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

Post by cootsnuck » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

wadayano wrote: post #393

quotemstr wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.

But have we found the seams yet though?

Post by lossolo » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

cromka wrote: post #405

emerongi wrote: post #385

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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?

Post by ipsod » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

MadameMinty wrote: post #420

quotemstr wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.

Wait, why would it ruin it?

Post by frollogaston » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:43 PM UTC

oersted wrote: post #358

kibae wrote: 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/

“load bearing” :) For once it’s appropriately used.

Post by FrustratedMonky » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC