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Uptime, 24 hours
100 %
Uptime, 7 days
100 %
Uptime, 30 days
100 %

Based on 1 day of checks so far. Checks that failed because of how we test, not because of the site, are left out.

Response time, last 24 hours

2026-10-09 08:27 UTC: 473 ms2026-10-09 08:37 UTC: 478 ms2026-10-09 08:47 UTC: 474 ms2026-10-09 08:58 UTC: 479 ms2026-10-09 09:08 UTC: 478 ms2026-10-09 09:24 UTC: 470 ms2026-10-09 09:39 UTC: 485 ms2026-10-09 09:54 UTC: 632 ms2026-10-09 10:09 UTC: 471 ms2026-10-09 10:25 UTC: 478 ms2026-10-09 10:40 UTC: 477 ms2026-10-09 10:55 UTC: 473 ms2026-10-09 11:11 UTC: 480 ms
Green: response time, full height at 720 ms or more. Red: down. Amber: not confirmed.

Response time by location, last 24 hours

LocationAverage responseReached
Berlin 1, Germany488 ms13 of 13 checks
Falkenstein, Germany488 ms13 of 13 checks
Berlin 2, Germany490 ms13 of 13 checks

Each check runs from all locations at once. A location far from the site’s servers answers later; that says nothing about the site being slow.

Outage history

No confirmed outage on record. An outage is listed once Hacker News could not be reached from at least two locations in two checks in a row.

Recent checks

TimeStatusLocationsResponse
2026-10-09 11:11 UTCUp3 of 3480 ms
2026-10-09 10:55 UTCUp3 of 3473 ms
2026-10-09 10:40 UTCUp3 of 3477 ms
2026-10-09 10:25 UTCUp3 of 3478 ms
2026-10-09 10:09 UTCUp3 of 3471 ms
2026-10-09 09:54 UTCUp3 of 3632 ms
2026-10-09 09:39 UTCUp3 of 3485 ms
2026-10-09 09:24 UTCUp3 of 3470 ms

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