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Response Time History
Recent Activity (7 days)
Response time has been trending slower lately — 737ms on average now, versus 502ms earlier in the week.
- Went from down to upAug 23, 2026, 1:59 AM
- Went from up to downAug 23, 2026, 1:08 AM
About Hacker News
- Website
- news.ycombinator.com
- Category
- Social Media
- Monitored from
- EU (Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam)
- Check interval
- Every 5 minutes
- Monitoring since
- March 30, 2026 (148 days, 6,036 checks)
How we measure this: checks run from EU servers only, so a result here reflects what the EU sees, not a global view. A regional outage, CDN edge-cache issue, or bot/WAF protection that treats our monitoring probe differently than a real visitor can all cause this to disagree with Hacker News's own status page — that's a limitation of any third-party checker, not just this one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Hacker News down right now?
Hacker News is currently up and running. Our last check from EU servers showed a response time of 484ms with 99.87% uptime over the past 148 days.
What is Hacker News's uptime?
Hacker News has a 99.87% uptime measured over 148 days, based on 6,036 checks from Vartio's EU monitoring servers located in Helsinki, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam.
How do I check if Hacker News is down?
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