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

303 pointsby halcdevtoday at 3:07 PM509 commentsview on HN

https://status.openai.com

https://status.claude.com

https://status.x.ai

ChatGPT outage – Resolved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614 (315 comments)

Claude outage – Resolved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676 (146 comments)

Grok outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551589 (142 comments)


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dgorgestoday at 4:16 PM

It's always DNS

LetsGetTechnicltoday at 4:25 PM

Is this finally it?

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tdsancheztoday at 4:02 PM

It's probably Azure infra that's the problem.

victor22today at 9:15 PM

because they resell the same service? duh?

chasd00today at 3:52 PM

claide.ai is working for me, so is chatgpt.com. grok still has a status message about issues, i can't try it without signing up.

apurva_wtoday at 3:14 PM

It still down, showing 404 in India as well. Looks like this is global .. so we all jumping the ship then? Is Altman still alive, or did he choke?

PeterHolzwarthtoday at 2:53 PM

Many LLMs down, discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676

nmlttoday at 4:12 PM

Somebody in another thread said gastown and wheelhouse automatically move to the next provider if one fails.

thatbrownguytoday at 3:18 PM

I am only seeing one session work, but all other sessions are not working or proceeding. So I can only work in one chat session.

postalcodertoday at 2:51 PM

Astra is being released today. Probably not a coincidence.

edit: actually, you cannot even log into your OpenAI developer account. Something's wrong.

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PatronBernardtoday at 3:07 PM

Goddamnit it was going to tell me how to scale down ingredients for a pie recipe based on relative diameters of the baking tray.

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convivialdingotoday at 3:11 PM

The Thundering Herd has thundered, apparently.

world2vectoday at 4:00 PM

Claude Code seems totally fine for me.

lrvicktoday at 5:12 PM

I have never felt more smug about exclusively using the GPUs I rack at home.

dmillartoday at 4:01 PM

Seeing 503s on Gemini via API as well

JackFrtoday at 4:00 PM

Obvious answer is it's the AI singularity. Been nice run for humanity. So long everyone.

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melaniekidsontoday at 2:57 PM

Down for me too - got this msg 8 min ago 'unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a3558590dd70fadf-JNB'

melaniekidsontoday at 2:56 PM

I got this msg too 'unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a3558590dd70fadf-JNB' about 5 min ago

dgellowtoday at 3:33 PM

Too early to know, let’s wait and see

eva_verdaguertoday at 3:16 PM

Down in Barcelona as well unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a355aefbcc8db8e3-BCN

agentieseotoday at 3:17 PM

Down in Romania too : unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a355b6263e43c9cf-OTP

stndctoday at 8:03 PM

My theory is that they all use the same server. The same mind.

kermatttoday at 3:26 PM

I wonder if when one goes down, activity shifts to others, in turn pushing them over a threshold.

vegnustoday at 3:06 PM

Really glad I got Qwen before Zero Day

schnebbautoday at 2:55 PM

Well, time to end the day here I guess.

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rimamcttoday at 2:58 PM

I got same error, unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a3559a536bcf254b-SOF

twofluidcarrotstoday at 3:11 PM

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-BRU

Ends in BRU for Brussels

nozzlegeartoday at 4:33 PM

Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B are working from my machine. Anyone else?

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forgot-my-pwtoday at 4:23 PM

Time for Gemini 3.8 Flash to shine?!

It's much cheaper and has replaced Sonnet 5 for me.

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w0zytoday at 2:58 PM

Here in Brazil too. unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray:

In think that is a global error

eventishbusinestoday at 3:38 PM

The extention on the error link points to a cf-ray and a local designation (ex. YYZ for montreal). This is seems like it is a cloudfare thing. Could this be the same issue they had in the summer around losing the indexing?

w0zytoday at 2:58 PM

Here in brazil too.

I think that is a global error.

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray:

morkalorktoday at 3:55 PM

Didn't SpaceX overbuilt infra and leases it out Anthropic? I f their dc goes down it probably takes a chunk out of Claude's capacity before even considering the flood of users switching over

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sumantthtoday at 3:12 PM

What an ironey, was working on scaling an application with Codex and it went down!

jedbrooketoday at 3:48 PM

according to https://downdetector.com/ Gemini is down too (and copilot, but that just uses ChatGPT right?)

shayonjtoday at 3:07 PM

Interesting that this is happening around the same time as Claude issues too

dhruvrrptoday at 4:05 PM

Both clause and codex through bedrock seem to be working fine.

Conol_aitoday at 3:35 PM

Is the whole world going back to the era of old-school programming?

6thbittoday at 4:15 PM

What's the single point of failure across providers?

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jplusequalttoday at 3:04 PM

I fear the majority of people in this thread who are joking about no longer being able to do their job while Codex/Claude are down aren't really joking.

solarsystem_88today at 3:13 PM

Hey, don't really know about this type of failures, does anybody know how long does it take normally to get back to normal? I finally stopped procrastinating and now this happens.

solarsystem_88today at 3:15 PM

Hey, don't really know about this type of failures, does anybody know how long does it normally take to get back to normal? I just stopped procrastinating and now this happens.

djinn80today at 3:13 PM

So NVIDIA buys hugging face, builds hardware to power OS models, then all of a sudden the proprietary models go down and people start saying "this is why I have my Spark box"?!

Nice play NVIDIA, now, turn off the hack please, we have work to do.

GPersontoday at 6:09 PM

Oh no the singularity plateaus!

hardyburnetttoday at 3:33 PM

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

graysonthemasontoday at 3:07 PM

The errors I'm seeing are ending in the user's nearest airport symbol which is a standard the CloudFlare employs. 1 point towards this being a cloudflare issue.

munizztoday at 3:09 PM

it went down, and the alert system at https://www.analistas.com.br/ detected it

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