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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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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?

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline is great and is exactly on this topic.

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

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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/

I think down detector doesn't actually have any probes or actual insight into status etc. I think it uses search volume on its own service as a proxy for an outage - so if e.g. lots of people rush to down detector to query to see if SERVICE_FOO is down, it will register as an outage on down detector because loads of people are trying to see if there is an outage even if SERVICE_FOO is actually totally fine. My hunch…

Down detector is a self-reported platform, they use a baseline over 6 months from user reports to try to automatically "detect" if there is a real outage, or if its just a couple end-users. Ultimately, the outage is entirely based on users going to down detector and clicking on "Report a Problem".

https://downdetector.com.py/en/methodology/

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

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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?

For a TLDR https://youtu.be/aq4G-7v-_xI?si=7yNv6FKuGfqbz_rv is generally beloved

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

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Cloudflare CTO claims that it's not them https://x.com/dok2001/status/2095538619603628388?s=46&t=ec6p...

https://nitter.kareem.one/dok2001/status/2095538619603628388

Surprised there's instances still up

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

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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/

I think down detector doesn't actually have any probes or actual insight into status etc. I think it uses search volume on its own service as a proxy for an outage - so if e.g. lots of people rush to down detector to query to see if SERVICE_FOO is down, it will register as an outage on down detector because loads of people are trying to see if there is an outage even if SERVICE_FOO is actually totally fine. My hunch…

So Down Detector is a kind of quantum observation experiment, observing influences the result.

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

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post #487

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Room 641A is being cleaned, but we'll hold your bags for you.

Cleaning lady unplugged the core router because she needed a power socket for vacuum

Sorry, i was out of a spare scratch monkey.

https://madned.substack.com/p/always-mount-a-scratch-monkey

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

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Now you guys are just adding no-op fuel to the fire.

I made Claude write noöp instead of no-op and it's still amusing a couple of days later :P

> I made Claude write noöp

Tangentially related [1]:

> The billboard ad, located next to the Ikea Tempe store in Sydney, says 'NÖFNIDEA? No tools, no worries’.

[1] https://www.adnews.com.au/news/koala-mattresses-takes-swipe-...

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