Can confirm. I keep getting an error "Authentication service was unavailable. You can try again." However, logging out and trying to log in I just get the same issue.
This is why I'm local first. Local models are getting pretty capable for most tasks. I just worry AI companies are colluding to make hardware more expensive and force everyone on the cloud, but then this stuff will happen and worse.
The effect of the current sudden burst of extreme market demand from entities with very deep pockets for (GPU, RAM, SSD storage, etc) seems to be indistinguishable from the point of view of the small end user to market collusion. Standing up something like a new DRAM fab is an incredibly expensive proposition that takes years to do.
Same. I am here in California, and I get the same "Authentication service was unavailable." Then I get redirected to a page that shows "Claude is temporarily unavailable."
Stoked that AI is in a place we have legitimate options available!
Claude is temporarily unavailable. We’re working on it — try again in a moment.
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The desktop app shows:
Unable to load usage limits. Please try again later.
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Claude Code shows:
You've hit your monthly spend limit.
> You've hit your org's monthly spend limit · run /usage-credits to ask your admin for a higher limit
I'm paranoid enough to have the thought that it's shills trying to use HN's "hotness" downranking against negative publicity...
... maybe I'm too paranoid, but it feels like this outage has a lot more totally useless comments than normal.
I mean, there are some egregious examples.
"oh noo", twice.
"Hello!", being another..
Along with one new account asking "which local LLM is better"... twice.