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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?

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Post by paxys »

Insanity wrote: post #257

Think 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.

Especially considering memory/gpu/compute are scarce so these services are likely running with very little buffer.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Post by fny »

Insanity wrote: post #257

Think 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.

I find it hard to believe that enough people would flock to from Claude and Chat to Grok to cause an outage. I feel like Gemini is the dominant release valve in this case especially for enterprise.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Post by RC_ITR »

Linello wrote: post #295

What about a hard-takeoff scenario of an unleashed OpenAI Astra taking other models down for computational resources control?

Just a reminder that AI models' actions are reflections of the text humans write and the more we fret and make up doomsday scenarios that we then post online, the more likely a model is to do those things.

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/

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