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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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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.

It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.

I did, for stuff i do in cursor.

i also finally installed opencode and switched its model to muse 1.3

both are decent.

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

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post #334

Cloudflare, 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/

Not really. The impact isn't as big too - Codex for example did not stop working for me. https://updog.ai/

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

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Well no one said it yet so I will, "international actors" is at least a possibility. And I don't mean any specific country because pretty much anyone is a potential these days, which makes it a perfect cover for different anyones. Demonstrating vulnerability in the US's AI boom can move the markets. That's a financial incentive and a strong geopolitical one. More likely just cascading overload though: "Never attribut…

Except that the stock market is up today

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

#364

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.

It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.

Or that Gemini is built to handle massive load spikes, and/or has a ton of excess capacity

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

#365

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.

This is what Tibo posted on twitter in response

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

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post #313

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.

Don't forget that there are a ton of tools out there that will automatically fall back in case of outage

E.g. say you chose Sol as your default in Cursor, but Opus is your 2nd choice, it's going to give up on Sol after a few tries and switch to Opus

Or you have copilot code reviews set up, and it falls back

Etc

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

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post #334

Cloudflare, 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/

Will the post-mortem reveal they all relied on a service running on a Macbook in a break room with a "Do not turn off" sign taped to it?

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

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Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B are working from my machine. Anyone else?

They mysteriously stopped working on my machine and the LEDs on the GPUs are blinking with a weird colour. There's also a strange smell emanating from them. I'm still investigating.

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

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post #334

Cloudflare, 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/

Not really. The impact isn't as big too - Codex for example did not stop working for me. https://updog.ai/

oh well, if it is working for you, then we are saved.
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