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Ask HN: Is OpenAI down? Nonstop 429s on pro subscription

Hacker News user srcreigh posted an Ask HN thread reporting that OpenAI's service has produced repeated HTTP 429 rate-limit errors on a paid Pro subscription over the past few days, causing agent sessions to fail during several periods. The post, submitted 36 minutes before the page was captured, had drawn 1 point and 1 comment at the time, and no OpenAI response or official outage confirmation is included in the source.

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| | | 1 point by srcreigh36 minutes ago |hide |past |favorite |1 comment | | | | The past few days I’ve had several periods where agent sessions constantly fail with 429s. |

source & further reading
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