Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, why would it ruin it?
It’s a frequently used metaphor in LLM responses.
Often for trivial things that LLM is proud that it has noticed but bear no load whatsoever.
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?
#462Think 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.
Compared with ChatGPT, those services have a minuscule amount of users. It shouldn’t be surprising that a ChatGPT outage causes Claude and others to go down.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#463Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#464Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#465Cloudflare, 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/
Yes, but is it a load-bearing seam?
Honestly, this is worth looking at — with one caveat.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#466Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#467Cloudflare, 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/
my money is on DNS
there is a haiku about this
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#468Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#469Cloudflare, 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/
The internet is not supposed to work like this. The network was designed for robustness and fault tolerance, which allows it to reroute data if parts of the network fail.
Why are we all depending on one entity for it all to work? Makes me mad.