Hacker News with Generative AI: Infrastructure

Canada pledges billions for high-speed rail linking Quebec City and Toronto (apnews.com)
The Canadian government said Wednesday it is moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar plan to build a high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto.
Canada, High-Speed Rail, Infrastructure, Transportation, Government
22 points by geox 5 hours ago | 5 comments
Putin's secret weapon: The threat to the cables on our sea beds (bbc.co.uk)
Shortly after midday local time on Christmas Day 2024, workers at the Finnish electricity company Fingrid noticed the main undersea electricity cable linking Finland with Estonia was damaged, significantly reducing Estonia’s power supply.
International Relations, Geopolitics, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity
16 points by ralphhughes 9 hours ago | 4 comments
Subsea fibre optic cable deliberately cut for the 2nd time between N.S. and N.L (cbc.ca)
Telecommunications giant Bell is exploring surveillance options in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after one of its subsea fibre optic cables between Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland's west coast was recently severed for the second time.
Telecommunications, Canada, Security, Infrastructure
31 points by awnird 23 hours ago | 1 comments
Trump Administration Moves to End New York's Congestion Pricing Tolls (nytimes.com)
President Trump intends to revoke federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy that tolls drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest streets to finance repairs to mass transit.
Politics, Transportation, Infrastructure
39 points by mikhael 1 day ago | 61 comments
Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway (opsmaru.com)
We've started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part requires having proper infrastructure monitoring for several reasons. While Opsmaru has health monitoring for every cluster managed by the platform, it doesn't give us deep insights into the metrics of the systems.
Elixir, System Monitoring, Infrastructure, DevOps, Software Engineering
65 points by zacksiri 2 days ago | 16 comments
Meta plans to link US and India with longest undersea cable project (theguardian.com)
Meta has announced plans to build the world’s longest underwater cable project, which aims to connect the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions.
Meta, Undersea Cable, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, International Relations
5 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | 0 comments
Interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood (grist.org)
By the time President Donald Trump retook office, lawmakers had announced nearly $700 billion in funding for infrastructure- and climate-related projects under two bills passed during Joe Biden’s administration — the Inflation Reduction Act and the bipartisan infrastructure law.
Politics, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Local News
9 points by rntn 6 days ago | 0 comments
Turning Down Upspin Infrastructure (groups.google.com)
Upspin, like Unix and Plan 9, was intended to foster communities of sharing, but has been less successful at that than we hoped. As a consequence, with regret, we have decided to turn down the central infrastructure such as the keyserver over the coming months
Software, Infrastructure, Communities, Sharing, Decline
11 points by 4ad 9 days ago | 5 comments
Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (cacm.acm.org)
Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users.
Meta, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Hyperscalers
302 points by sidcool 10 days ago | 169 comments
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Power Systems Disconnected from Russian IPS/Ups (elering.ee)
The electricity systems of the Baltic States have been successfully disconnected from the Russia-controlled IPS/UPS system and are now operating independently in island mode.
Energy, Politics, Russia, Baltic States, Infrastructure
5 points by edward 12 days ago | 0 comments
Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (cacm.acm.org)
Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users.
Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Meta, Hyperscale, Data Centers
20 points by flakiness 13 days ago | 6 comments
Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa (grafana.com)
Observability tools have changed the way we monitor infrastructure and applications, as teams get complete visibility into performance across complex, multi-cloud environments.
Observability, FinOps, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Cloud
62 points by StratusBen 14 days ago | 43 comments
Trump Puts California High-Speed Rail in Crosshairs (ktla.com)
President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to stifle California’s High-Speed Rail project that is currently under construction and would link the Bay Area with greater Los Angeles.
Politics, Infrastructure, California, Transportation
5 points by LinuxBender 15 days ago | 0 comments
Farewell potholes? UK team invents self-healing road surface (theguardian.com)
For all motorists, but perhaps the Ferrari-collecting rocker Rod Stewart in particular, it will be music to the ears: researchers have developed a road surface that heals when it cracks, preventing potholes without a need for human intervention.
Engineering, Infrastructure, Technology, Transportation
30 points by zfg 16 days ago | 77 comments
Seeking Support After Equinix Metal Sunsets (alpinelinux.org)
We are deeply grateful to Equinix Metal (formerly Packet.net) for their longstanding support, which has been essential to Alpine Linux’s ecosystem. However, with Equinix sunsetting their bare-metal hosting service, this critical support will soon end. Their contributions have been invaluable, and we thank them for helping keep Alpine Linux reliable and efficient.
Linux Distributions, Cloud Hosting, Infrastructure
16 points by ahamez 16 days ago | 2 comments
Alpine Linux: Seeking Support After Equinix Metal Sunsets (alpinelinux.org)
We are deeply grateful to Equinix Metal (formerly Packet.net) for their longstanding support, which has been essential to Alpine Linux’s ecosystem. However, with Equinix sunsetting their bare-metal hosting service, this critical support will soon end. Their contributions have been invaluable, and we thank them for helping keep Alpine Linux reliable and efficient.
Operating Systems, Linux, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure
10 points by _ikke_ 17 days ago | 1 comments
Norway seizes Russian-crewed ship on suspicion of damage to undersea cable (cnn.com)
Norway, Russia, International Relations, Cyber Security, Infrastructure
28 points by belter 20 days ago | 2 comments
Github Incident with Pull Requests and Issues (githubstatus.com)
Users may experience timeouts in various GitHub services. We have identified an issue with our caching infrastructure and are working to mitigate the issue
GitHub, Downtime, Software, Infrastructure
8 points by furkansahin 21 days ago | 3 comments
Real-time, river sections downstream of sewage discharges from storm overflows (sewagemap.co.uk)
Environmental Issues, Water Quality, Data Visualization, Infrastructure, Public Health
69 points by markx2 23 days ago | 16 comments
Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea (france24.com)
Another undersea data cable, this time connecting Sweden and Latvia, has been severed in the Baltic Sea, officials from both countries said Sunday, and prompted Latvia to dispatch a warship near to where the incident had occurred.
Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Baltic Sea, Sweden, Latvia
176 points by belter 25 days ago | 157 comments
How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers (railway.com)
Railway makes software infrastructure for humans. Our pitch is simple. You give us a docker image or GitHub repo. We deploy and scale it, no friction.
Software Development, Scaling, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, DevOps
173 points by eckles 28 days ago | 118 comments
The first release of OpenVox, the OSS implementation of Puppet (overlookinfratech.com)
It’s been quite a journey, y’all. But we’re excited to announce the first release of OpenVox, the community-maintained open source implementation of Puppet. OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to Puppet and should be a drop-in replacement. Be aware, of course, that even though you can type the same commands, use all the same modules and extensions, and configure the same settings, OpenVox is not yet tested to the same standard that Puppet is.
Open Source, Puppet, Software, Infrastructure
77 points by mooreds 30 days ago | 43 comments
Trump announces a $500B private AI infrastructure investment (cnn.com)
Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Infrastructure
11 points by apsec112 30 days ago | 3 comments
Trump to announce private sector AI infrastructure investment (cbsnews.com)
President Trump is set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States, CBS News has learned.
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Technology, Infrastructure, Investment
16 points by nycdatasci 30 days ago | 3 comments
Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) (picaos.com)
Rust, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Infrastructure
63 points by moekatib 30 days ago | 44 comments
Bill Banning Foreign Adversaries Setting Up Shop Near Critical Areas Advances (cowboystatedaily.com)
The Senate Appropriations Committee gave a unanimous thumbs up Thursday to a bill that would ban foreign adversaries from setting up near critical infrastructure in Wyoming.
National Security, Legislation, Wyoming, Infrastructure, Foreign Policy
10 points by LinuxBender 34 days ago | 4 comments
Driving blind: NYC subways steered by 1930s tech, paper maps and a lot of hope (gothamist.com)
Transportation, Technology, Infrastructure
13 points by haltingproblem 35 days ago | 2 comments
Penn Station Can Handle the Load: New York Is Ready for Through-Running (etany.org)
The recently funded Gateway Program, which centers around building two new rail tunnels under the Hudson to connect New Jersey to Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, will enable a massive increase in rail passenger traffic. To handle this growth, ETA has continually advocated for through-running trains from New Jersey to Queens and beyond.
Transportation, New York, Infrastructure, Rail
79 points by Ericson2314 35 days ago | 81 comments
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI (theregister.com)
Most businesses rushing to adopt AI are unprepared for the energy demands it'll place on their infrastructure, and few have a handle on the power consumption of AI systems or the implications for their datacenters.
AI, Energy, Data Centers, Business, Infrastructure
44 points by rntn 36 days ago | 64 comments
Scaling LLMs with Golang: How we serve millions of LLM requests (assembled.com)
While the LLM ecosystem is overwhelmingly Python-first, we've found Go to be exceptionally well-suited for production deployments. Our Go-based infrastructure handles millions of monthly LLM requests with minimal performance tuning. Beyond Go's well-documented advantages (see Rob Pike’s excellent distillation of Go's benefits), three capabilities have proven particularly valuable for LLM workloads: static type checking for handling model outputs, goroutines for managing concurrent API calls, and interfaces for building composable response pipelines.
Go Programming, Performance, Infrastructure, API
17 points by johnjwang 37 days ago | 0 comments