Tell HN: HN Was Down

uyzstvqs · Dec 18, 2025

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: Hacker News Status - Pages by Hund and Statuspal did not show the outage.
The last post before the outage was The new ChatGPT Images is here [1.5] | Hacker News (1:39:59 PM GMT). The last comment was https://almynotes.com/ running a niche newsletter with focus on system design, a... | Hacker News (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.