God finally showed up and said "ENOUGH!".
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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#342God finally showed up and said "ENOUGH!".
So Gemini was the one who gets into heaven.
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#343Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#344Traffic rerouting through NSA had a hiccup…
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#345Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
Not really. The impact isn't as big too - Codex for example did not stop working for me.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#346Time for Gemini 3.8 Flash to shine?!
It's much cheaper and has replaced Sonnet 5 for me.
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#347What's the single point of failure across providers?
The entire industry runs on IOUs for compute and bills paid in cloud credits, could be anywhere. Could of course also be a a plain old DDoS.
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#348What's the single point of failure across providers?
They all have to rely on each other's LLMs to solve their own internal problems now.
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#349Is this finally it?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#350I assumed it was an AWS outage, and AWS is experiencing problems, but Gemini is also experiencing outages and I assume Google is not using AWS for Gemini.
But, also, Claude has been working fine for me all morning.