What about a hard-takeoff scenario of an unleashed OpenAI Astra taking other models down for computational resources control?
My favourite theory so far.
And then a local swarm noticed and disagreed and took it down.
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#372Cloudflare, 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/
Will the post-mortem reveal they all relied on a service running on a Macbook in a break room with a "Do not turn off" sign taped to it?
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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#373Cloudflare, 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/
Will the post-mortem reveal they all relied on a service running on a Macbook in a break room with a "Do not turn off" sign taped to it?
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#374Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will the post-mortem reveal they all relied on a service running on a Macbook in a break room with a "Do not turn off" sign taped to it?
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Evidently it annoyed you enough to create one too. Remember, guys, there's one more day until Friday!
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#375Users perceiving the products as largely interchangeable and quickly DDoS'ing the other providers when one is down. So much for the possibility of a moat.
I have a feeling this is part of it, especially when you consider how many services let you use any of many available AI providers.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#376Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.
It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.
Someone noted Gemini was also having issues in another thread.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#377Didn't SpaceX overbuilt infra and leases it out Anthropic? I f their dc goes down it probably takes a chunk out of Claude's capacity before even considering the flood of users switching over
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#378Traffic rerouting through NSA had a hiccup…
Room 641A is being cleaned, but we'll hold your bags for you.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#379Well no one said it yet so I will, "international actors" is at least a possibility. And I don't mean any specific country because pretty much anyone is a potential these days, which makes it a perfect cover for different anyones. Demonstrating vulnerability in the US's AI boom can move the markets. That's a financial incentive and a strong geopolitical one. More likely just cascading overload though: "Never attribut…
Everyone is leasing datacenter space from some of Grok, Google, and Amazon aren't they? If it's hardware or DC level disruption I'm not too surprised it can affect multiple providers.
Also it's likely that more than one model use is common.
Amazon starts going slow so some percentage switches to Google, some switch to Grok, now all of them are slow.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Evidently it annoyed you enough to create one too. Remember, guys, there's one more day until Friday!
Friday is when the janitors come by with the floor polishers and plug them into the same socket as the Macbook.
They are not taking the blame this time!