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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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The 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.

brilliant!

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

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post #314

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/

Sounds just like the fantastical nonsense that comes out of Lesswrong.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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They simply shared their experience. I would’ve thought it’s a full-blown outage, but clearly not. You stepped in the room real stinky here. What’s with the attitude?

No, they didn't "simply share their experience", they explicitly negated the scale of the issue in their opening statement, only because it works for them. So they claim "impact isn't too big" based on their personal anecdotal evidence of sample size literally 1.

> full-blown outage, but clearly not.

Again, based on a SINGLE report?

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/

what's updog?

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

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post #281

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…

> cascading overload I'd bet more on this. For one none of the coding tools have exponential backoff on retries

They must do, surely? I've been vibe coding my own harness, in particular for use with Ox Alpha. The 429 downtime when Ox Alpha was at the height of popularity quickly gave me a refresher crash course on backoff strategies, like adding jitter to the backoff. At least the major harnesses must have exponential backoff & jitter?

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

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post #281

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…

I think is just people restarting conversations from last day when they start work, that's why I think claude goes down almost every monday and why openai reset usage on weekends so poweruser code during non business hours

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

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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?

Actually it said "Beware of the Leopard".
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