Hacker News with Generative AI: Cloudflare

DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently (torrentfreak.com)
Pirate site blocking orders issued against DNS resolvers including OpenDNS, Google, and Cloudflare are stacking up in Europe. Since similar demands may eventually surface in other countries, including the U.S., we take a look at how these companies respond to blocking orders. Our research reveals that their responses differ quite a bit, which adds to an already confusing situation.

DNS, Cybersecurity, Google, Cloudflare

182 points by DanAtC 12 days ago | 160 comments

Ask HN: Blocked by Cloudflare Infinite verify your human loop (ycombinator.com)
Works on Firefox and Chrome and doesn't work on Safari.

Web Browsers, Cloudflare, Troubleshooting

6 points by ksec 19 days ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Self-Hosted HTTPS Tunnel in 300 LoC with Go, Caddy, and Cloudflare (nexo.sh)
TL;DR: I built a lightweight, self-hosted HTTP tunnel that turns localhost into a public HTTPS URL. No paid plans, no secret black boxes. Just one Go binary, Caddy with wildcard TLS, and a $0/month Oracle Cloud VM. GitHub repo

Self-Hosting, HTTPS, Go, Caddy, Cloudflare

10 points by nexo-v1 23 days ago | 0 comments

I chose CSV uploads over complex UI for my MVP, and I'm proud (developerwithacat.com)
I had this idea for a tool that helps people copy Cloudflare firewall rules from one domain, hosted in Cloudflare, to multiple others. So, I decided to quickly build an MVP.

Software Development, MVP, Cloudflare, Web Development

13 points by mmarian 25 days ago | 0 comments

LaLiga/Cloudflare Crisis: ISPs Urged to Action Amid Mass Overblocking (torrentfreak.com)
With assistance from Spain's leading ISPs, LaLiga continues to block pirate sites, Cloudflare, and thousands of innocents caught in the crossfire. Legal action by Cloudflare and hacking collective RootedCON tried to bring the chaos to an end but their requests were dismissed last month. Meanwhile, a non-profit group is demanding that all ISPs participate in nationwide blocking.

Internet Censorship, Piracy, Legal Battles, Spain, Cloudflare

23 points by akyuu 41 days ago | 0 comments

Tell HN: Cloudflare billing issue that is over 6 months old and no support (ycombinator.com)
It appears that Cloudflare has had a known billing issue for more than 6 months now and there is no way to get in touch with support.

Cloudflare, Customer Support, Billing Issues

5 points by dawie 42 days ago | 2 comments

Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees (cloudflare.com)
Apache Iceberg is quickly becoming the standard table format for querying large analytic datasets in object storage. We’re seeing this trend firsthand as more and more developers and data teams adopt Iceberg on Cloudflare R2. But until now, using Iceberg with R2 meant managing additional infrastructure or relying on external data catalogs.

Cloud Storage, Data Analytics, Apache Iceberg, Cloudflare

47 points by kalendos 43 days ago | 8 comments

Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines (cloudflare.com)
Today, we’re launching the open beta of Pipelines, our streaming ingestion product.

Streaming, Cloudflare, Open Beta, Data Ingestion, Pipelines

5 points by frizlab 43 days ago | 0 comments

LaLiga/Cloudflare Crisis: ISPs Urged to Action Amid Mass Overblocking (torrentfreak.com)
With assistance from Spain's leading ISPs, LaLiga continues to block pirate sites, Cloudflare, and thousands of innocents caught in the crossfire.

Internet Censorship, Piracy, Spain, Cloudflare, ISPs

9 points by hn_acker 48 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in (ycombinator.com)
I've been a long-time Cloudflare user, but sometimes I just want a global load balancer without the lock-in and with full configuration control (e.g., some Cloudflare rules require an enterprise plan).

Load Balancing, Web Hosting, Open Source, Caddy, Cloudflare

77 points by martianE 50 days ago | 28 comments

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 58 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 63 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 63 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

65 points by ambigious7777 64 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 65 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 65 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 67 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 73 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 80 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 106 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 108 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 140 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 141 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 153 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 162 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 165 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 178 days ago | 1 comments

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

Security, Web Development, Cloudflare

145 points by sans_souse 187 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 190 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 202 days ago | 0 comments