 135 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.

Components 4

All online

Hacker News 4 parts

Website
Authentication
Firebase API
Algolia Search

Last 90 days

136 incidents in 46 days tracked · no reported issues 98.4% of the time · typical incident 5 min

Aug 16 Today (UTC)

Recent incidents

Times in UTC

Oct 30
· 21:06
Critical
Website is down 5 min
Oct 30
· 20:56
Critical
Website is down 5 min
Oct 30
· 20:36
Critical
Website is down and 1 more 10 min
Oct 30
· 20:21
Issue
Website is degraded 5 min
Oct 30
· 19:46
Issue
Website is degraded 5 min
Oct 30
· 19:36
Issue
Website is degraded 5 min
Oct 30
· 19:21
Critical
Website is down 5 min
Oct 30
· 19:06
Issue
Website is degraded 10 min
Oct 30
· 18:51
Issue
Website is degraded 10 min
Oct 30
· 18:26
Critical
Website is degraded and 1 more 15 min

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Where this comes from

Stackpulse reads Hacker News’s official status page at hn.hund.io every 5 minutes and keeps 90 days of what changed. We don’t test Hacker News ourselves, so a problem shows here once Hacker News reports it.

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