HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
sindresorhus
is-github-down
JavaScript2016–2016
sindresorhus / is-github-down

is-github-down

Check if GitHub is down

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
133GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Check if GitHub is down

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-15 18:08:34 UTC to 2016-03-24 20:32:27 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 152016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 292016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 21

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 152016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 222016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 292016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 72016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 142016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 212016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
Read the rest
ndex.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-url/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/fix-path/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/fn-args/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/fn-name/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/globals/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/imul/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-text-path/blob/master/ind... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-up/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-travis/blob/master/index.... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-video/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-webp/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-archive/blob/master/index... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-admin/blob/master/index.j... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-absolute-url/blob/master/... https://github.com/sindresorhus/ipify/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-url-superb/blob/master/in... https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-tif/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/datetime/leap-year/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/lpad/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/sindresorhus/md5-hex/blob/master/index.js And I ran out of willpower, at only L. Seems to me the complete lack of any decent standard library has caused this Cambrian explosion of packages, and the overhead is astounding. Sure it's appealing to google "nodejs validate ip", then run "npm install is-ip" and use it with "require('is-ip')", but fuck me how wasteful do you want to be. My frontend ember app ends up installing over 500mb of dependencies (most of which is useless test files and other redundant fluff files). How has this happened? What's to stop one of those one line packages adding a malicious one liner that concatenates and uploads your super-secret private source code to somebodies server? You're really trusting the complete integrity of your codebase because you depend on "is-array", because you can't be bothered to write "x.toString() === '[object Array]'", and JS introspection (which seems so (ab)used) is so broken that this is needed? Woah.
In Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
May I just point out how awesome the original author is? I mean, I'm using his GitHub indicator (available as an extension for both Chrome[0] and Firefox[1]), I'm collaborating with him on his mega popular awesome list[2] (currently the top non-code repository on GitHub by the number of stars), he started the whole GitHub AMA idea[3], he developed a bunch of command line clients that I'm using regularly (like speed-test[4], is-reachable[5] and is-github-down[6])... And now this! This guy is unstoppable! [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notifier-for-githu... [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/notifier-for-github-firefox [2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome [3] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama [4] https://github.com/sindresorhus/speed-test [5] https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-reachable [6] https://github.com/sindre
Read the rest
In Refined GitHub: A Chrome extension that simplifies the interface, adds features

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.