ChatGPT outage – Resolved • Hacker News Board

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Post by bogzz » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

putlake wrote: post #22

It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!

I expect that this will be Dwarkesh Patel's take.

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Post by ab71e5 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #24

wasting_time wrote: post #16

They are having a massive surge because Claude is down.

That makes no sense, they should be able to host chatgpt.com regardless and just say "Sorry, we're at capacity" or something instead of hard 404

Yeah who wrote that website? Oh right

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Post by nprateem » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

Can anyone remember what we used to do at work before AI coding was a thing?

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

putlake wrote: post #22

It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!

Gemini is down too.

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Post by embedding-shape » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #24

wasting_time wrote: post #16

They are having a massive surge because Claude is down.

That makes no sense, they should be able to host chatgpt.com regardless and just say "Sorry, we're at capacity" or something instead of hard 404

Distributed systems are hard. For all we know, this could be the error code returned by some DNS service that is down because of load and a proxy cannot find the records, so 404 makes sense, or whatever. Systems like these don't always have a easy point in the infrastructure that can ALWAYS respond correctly no matter what.