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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 disqard »

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?

This entire thread is amazing!

It's like a kaleidoscope: Human words --> LLM Training --> chatbot-isms --> lovely parody catch-phrases (and this thread will get ingested soon, and be used to train...)

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

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Post by m11a »

johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #535
hnlmorg wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I did, at least until Fable 5.1. Grok’s models are excellent, amazing price-performance and speed too.

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

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Post by isodev »

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?

You're right to push back. This is bending the leaf on both ends... just my honest take.

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

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Post by ascorbic »

guestuser01 wrote: post #52

Down as well. I noticed my error code ends with "DTW" which is my local Detroit airport. I noticed someone else's comment ended with "ORD" which is a Chicago airport. Anyone else's ending in an airport acronym?

cf-ray is the Cloudflare ray id, which ends with the airport code for the colo that served the response. They're airport codes, but that's just to show the nearest city.

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

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Post by zrobotics »

lossyalgo wrote: post #556
d3Xt3r wrote: post #536

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can anyone recommended any books?

The historian Brett Devreaux did a good summary article earlier this year:

https://acoup.blog/2026/01/30/collections-the-late-bronze-ag...

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

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Post by jazzyjackson »

cobzilla wrote: post #434
quotemstr wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.

I added a specific rule to disallow saying “load bearing”. So Claude is now saying “load handling”

Be sure to avoid asking it to ignore the elephant

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

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Post by tjwebbnorfolk »

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.

Most of the internet continued to work just fine

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

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Post by AIShillsPuke »

joshstrange wrote: post #545
bornfreddy wrote: post #464

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!".

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