2025: The year of the global cloud outage
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Hacker News (Social news platform for tech and startup enthusiasts) is a a Social Media and News solution that StatusGator has been monitoring since December 2025. Over the past 2 months, we have collected data on on outages that affected Hacker News users. When Hacker News publishes downtime on their status page, they do so across 1 component using 3 different statuses: up, warn, and down which we use to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.
If you're wondering, "Is Hacker News down?", or need to know its current status, we've got you covered. Our platform tracks every reported outage, performance issue, and maintenance window to ensure you're informed. Whether Hacker News is experiencing a problem now or has recently resolved one, our detailed history keeps you updated.
Many StatusGator users monitor Hacker News to get notified when it's down or has an outage. You can get alerts by signing up for a free StatusGator account.
If we detect a potential Hacker News outage or other issue before it was reported on the official status page we will send an Early Warning Signal notification to StatusGator subscribers. We can often detect issues before they are officially acknowledged by the provider, giving you a head start on resolving any potential problems.
If Hacker News is having system outages or experiencing other critical issues, red down notifications appear on the status page. In most cases, it means that core functions are not working properly, or there is some other serious customer-impacting event underway.
Warn notifications are used when Hacker News is undergoing a non-critical issue like minor service issues, performance degradation, non-core bugs, capacity issues, or problems affecting a small number of users.
Hacker News does not post separate notifications for planned maintenance work so we are unable to send notifications when maintenance windows begin. If you need Hacker News maintenance notifications, please email us.
When Hacker News posts issues on their status page, we collect the main headline message and include that brief information or overview in notifications to StatusGator subscribers.
At this time, we do not collect detailed status updates from the Hacker News status page. If you need this capability, please be sure to reach out.
Because Hacker News has several components, each with their individual statuses, StatusGator can differentiate the status of each component in our notifications to you whenever a particular component is down. This means, you can filter your status page notifications based on the services, regions, or components you utilize. This is an essential feature for complex services with many components or services spread out across many regions.
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