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Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]

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sscaryterry · 1790376808 · focus · HN ↗
Friday afternoon in the US I guess, perfect time for things to go wrong.
1. killingtime74 · 1790377434 · focus · HN ↗
  Looks like someone at OpenAI did a Friday afternoon deployment lol
2. edoceo · 1790379239 · focus · HN ↗
  Excellent work all around, take the rest of the week off.
pavelmelnichuk · 1790376907 · focus · HN ↗
thank god I'm not the only one, pulling my hair out hitting ctrl+z ... Happy Friday I guess
rvz · 1790376932 · focus · HN ↗
Codex took an unannounced early day off for the weekend. It happens.
killingtime74 · 1790376982 · focus · HN ↗
I thought I got banned.
1. ynac · 1790377595 · focus · HN ↗
  Cool - what were you working on!
  1. ssl-3 · 1790378535 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
    Razengan · 1790379304 · focus · HN ↗
    Watching the trailer for Megaton Rainfall on repeat: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecKu1_O54U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecKu1_O54U
    ynac · 1790383233 · focus · HN ↗
    Leveraging the Ai for a Denon telnet / HTTP integration to help guests watch a DVD or the radio without my help : )
  2. killingtime74 · 1790378683 · focus · HN ↗
    Just a 3D render of a rocket. So I thought it was safe.
    copperx · 1790378744 · focus · HN ↗
    China rocket? You are.
    killingtime74 · 1790379251 · focus · HN ↗
    Hehe. Next. Now just the falcon 9
statenjason · 1790377087 · focus · HN ↗
It’s my sign to touch grass.
1. copperx · 1790378769 · focus · HN ↗
  You mean burn?
  1. darepublic · 1790379221 · focus · HN ↗
    praise the, grass!
nezhar · 1790377462 · focus · HN ↗
A good time for reading
1. dang · 1790378752 · focus · HN ↗
  Or switching to Claude
  1. dingnuts · 1790379118 · focus · HN ↗
    [dead]
  2. prtmnth · 1790379589 · focus · HN ↗
    I switched to Claude. Opus 5.5 was causing fomo anyway. This was the trigger. I admit I have zero loyalty
elisbce · 1790377969 · focus · HN ↗
Somebody really wanted to cross one off the weekly TODO list :)
theuri · 1790378168 · focus · HN ↗
I'm seeing this locally (on the desktop MacOS app): unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Incorrect API key provided
1. binsquare · 1790385216 · focus · HN ↗
  Good thing they don't promise SLA's.
dingdong2026 · 1790378216 · focus · HN ↗
At last someone ffin noticed! I've observed it for at least an hour before the announcement.
So much for status reporting from openai. Must have been vibe coded.
OutOfHere · 1790378319 · focus · HN ↗
It easily took over 15 minutes of it being down for it to even register on the status page. The status page showed fake green for this long. This is as verified by myself and by many users on Reddit r/codex who have timed posts and comments. It is a scam.
If Reddit is more useful than a status page, then what good is a status page? A lie is a lie. 15 minutes can cause someone to reinstall their entire software stack as is documented on this page. For the sites I administer, I have immediate reporting, and I have never had a false alert.
1. esikich · 1790380471 · focus · HN ↗
  Sounds like you've never worked in Ops. Having immediate triggers for outages will absolutely flood you with useless alerts. 15 minutes is pretty normal before alerting as there are a zillion unsolvable intermittent issues (and non issues) that can cause a loss of connection to things.
  1. decremental · 1790381034 · focus · HN ↗
    [dead]
  2. OutOfHere · 1790440137 · focus · HN ↗
    On the contrary, what you're doing is "ops theater", not real ops. If you were doing real ops, you most definitely wouldn't have tolerances exceeding 3*2 = 6 minutes. People like you cost the organization customers. You've no idea how many people switch to a competitor due to your mis-ops.
    esikich · 1790454797 · focus · HN ↗
    I'm sorry but you clearly don't know what you're talking about. It can take 10 or more minutes to even verify your signal is correct.
woodruffw · 1790378625 · focus · HN ↗
It's on the status page: <a href="https://status.openai.com" rel="nofollow">https://status.openai.com
1. minimaxir · 1790379274 · focus · HN ↗
  Clickable incident link: <a href="https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA39" rel="nofollow">https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...
  1. dang · 1790379332 · focus · HN ↗
    Thanks - I put that in the toptext too.
Razengan · 1790379116 · focus · HN ↗
inb4 Aeon
slics · 1790379121 · focus · HN ↗
What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models? Anyone even considers using their locally hosted models in order to finish their work? Do you trust your local models to do any of you outstanding work? Do we even understand the code anymore to manually fix anything?
1. KronisLV · 1790379339 · focus · HN ↗
  > What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models?
  Grab a different one, unlike GitHub being down, there's far less of a moat and you can swap out Codex for Claude Code pretty easily. Or any other provider and yes including local models, though it depends on how good the ones you can run locally are.
  > Do we even understand the code anymore to manually fix anything?
  Assuming you are not 100% vibe coding, you should! If you are vibe coding, then you should still be able to read the code and understand it regardless, it's just code. Whether it's worth your time to do that and work manually or not, that's a different question.
2. solarkraft · 1790379342 · focus · HN ↗
  Same plan as for a power outage: Go outside (hacker news), chat with your neighbors and wait.
3. _alphageek · 1790379371 · focus · HN ↗
  I remember the days when Stack Overflow would go down. People would actually start seeing each other's faces in the office kitchen.
4. belen007 · 1790379393 · focus · HN ↗
  [dead]
5. [deleted] · 1790379428 · focus · HN ↗
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6. greenowl · 1790379456 · focus · HN ↗
  If the excavator breaks down on a job site does the operator get out, grab a shovel, and start digging?
  1. Razengan · 1790379653 · focus · HN ↗
    Or when it rains, do the farmers keep farming?
    ikidd · 1790461870 · focus · HN ↗
    We just fix the shit we broke while we could farm.
  2. gchamonlive · 1790382136 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
  3. piloto_ciego · 1790386628 · focus · HN ↗
    To any of the people unsure (because like so many people in tech they've probably never worked with or around an excavator) the answer is, "they do not."
7. vineyardmike · 1790379483 · focus · HN ↗
  > What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models
  Honestly an outage on a Friday is perfect. Clean up your inbox, get to the small tasks you’ve neglected and go home early.
8. furyofantares · 1790379721 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]
9. serf · 1790381609 · focus · HN ↗
  I was worried somewhat until it become really apparent that small models that run locally can handle 99% of technical computer crap when given a decent tool set harness and net access.
  so, to answer your question more practically, during this outage a luna agent of mine fell back to a local bonsai 2 model hosted on my desktop, and the work still got done just fine, just took longer.
guluarte · 1790379288 · focus · HN ↗
unrelated but also chatgpt is super buggy, try generating an image, click stop, now wong be able to send another message until you reload, this issue has been there for months
russellbeattie · 1790379345 · focus · HN ↗
I amusingly was doing a "cleanup" of my various harnesses when this happened. Claude Code has a /doctor command which was actually quite helpful, so I decided to swap over to Codex and ask it to do a self-analysis and give me some recommendations if there's something I need to clean up. The response was a connection issue. And so was the next. And the next.
Took me the past 20 minutes to finally check for a status page and realize I hadn't broken something. Not before I created a new project, checked the settings to see my usage numbers, closed and opened the desktop app a couple times, logged out and logged in, used my phone to see if it was a general ChatGPT outage, and generally messing around trying to figure out what I had done.
I mean, you never know... it could have been my prompt that took the whole service down. (Sorry if it was).
treefry · 1790379549 · focus · HN ↗
Nevermind. Switching to Opus 5.5.
jacobgold · 1790379800 · focus · HN ↗
Testing something, can you guys post useless replies like "cool man" or "...okay?"
1. afavour · 1790379828 · focus · HN ↗
  ...okay?
  1. jacobgold · 1790379963 · focus · HN ↗
    So I recommend this approach.
2. platevoltage · 1790381770 · focus · HN ↗
  cool man
  1. jacobgold · 1790381930 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, you should try it. It is cool.
3. ynac · 1790383301 · focus · HN ↗
  Way to go, Ace!
Aboutplants · 1790379877 · focus · HN ↗
They getting ready to release a new model?
ajconway · 1790379919 · focus · HN ↗
It's crazy how fast these things became load-bearing
esikich · 1790379978 · focus · HN ↗
I don't know if related, but a half hour before it fully went down, it was flagging all of my requests as security violations which was bizarre.
mNovak · 1790380000 · focus · HN ↗
Appears to be back online.
nealmueller · 1790380685 · focus · HN ↗
Codex is back
OutOfHere · 1790395282 · focus · HN ↗
It doesn't help that the error message was entirely incorrect, not an accurate reflection of the problem. In reality the user wasn't using any API key whatsoever.
mahi1224 · 1790418606 · focus · HN ↗
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