Tough couple of days, no doubt (see: https://status.claude.com/). Prior to the outage I began hitting a series of 429s off of light usage (nothing abnormal in local network logs). In any case, would be a hell of a coincidence if this wasn't somehow related to the DOD/DOW stuff.
This almost certainly is. I fear that Claude is likely being attacked by foreign (domestic?) adversaries.
If it quacks like a duck...
Still the same here at 06:30 CET
I came to HN after seeing Claude chat fail to load.
I think I ran into it right around 8:30pm PST as well.