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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?

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Post by bayindirh »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #530
pampas wrote: post #506

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hang on — I can apply a double tracked fix to the load bearing path, gated by provenance.

Great plan. I'll slop together a GUI for it in visual basic real quick.

It's not only a great plan. It's a turning point in history.

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

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Post by robertlagrant »

cloudfudge wrote: post #481
JohnMakin wrote: post #465

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Honestly, this is worth looking at — with one caveat.

That's on me. I've been giving confident advice that doesn't hold up in practice.

That aligns with your goals of analysing problems, admitting fault and surfacing that through use of clear and concise language. Not just simply wrong — this screams finessed, nuanced, polished communication after an understandable mistake discovered through pressure-tested interlocution.

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

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Post by johnnyApplePRNG »

hnlmorg wrote: post #522
johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #512

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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

Nobody is swapping out Claude for Grok, bro.

Nobody.

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

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Post by d3Xt3r »

JensenTorp wrote: post #516
efskap wrote: post #471

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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.

Interesting, I had not heard of this theory.

The Sea Peoples were only a part of the reason, the other reasons included climate change, volcanic eruptions, disease etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

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

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Post by patcon »

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?

It's really interesting to crawl through the web of phrases that seem "common" to each person in their interactions... I suspect if one were to get to the more niche "meme" phrases that people encounter, it starts to say more about the sort of person the LLM assumes it's speaking to, and perhaps something about their psychological profile...

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

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Post by folkrav »

RC_ITR wrote: post #483
pixl97 wrote: post #391

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I mean, you're not wrong, but by that logic we were done for even before we had digital computers.

And isn't that the great lesson of AI? The things we say publicly actually do matter and the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?

Oh come on. It's also trained on fiction work. Shall we refrain from posting sci-fi stories too, now that we're there, just in case the AI might want to try it out?
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