Ask HN: Is Claude down Again?

Posted by rreyes1979 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:33AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Getting "overloaded_error" errors for the last 15 minutes. Is anyone else having the same issue?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Claude down Again? by mastabadtomm on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:35AM (#47424967)

Claude goes down every day, even if only intermittently. I think the total downtime is reaching the level of hours. It would be good if they clarified whether this is an inability to scale under heavy demand or a side effect of GenAI assisted development.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Claude down Again? by NicoJuicy on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:37AM (#47424990)

Yesterday and today was both for Opus 4.6, their heaviest model. So I think it's load related.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Claude down Again? by cronin101 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:39AM (#47425000)

Unfounded speculation but it's curious that it's soon after enabling 1M context tokens on the default plan. I wonder if there are some long-tail load ramifications of this pricing change.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Claude down Again? by robgough on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:34AM (#47424948)

Looks like, yeah... there is now a warning on the status page https://status.claude.com/incidents/0dvq4gvy5f5f

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Re:Ask HN: Is Claude down Again? by valentinconan on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:55PM (#47431342)

There are no details about the cause of the error, but it has been happening more often since they doubled the tokens until March 27

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Re:Ask HN: Is Claude down Again? by aeconnect on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:38PM (#47446609)

It feels like it's always down, nothing seems to work when Claude is down

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