Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by efskap » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

juujian wrote: post #366

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.

This is like the Bronze Age collapse when city-states fell one by one to displaced demand, under the refugee interpretation of the Sea Peoples.

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

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Post by rescbr » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

frollogaston wrote: post #433

aNapierkowski wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLMs (at least Claude) tends to overuse that significantly

Oh, so like "honest" and "ratchet." Oh well, it'll choose different words to overuse later.

I'm getting "spike" for a while now, and just found out the newest word which is "gauntlet".

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

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Post by codechicago277 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC

moomin wrote: post #414

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/

Yes, but is it a load-bearing seam?

I need to take a step back.

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

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Post by BrokenCogs » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

hirako2000 wrote: post #430

BrokenCogs wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://i.imgur.com/S6aEhrI.png

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

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Post by subw00f » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

Flere-Imsaho wrote: post #469

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/

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.

Oh boy, the internet is anything but what it was supposed to be. I can't really bring myself to remember without feeling bad about it. The centralization, the power of certain businesses, the surveillance, dark patterns everywhere. Hell, you catch people simping for billionaires and asking, "Is that legal?" to scraping posts. Here. In HACKER news. So yeah. Depressing.

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

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Post by seanw444 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

Flere-Imsaho wrote: post #469

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/

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.

Because more fasterer and more cheaperer.

I hope Reticulum gains traction.

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

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Post by vecter » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #411

Boring answer – all these services are individually down a lot, and the downtimes were bound to sync up. Similar to the pendulum synchronization effect.

The pendulum synchronization effect is the opposite of your claim. It has a physical causal reason for why pendulums become synchronized. Your claim is that it was random and independent.

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

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Post by 2PqboPPmKegvanx » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

ChatGPT having issues across every component (except FedRAMP)

Ads Platform? still in the green with no incidents.

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

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Post by pineaux » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:38 PM UTC

cedws wrote: post #402

RC_ITR wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Part of the epstein class, dont forget.

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

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Post by SkyeCA » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

quotemstr wrote: post #382

oersted wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

It doesn't have to ruin it for you, but people are going to assume comments with it are AI generated.