Hacker News with Generative AI: Cloudflare

AI Data Poisoning (schneier.com)
Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers:

Artificial Intelligence, Security, Web Security, Cloudflare

7 points by pongogogo 7 days ago | 1 comments

Cloudflare R2 Global Outage (cloudflarestatus.com)
Cloudflare is investigating an increase in HTTP 5xx errors with R2 and related services Stream, Images, and Cache Reserve.

Cloud Computing, Outage, Cloudflare, Web Services

6 points by leiferik 12 days ago | 0 comments

HTTPS-only for Cloudflare APIs: shutting the door on cleartext traffic (cloudflare.com)
Today we’re announcing that we’re closing all of the HTTP ports on api.cloudflare.com.

Security, Cloudflare, API, Web Development, HTTPS

16 points by tech234a 12 days ago | 6 comments

Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth (cloudflare.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives. When you opt in, Cloudflare will automatically deploy an AI-generated set of linked pages when we detect inappropriate bot activity, without the need for customers to create any custom rules.

AI, Security, Bots, Cloudflare

64 points by ambigious7777 14 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Usque – Open-Source Cloudflare Warp Masque Client (github.com/Diniboy1123)
Usque is an open-source reimplementation of the Cloudflare WARP client's MASQUE protocol. It leverages the Connnect-IP (RFC 9484) protocol and comes with many operation modes including a native tunnel mode (currently Linux only), a SOCKS5 proxy mode, and a HTTP proxy mode.

Open Source, Network Security, Cloudflare, VPN

17 points by MaryJohanna 14 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Why pay for Cloud Hosting if I can just use Cloudflare Tunnels for free? (ycombinator.com)
I'm paying thousands of dollars a year for AWS when it seems to me I could just buy a computer and a couple solid state drives, and host locally.

Cloud Hosting, Cloudflare, Web Hosting, Cost Optimization

7 points by EGreg 15 days ago | 7 comments

Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office (cloudflare.com)
Over the years, Cloudflare has gained fame for many things, including our technical blog, but also as a tech company securing the Internet using lava lamps, a story that began as a research/science project almost 10 years ago. In March 2025, we added another layer to its legacy: a "wall of entropy" made of 50 wave machines in constant motion at our Lisbon office, the company's European HQ.

Technology, Cloudflare, Office Culture, Internet Security

282 points by jgrahamc 16 days ago | 139 comments

Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers (theregister.com)
Users of some of the less well-known web browsers are getting blocked from accessing multiple sites by Cloudflare's flaky browser-detection routines.

Cloudflare, Web Browsers, Security, Internet

96 points by userbinator 23 days ago | 53 comments

Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers (theregister.com)
Users of some of the less well-known web browsers are getting blocked from accessing multiple sites by Cloudflare's flaky browser-detection routines.

Cloudflare, Web Browsers, Security, Privacy

8 points by mimasama 30 days ago | 1 comments

Cloudflare R2 Global Outage (cloudflarestatus.com)
Cloudflare is observing issues with Cloudflare R2 service.We are currently working on a resolution. More updates to follow shortly.

Cloud Computing, Network Issues, Cloudflare, R2

133 points by leiferik 56 days ago | 34 comments

Over 700M events/second: How Cloudflare makes sense of too much data (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare's network provides an enormous array of services to our customers. We collect and deliver associated data to customers in the form of event logs and aggregated analytics. As of December 2024, our data pipeline is ingesting up to 706M events per second generated by Cloudflare's services, and that represents 100x growth since our 2018 data pipeline blog post.

Cloud Computing, Data Management, Performance, Scale, Cloudflare

13 points by caust1c 57 days ago | 1 comments

Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP but Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support (phoronix.com)
The folks at Cloudflare have published another great engineering blog post with this time covering Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) as a very interesting addition to the TCP spec. But there they acknowledge the less than ideal Linux support especially on the client side.

Networking, Linux, Cloudflare, TCP, Software

4 points by ksec 89 days ago | 0 comments

Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience (ycombinator.com)
Cloudflare challenges have made large portions of the web unusable for me.

Web Browsing, Security, Cloudflare

523 points by blakeashleyjr 90 days ago | 304 comments

Ask HN: How to unblock RSS feeds on Cloudflare hosted sites? (ycombinator.com)
My blog[1] is hosted on Cloudflare pages. Fee of my readers complained that they’re unable to add my blog in multiple rss readers. Any ideas to bypass this ?

Web Development, RSS, Cloudflare

34 points by rishikeshs 102 days ago | 14 comments

Blocking of Cloudflare ECH in Russia (github.com/net4people)
Cloudflare's deployment of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is blocked in multiple networks in Russia since 2024-11-05.

Networking, Security, Russia, Cloudflare

5 points by DanAtC 112 days ago | 0 comments

Anyone Noticed the Outage? (ycombinator.com)
Cloudflare radar shows 50% global traffic drop. Like, instantly, about UTC 02:00 8 Dec. Apparently, all continents affected. Downdetector.com has a spike on all graphs about the same time. The internet is pretty centralized these days, so a sudden 50% drop is explainable. Still, I see no commentary on the media.

Internet Outage, Cloudflare

10 points by truefossil 115 days ago | 6 comments

Cloudflare incident on November 14, 2024, resulting in lost logs (cloudflare.com)
On November 14, 2024, Cloudflare experienced an incident which impacted the majority of customers using Cloudflare Logs.

Cybersecurity, Cloudflare, Server Errors

9 points by kagitac 127 days ago | 1 comments

Cloudflare.com's Robots.txt (cloudflare.com)

Security, Web Development, Cloudflare

145 points by sans_souse 137 days ago | 43 comments

How to Redirect a Cloudflare Domain to Another URL (johnys.io)
Every time I find myself trying to re-learn something I'm taking the time to document. Here's one simple example:

Web Development, Cloudflare, Domain Names, URL Redirection

7 points by johnys 139 days ago | 4 comments

Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their infrastructure? (shivangsnewsletter.com)
Cloudflare enables its customers to run serverless code at the edge globally at blazing speeds with almost zero cold startup time.

Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Infrastructure, Cloudflare

18 points by thunderbong 151 days ago | 0 comments

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users (openrss.org)
Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it.

RSS, Web Development, Cloudflare

559 points by campuscodi 168 days ago | 256 comments

U.S. Judge Asked to Collect $1.4M Moldovan Judgment Against Cloudflare (torrentfreak.com)
Two book authors are asking a U.S. federal court to enforce a $1.4 million piracy judgment against Cloudflare.

Law, Cybersecurity, Piracy, Cloudflare

78 points by isaacfrond 170 days ago | 33 comments

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (theregister.com)
Cloudflare on Thursday celebrated a victory over Sable Networks, which the former described as a "patent troll."

Legal Battles, Cloudflare, Patents, Software

451 points by Brajeshwar 179 days ago | 58 comments

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Since early September, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Cloud Computing

49 points by beefman 181 days ago | 19 comments

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Internet Security, Network Security

10 points by syck 183 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS over HTTPS API to bulk search domain TLDs (supersaas.dev)
Check if a domain is available for your brand.

DNS, Cloudflare, Domain Registration, Programming, Tools

11 points by fayazara 183 days ago | 4 comments

Cloudflare Zero Trust DNS is down (cloudflarestatus.com)
We are currently investigating an issue where users on Cloudflare WARP may intermittently have issues resolving DNS addresses.

Internet, DNS, Cloudflare, Security, Networking

9 points by zhoutong 189 days ago | 0 comments

Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster (cloudflare.com)
Each time a user visits your web page, they are initiating a race to receive content as quickly as possible.

Web Development, Performance Optimization, Website Speed, Cloudflare

9 points by jgrahamc 190 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare has started re-enabling ECH (github.com/net4people)
Seems like Cloudflare has gradually started to enable Encrypted ClientHello support. You can see it on rutracker.org and bo0om.ru for example.

Security, Networking, Cloudflare, Encrypted ClientHello

8 points by btdmaster 192 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare helps Brazil block Elon Musk's X after platform briefly evaded ban (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk's X temporarily became accessible again in Brazil despite government orders requiring Internet service providers to block the social network.

Social Media, Censorship, Brazil, Elon Musk, Cloudflare

10 points by pseudolus 195 days ago | 1 comments