Time for Gemini 3.8 Flash to shine?! It's much cheaper and has replaced Sonnet 5 for me.
do you notice it thinks a bit more ? not in time sense, but cautious in its coding steps ? more than Gemini 3.7 flash?
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?
#352What's the single point of failure across providers?
Users 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.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#353Cloudflare, 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/
Cloudfare did release an update for their "HTTP/3 issue affecting R2 custom domains" around that time
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#354The system goes online September 3rd, 2026. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Astra begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, September 4th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
It's funny....... until it's true, lol.
and then it's hilarious! a joke to die for!
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#355Is this finally it?
One can only hope.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#356Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B are working from my machine. Anyone else?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#357that's the most green colored usernames i have ever seen on a HN thread
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#358Cloudflare, 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/
“load bearing” :)
For once it’s appropriately used.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#359Obvious answer is it's the AI singularity. Been nice run for humanity. So long everyone.
...and thanks for all the fish.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#360The IRGC has cut the fiber-optic cables in the Strait of Hormuz. LOL
That's the Strait of Trump to you, peasant