Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by knaik94 » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

Youtube-dl is also not working surprisingly. It's crazy how I still assumed it was my network and not youtube. Speaks to how much I depend and rely on youtube being available as a staple in my life. For me the error just says webpage is unavailable. I am in NJ so east coast has a large outage probably.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#112

Post by JonasJSchreiber » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

Yep, that's what I'm seeing. I also came directly to HN to see if others were, and this is the top thread. Well done HN!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#113

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

Scoundreller wrote: post #68

Can Netflix handle the extra load? Haha.

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by mablae » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

Maybe related to the #libssl CVE ?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by Escapado » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

corodra wrote: post #102

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

RandomGuyDTB wrote: post #86

DoreenMichele wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"On HN, of course."

"And why were you not offline?" (continuing song lyrics i think we're making)

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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by ethbro » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

apetresc wrote: post #80

Interestingly, my youtube-dl archiving script is still chugging along with only a handful of elevated retry rates. So whatever the problem is, it's probably not at the API or CDN layers.

Both m.youtube.com & the mobile app are down.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by helalctgbd » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

Here in bangladesh too... YouTube not working ... very surprising ...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#119

Post by ggregoire » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

Any idea how much money they are going to lose?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

#120

Post by grawprog » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

I get a 503 network error on the mobile app from western canada right now. NewPipe will complete searches but gives a content not found error on trying to load a video.