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Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by heliumtera » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

Rohunyyy wrote: post #6

Mythos couldn't fix this vulnerability

They said it was very dangerous, it probably went rogue

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by burlesona » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

ai4mathlogicrsn wrote: post #14

Claude.ai is down… Powered by Atlassian StatusPage. SaaS is dead, but even Anthropic needs SaaS!

The thing about status pages is they have to be up when you're down, and (if your service is non trivial) they have to be able to handle a traffic profile that basically looks like DDOS. So, you're paying for the hosting infra more than the software.

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

maplethorpe wrote: post #10

By now they would have done a sweep with Mythos to remove any existing bugs and protect it from any cybersecurity attacks. So what could realistically bring it down at this point? Internal espionage?

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Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by brenoRibeiro706 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal.

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

This is what PMF looks like. When people love and pay, despite issues.

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by re-thc » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

maplethorpe wrote: post #10

By now they would have done a sweep with Mythos to remove any existing bugs and protect it from any cybersecurity attacks. So what could realistically bring it down at this point? Internal espionage?

> sweep with Mythos to remove any existing bugs and protect it from any cybersecurity attacks

Maybe Mythos went in too hard and removed the physical network too?

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by encom » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

HN is about to go down soon then, because a horde of "developers" are taking a collective time out from vibe coding AI slop to catch up on AI news.

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by zipy124 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

burlesona wrote: post #22

ai4mathlogicrsn wrote: post #14

Claude.ai is down… Powered by Atlassian StatusPage. SaaS is dead, but even Anthropic needs SaaS!

The thing about status pages is they have to be up when you're down, and (if your service is non trivial) they have to be able to handle a traffic profile that basically looks like DDOS. So, you're paying for the hosting infra more than the software.

Yeh, I've tackled this problem a few times, and just like back-ups you at some point need something external, because if you're down, you don't want your status page to go down too. This means you need to make sure to sandbox it pretty hard if rolling your own, ideally on a separate cloud behind a different CDN etc...

Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

brenoRibeiro706 wrote: post #24

It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal.

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Re: Claude.ai down

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Post by mjr00 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

burlesona wrote: post #22

ai4mathlogicrsn wrote: post #14

Claude.ai is down… Powered by Atlassian StatusPage. SaaS is dead, but even Anthropic needs SaaS!

The thing about status pages is they have to be up when you're down, and (if your service is non trivial) they have to be able to handle a traffic profile that basically looks like DDOS. So, you're paying for the hosting infra more than the software.

This is fundamentally the argument against all "SaaS is dead due to AI" claims.

Replicating the basic functionality for most SaaS is trivial, it's the "everything else" part that you're actually paying for.