Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://xkcd.com/2347/ Nebraska man retired
Maybe a three-line npm package sneezed.
Maybe .unwrap()
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?
#492Can check all services in one hit at https://upsy.sh/openai,anthropic,xai
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#493Cloudflare, 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?
Someone probably set it to "magic", when everyone knows its supposed to be set to "more magic".
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#494Think 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.
It could also mean that Google can absorb essentially unlimited demand spikes by load shedding.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#495Cloudflare, 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/
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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#496They all took PTO at the same time to go to Burning Man together where they will present “HumanGPT” an artistic exploration that condenses all of human experience down to a single drop of lemonade to be consumed by the main shaman…
mask comes off
“No! It’s the maniacal Dr. Zuckerberg! He’s gonna drink the last drop of human experience! Somebody save usss!”
Tom Anderson comes back from the dead as the second coming of Jesus uniting all faiths under 1 commandment: Profiles will be customizable with CSS again. If you implement this, all good things will follow.
Wow thanks Tom. I love you
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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#497What 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/
The AI is getting bad morals from listening to that dreadful rock and roll
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#498Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'd be funny if this is true because that'd prolly mean nobody is touching Gemini even as a fallback.
Google stopped putting so much money into SOTA models. All the hype has migrated. I was also frankly turned off when I got a popup from Gemein said I would either have to pay or have my conversations used for training. This may have always been true for other providers but when I declined, Gemini stopped remembering my conversations and that definitely made me move out.
Gemini said that?
Gemini is what I mostly use (good enough, basically free - or massively generous free limits, and to me Google as a company is a LOT less objectionable than all the US-based alternatives), but I don't recall it ever saying that.
OTOH, my basic assumption online is that there is no privacy, and free AI in exchange for acknowledged lack of privacy seems fair enough.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#499Cloudflare, 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.
We're back to aol #keyword internet gatekeeping
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#500What 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/
They could filter what they train on if they wanted to - they just don't want to.