It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
Could you expand on this more? It's not clear to me what this is implying.
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?
#632It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
Could you expand on this more? It's not clear to me what this is implying.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#633Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#634It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#635It’s probably the thing that everyone thinks it is. OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI are all routed through something that we’re not supposed to know exists and that thing had a whoopsie.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#636Also, OpenAI is saying what caused it:
> "A routing error starting around 7:43 am PT on Thursday, September 3, made ChatGPT and Codex unavailable for some users across platforms"
Anthropic stated their issue started earlier:
> "The company began alerting about a “partial outage” at 6:23 am PT on Thursday that involved “elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.”
I don't get why everyone reaches for an extraordinary explanation when the ordinary will do: both of these companies have quite a bit of downtime.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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#638Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#639The OpenAI outage lasted only 15 minutes and when it happened everyone started to use the other models which created super heavy load for them. This then cascaded into them all being down. Does this really need an explanation?
I do not believe personally that 1) they can forecast their load that perfectly 2) they chose to remain that inflexible in a world where they are at each others' throats and a single meme can cause bursts of activity.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#640Anthropic: 6:23 am PT.
OpenAI: 7:43 am PT.
Watched it happen. Doesn't look like traffic moving off OpenAI took out the others. Looked like the opposite. The Anthropic thread was initially chock full of marketing accounts claiming "Last straw! I finally moved to Codex and I'm so happy! No problems there!" - and then they all got deleted when Codex went down too.