Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by johncolanduoni » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

immibis wrote: post #21

Jsmith4523 wrote: post #19

You know what, maybe AI is taking all the goddamn jobs

They pretty much said this. All the big companies that had recent outages are companies that publicly embraced vibe coding.

All the big companies embraced vibe coding, so I’m not sure there was a natural experiment here.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by Poudlardo » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:18 AM UTC

JoeWiltshire wrote: post #11

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

haha this website actually is useful

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by johncolanduoni » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:19 AM UTC

tietjens wrote: post #35

f311a wrote: post #33

> A change made to how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests caused Cloudflare's network to be unavailable for several minutes this morning. This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.

does this mean we can blame React Server Components for something new?

I always suspected RSC was actually a secret Facebook plan to sabotage the React ecosystem now that their competitors all use it to some degree. Now I’m convinced.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by huflungdung » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:20 AM UTC

johncolanduoni wrote: post #39

dtf wrote: post #37

Edinburgh Airport is also down, suspending all flights after an "IT issue with our air traffic control provider". Not sure if this is coincidental, but the timing is rather suspicious!

Maybe the little plane icons on the ATC screens are a PNG hosted on some Cloudflare domain.

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Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by zombot » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:21 AM UTC

JoeWiltshire wrote: post #11

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

I always wondered who detects when downdetector.com is down.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by johncolanduoni » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:21 AM UTC

JoeWiltshire wrote: post #11

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

We need a set of down detectors that all detect if each other are down, and produce an answer via quorum.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by ivanbalepin » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:21 AM UTC

Jsmith4523 wrote: post #19

You know what, maybe AI is taking all the goddamn jobs

if this is referring to Cloudflare, they are not yet particularly known for any major non-sales layoffs, ai or not.

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by yatralalala » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:22 AM UTC

Internet is no longer decenstralised.

Some interesting DNS data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159249

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by rozenmd » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:23 AM UTC

JoeWiltshire wrote: post #11

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

guess that explains the random spike in people searching downdetector in OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=RlByu...

Re: Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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Post by zombot » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 10:24 AM UTC

klas_segeljakt wrote: post #24

JoeWiltshire wrote: post #11

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

It's downdetectors all the way down

Is that the same as "All downdetectors are down"?