Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Actually it said "Beware of the Leopard".
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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?
#522Users 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.
Except that nobody has a grok subscription so that makes zero sense.
I know you meant this as a joke, but enough people might be using a routing service like openrouter.ai
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#523Cloudflare - I had to switch DNS away from them yesterday.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#524Gilfoyle's AI deleted all software!
No more bugs!
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#525Cloudflare, 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?
It's a load-bearing poster.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#526My theory is that they all use the same server. The same mind.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#527Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's also easier to understand. For the internet to be fault tolerant you have to get rid of CDNs and assume everyone needs the same thing. That's more expensive than a centralized "internet" which relies on CDNs and fiber paths exclusive to the regions with most demand. Everything has been optimized for throughput for what is determined to be important, not rare fault tolerance
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#528Cloudflare, 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?
May need to be fail-closed.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#529Cloudflare, 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/
Cloudflare CTO claims that it's not them https://x.com/dok2001/status/2095538619603628388?s=46&t=ec6p...