Good opportunity for a Natural Experiment to study the productivity impact of LLMs.
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?
#332Somebody in another thread said gastown and wheelhouse automatically move to the next provider if one fails.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#333Think 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.
Google stopped putting so much money into SOTA models. All the hype has migrated. I was also frankly turned off when I got a popup from Gemein said I would either have to pay or have my conversations used for training. This may have always been true for other providers but when I declined, Gemini stopped remembering my conversations and that definitely made me move out.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#334Cloudflare, 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/
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#335Good. Now to see what frauds are unable to work.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#336Cloud is just other peoples computers - they can and will go down as well.
And even worse if its just a few computers run by a few people - as they will bring down many others depending on them.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.
Google stopped putting so much money into SOTA models. All the hype has migrated. I was also frankly turned off when I got a popup from Gemein said I would either have to pay or have my conversations used for training. This may have always been true for other providers but when I declined, Gemini stopped remembering my conversations and that definitely made me move out.
Gemini 3.8 which just came out sounds like it's very good and a great deal though.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#338Not just these three. OP mentions also Cloudflare, and additionally Downdetector also has AWS, Azure, and Google (both search and Gemini) listed as having spikes about the same time: https://downdetector.com/
The problem with the down detector main reporting page is that all of the graphs are scaled to the same size. The OpenAI spike was nearly 40,000 and the Google spike was just over 100 (just over 400 for Gemini). They look the same in the reporting page.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#339What's the single point of failure across providers?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#340It's always DNS