Updated Status from OpenAI:
We’re currently experiencing issues
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
Monitoring • Ongoing for 30 minutes • Affects ChatGPT, Codex
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?
#262nvm. it back
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#263Too early to know, let’s wait and see
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#264[dead]
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#265Some npm library that makes headers bold would be broken.
Ah yes ye olde bold-headers: ^3.13.31;
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#266Codex is backup for me. Try yours out just in case. I have some buddies still seeing outages so it could just be coming back online progressively.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#267Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_effect
Edit: Updated per valleyer's suggestion.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#268Is the whole world going back to the era of old-school programming?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#269time to use claude
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#270I thrive in these types of challenges. Anyways... According to Claude: "Yes, there is a multi-provider outage happening today. Downdetector is reporting problems affecting OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Cursor, with Grok and Claude reports starting around 9:00 am ET and OpenAI reports following around 10:30 am ET. Zero Hedge On the Anthropic side, users saw a spike in errors starting around 9:40 am EDT across models inclu…
30 mins and they still havent figured it out .. people are gonna loose their jobs trying to figure this out .. 30mins is too long when millions use it