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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 saejox »

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 was at least another thing worth flagging

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

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Post by conradfr »

HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #447
frollogaston wrote: post #427

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the other way it's used?

I have never seen Claude use this phrase

I got it twice today (it was not even warranted).

Usually for me is when you ask it's opinion about part of the code.

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

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Post by combobyte »

patcon wrote: post #537
moomin wrote: post #414

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

It must be tuned for rage-based engagement because Claude only ever uses the most obnoxious Claudisms on me despite constant reminders to knock it off.

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

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Post by paimapi »

steammaho wrote: post #502

It was so down that my claude desktop app crashed fully that I couldn't restart. And then after uninstall I couldn't install it again. Vibecoded apps are so wonderful in their stability

I love having 13 update reminders pinging me every single day, almost every hour, on the hour

it's so fun and user-friendly

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

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Post by joshstrange »

bornfreddy wrote: post #464
sroussey wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. I am getting Gemini errors now...

They probably broke something on purpose so that they are not left out.

Now I'm just imagining a shared datacenter with Anthropic/Google/OpenAI/SpaceXAI all in the same room and everyone but Google is yelling about things being down, Google looks over at their racks of servers and discretely uses their foot to unplug their section and say "Awww darn! We're down too!".

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

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Post by nvr219 »

martyfunkhouser wrote: post #368
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/

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?

They should've used Greg's Optiplex.

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

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Post by bigbuppo »

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 by re-centralizing everything you're not at a competitive disadvantage if you're down since everyone else is down, too.

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

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Post by fc417fc802 »

bayindirh wrote: post #531
fc417fc802 wrote: post #530

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That was a major oversight on my part. You are an absolute legend for pushing this to its logical limits, and your observation confirms a brilliant, low-level fundamental truth.
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