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

Post by necovek » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

SkyeCA wrote: post #480

quotemstr wrote: post #382

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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.

Post by mavamaarten » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

Oarch wrote: post #466

graemep wrote: post #441

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You are right, it is. They have now landed a clean fix.

They're saving a memory so this can't happen again.

Post by rdtsc » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

algoth1 wrote: post #413

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/

https://xkcd.com/2347/ Nebraska man retired

Post by aff-vasileva » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

erdos_2 wrote: post #286

Insanity wrote: post #257

Think 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.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

RC_ITR wrote: post #482

cedws wrote: post #402

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

Do you make the claim that AI is something more than a reflection of its training data? I'm curious what other things you would argue influences an LLM's behavior. I am also generally one to trust the claims of the people who train the models, though you're welcome to the highly improbable belief that they operate in a fantasy world.