Comment on Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6Comments−cadamsdotcom2modang et al,"Service X is down" is not "news". Kinda feels like points-farming.Anyone caring that X works is gonna know it's down - they can't work! And probably why they are at HN ;)HN as an "is service X down?" detector is less reliable than trying the actual service :)If HN is gonna keep letting people post "X is down" no worries. But it seems worth a flag.
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dang et al,
"Service X is down" is not "news". Kinda feels like points-farming.
Anyone caring that X works is gonna know it's down - they can't work! And probably why they are at HN ;)
HN as an "is service X down?" detector is less reliable than trying the actual service :)
If HN is gonna keep letting people post "X is down" no worries. But it seems worth a flag.