alt Hacker NewsEverybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab.
It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.
I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?
To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
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Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.
A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.
Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.
This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.
It’s more about the ensuing discussion.
I don't use it but I'd like to know even if it's just entertainment value. But I can imgine people who intend to use it learn something from it: redundancy must be part of their strategy like you said.
Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?
Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down
So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?
It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes
The usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons.
The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.