Hacker News with Generative AI: Infrastructure

Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts (cloudflare.com)
When cable cuts occur, whether submarine or terrestrial, they often result in observable disruptions to Internet connectivity, knocking a network, city, or country offline.
Internet, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Europe
112 points by hampus 8 hours ago | 24 comments
How good are American roads? (construction-physics.com)
We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. We need a lot of energy infrastructure for decarbonization, and to enable the AI data center buildout. There’s lots of interest in building high-speed rail, mass transit infrastructure, desalination plants in arid regions, and better ports.
Infrastructure, Transportation, Energy, AI
181 points by chmaynard 16 hours ago | 387 comments
Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways (cnn.com)
Britain, Transportation, Infrastructure, Economics
58 points by peutetre 17 hours ago | 123 comments
Chinese ship investigated over 'sabotaged' Baltic Sea internet cables (telegraph.co.uk)
Swedish investigators are looking into the movements of a Chinese vessel in the Baltic Sea after two internet cables were severed in what some Western leaders suspect was an act of sabotage.
Cybersecurity, International Relations, Infrastructure, Espionage
4 points by toss1 17 hours ago | 0 comments
Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From? (practical.engineering)
In June of 2000, the power shut off across much of the San Francisco Bay area.
Electricity, Power Plants, California, Energy, Infrastructure
5 points by impish9208 2 days ago | 0 comments
Two telecoms cables in Baltic Sea severed, raising suspicions of sabotage (theguardian.com)
Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, have been severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors.
Cybersecurity, International Relations, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Europe
7 points by Wytwwww 2 days ago | 1 comments
Finland and Germany on the severed undersea cable in the Baltic Sea (auswaertiges-amt.de)
We are deeply concerned about the severed undersea cable connecting Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea. The fact that such an incident immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage speaks volumes about the volatility of our times. A thorough investigation is underway. Our European security is not only under threat from Russia‘s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors. Safeguarding our shared critical infrastructure is vital to our security and the resilience of our societies.
Cybersecurity, International Relations, Infrastructure, Europe, Russia
34 points by doener 2 days ago | 2 comments
UK undersea cables worth £7.4T a day under 'real threat' from Russia (independent.co.uk)
The UK’s vast web of undersea cables, interconnectors and pipelines are under a “very real and present threat” from Russia, a former Navy chief told Parliament.
Security, Geopolitics, Infrastructure, Russia, UK
9 points by toss1 3 days ago | 0 comments
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (cnn.com)
Undersea Cables, Baltic Sea, Infrastructure, Security
575 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 1001 comments
Finland Says Subsea Germany Link Serving Data Centers Is Severed (bnnbloomberg.ca)
An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was severed in the early hours of Monday by what was likely an external impact, authorities in the Nordic country said.
Data Centers, Finland, Germany, Infrastructure, Security
6 points by kimi 3 days ago | 2 comments
'A bullet train for power': China's ultra-high-voltage electricity grid (bbc.com)
China produces more clean energy than any other country. Now it's rolling out an ultra-high-voltage grid to match – will its strategy of going big pay off?
China, Renewable Energy, Electricity Grid, Infrastructure, Power Transmission
6 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 1 comments
'A bullet train for power': China's ultra-high-voltage electricity grid (bbc.com)
China produces more clean energy than any other country. Now it's rolling out an ultra-high-voltage grid to match – will its strategy of going big pay off?
China, Energy, Electricity, Infrastructure, Clean Energy
9 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 0 comments
Quarry: A modern computing environment for your World (lattice.xyz)
We’re proud to announce that we put Doom onchain, with just 7 milliseconds of latency. And we’re releasing the tech behind the feat to an alpha-tester group (with a full release coming in early 2025), so you can build ultra-fast applications onchain too. Quarry, our new infrastructure that powers this tech, is a full suite of offerings from Lattice that enables MUD applications to run in real-time at scale.
Blockchain, Gaming, Real-time Applications, Infrastructure, Alpha Testing
45 points by bpierre 7 days ago | 8 comments
Saudi government plans $100B AI and data infrastructure group (middleeastainews.com)
Bloomberg confirms rumours about 'Project Transcendence'
Artificial Intelligence, Government, Saudi Arabia, Technology, Infrastructure
5 points by AnhTho_FR 13 days ago | 0 comments
Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world (blogspot.com)
Several sources have whispered in my ear that META is planning a new 16 fibre pair cable that will encompass the world going from the US East Coast to the US West Coast via the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and the Pacific. The most ambitious subsea project ever undertaken.
Facebook, Subsea Cables, Telecommunications, Infrastructure, Global Connectivity
272 points by giuliomagnifico 17 days ago | 151 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 19 days ago | 0 comments
Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow (theregister.com)
There's a literal shitshow erupting in Moscow, where a skyscraper-high plume of sewage has erupted in the Russian capital, just months after Ukrainian hackers hit related systems.
Russia, Infrastructure, Environmental Issues, Hacking
9 points by laktak 23 days ago | 2 comments
Jump Trading, Virtu and the 'hidden optical fibre cable' under an Ohio field (ft.com)
Financial Markets, Trading, Technology, Infrastructure
61 points by throwaway2037 24 days ago | 73 comments
Geico repatriates work from the cloud, continues ambitious infra overhaul (thestack.technology)
GEICO, a large insurance firm owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is repatriating many workloads from the cloud, The Stack can confirm – as it embarks on a sweeping, ambitious architectural overhaul.
Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Business, Technology
48 points by us0r 27 days ago | 56 comments
Own Infrastructure Instead of AWS: Significantly Lower Costs, No Hidden Fees (heise.de)
37signals aims to save just under two million US dollars a year by moving out of the cloud and back into its own data center – significantly more than the initially targeted seven million dollars over five years.
Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, Data Centers, Infrastructure, 37signals
5 points by leastangle 28 days ago | 0 comments
Debugging audio artifacts caused by... a serial port? (recall.ai)
At Recall.ai we run enormous infrastructure to process millions of meetings per month, in real-time.
Audio Processing, Debugging, Software, Infrastructure
56 points by davidgu 29 days ago | 29 comments
Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure (cloudflare.com)
BastionZero joined Cloudflare in May 2024. We are thrilled to announce Access for Infrastructure as BastionZero’s native integration into our SASE platform, Cloudflare One. Access for Infrastructure will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls in front of their servers, databases, network devices, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today, we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature. Over the coming months we will announce support for other popular infrastructure access target types like Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Kubernetes, and databases.
Cybersecurity, Zero Trust, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing
151 points by mfrw 29 days ago | 160 comments
We Chose Nginx and HashiStack over Kubernetes for Our Service Discovery Needs (hexmos.com)
We recently switched from Kubernetes to Nomad to manage our infrastructure. At first, with two nodes and multiple services, we had a hard time getting the request routing to work reliably. In this post, I’ll walk through how we built an efficient and low-cost service discovery solution for our infrastructure—and why it could benefit others facing similar routing issues.
Infrastructure, Service Discovery, Nginx, HashiCorp, Nomad
20 points by thunderbong 29 days ago | 0 comments
3 Years After Allocating $5B for EV Chargers, 17 Stations Completed (nationalreview.com)
Electric Vehicles, Infrastructure, Government Spending, Public Policy
24 points by fortran77 29 days ago | 11 comments
Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia (mothership.sg)
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has granted Sun Cable Conditional Approval to supply electricity from Australia to Singapore via subsea cables spanning over 4,300 km.
Singapore, Energy, Australia, Infrastructure, Renewable Energy
133 points by wmstack 30 days ago | 148 comments
Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails (apnews.com)
Cuba’s electrical grid went offline Friday after one of the island’s major power plants failed, the energy ministry said.
Cuba, Power Outages, Energy, Infrastructure
86 points by kevinday 33 days ago | 103 comments
Foyle: You build it, AI should run it (mozilla.org)
As infrastructure complexity grows with cloud services, Kubernetes clusters, networking setups, and security policies, even seasoned developers grapple with deploying and operating their applications. I created Foyle to address these challenges.
Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Software, Kubernetes, Security
26 points by sourishkrout 35 days ago | 17 comments
Universal Jointing for Submarine Cables (ujconsortium.com)
Universal Jointing is a method of connecting all types of submarine optical tele-communication cables with a common set of construction equipment & methods.
Submarine Cables, Telecommunications, Technology, Infrastructure
53 points by altrus 36 days ago | 12 comments
Microsoft Azure CTO: US data centers will soon hit limits of energy grid (semafor.com)
The data centers that make generative AI products like ChatGPT possible will soon reach size limits, according to Microsoft Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, necessitating a new method of connecting multiple data centers together for future generations of the technology.
Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Generative AI, Energy, Infrastructure
11 points by jonbaer 38 days ago | 5 comments
Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement (yonkeltron.com)
Even US folks may not have seen the headlines about it, but a section of Interstate 95 near me collapsed in June of 2023.
Technology, Infrastructure, Opinion
31 points by todsacerdoti 38 days ago | 69 comments