Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved • Hacker News Board

heipei wrote: post #73

Can we please stop posting here every time Claude or OpenAI are down? These are not critical services like AWS / S3 where downtime means that your application is offline. Nothing is easier than switching to another provider, mid-session even.

No this whole thread is such a nice thing to happen. It's like the lights are out on your building and you're joking about it with your neighbors when you're all just waiting for it to come back. But on a gigantic scale.

I love how people can share moments even though they are not close to each other physically at all. Imagine the cats outside could somehow connect with the cats in the other side of the world. No other animals can do this. Maybe whales, it depends how you define connect.

We are just gifted to live in such times.

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by stri8ted » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

phendrenad2 wrote: post #135

anloutfi wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun

I was half expecting that page to just keep scrolling and generating more.

Same

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by winterbourne » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

anloutfi wrote: post #109

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun

Nice! But needs more footgun.

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by stri8ted » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

tolugenius wrote: post #12

Depending on how long and bad this is, I wonder what the post mortem will reveal as the cause.

Demand > supply

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by winrid » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

seizethecheese wrote: post #28

Flirting with one 9 of reliability http://status.claude.com/

They can still target four nines (0.9999)

Re: Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved

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Post by Sivart13 » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

yard2010 wrote: post #114

hmokiguess wrote: post #27

I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.

Wait, is this the honest take? I can't tell because you didn't explicitly said so

when I retire I'm opening a bar for AI Agents called The Honest Caveat