Hacker News with Generative AI: Infrastructure

ML Infrastructure Doesn't Have to Suck (citystoragesystems.com)
In a perfect world ML infrastructure would work like a well-oiled machine, balancing competing needs for flexibility, usability, maintainability, and cost effectiveness. Time from idea to production would be mere minutes. Let's be honest: many companies, including ours, often fall short. Users face a jigsaw puzzle of systems cobbled together with digital duct tape. "Synergy" isn’t exactly the word that came to mind.

Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Software Development

22 points by battwell 1 day ago | 2 comments

'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack? (theguardian.com)
Europe is on high alert after a series of outages to cables and pipelines. This visual guide explains what happened and what’s being done

Europe, Security, Infrastructure, Sabotage, Undersea Cables

175 points by cyberlimerence 2 days ago | 156 comments

We're Charging Our Cars Wrong (ieee.org)
If there’s one thing we could do now to hasten the transition to electric vehicles, it’s this: Build a robust public EV-charging infrastructure.

Electric Vehicles, Infrastructure, Climate Change, Technology

157 points by jnord 2 days ago | 204 comments

Nomadic infrastructure design for AI workloads (tigrisdata.com)
A nomadic server hunting down wild GPUs in order to save money on its cloud computing bill. Image generated with Flux [dev] from Black Forest Labs on fal.ai.

AI, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Optimization

16 points by xena 3 days ago | 1 comments

Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes (theregister.com)
Network operators laying fiber infrastructure could cut their costs by taking advantage of "thousands of miles" of abandoned infrastructure, including gas and water pipes, according to a firm that tracks such things.

Networking, Infrastructure, Cost Reduction, Technology, Telecommunications

5 points by rntn 4 days ago | 1 comments

Europractice (europractice.com)
EUROPRACTICE provides a critical infrastructure for Europe and services that enhance Europe’s competitiveness in the global market place.

Europe, Infrastructure, Competitiveness

14 points by lifeisstillgood 5 days ago | 0 comments

Should open source development platforms be a public utility? (xot.nl)
Perhaps open source collaboration platforms like Codeberg should be considered a form of public utility, maintaining a public infrastructure, with public financial support, and public oversight.

Open Source, Public Utilities, Technology, Infrastructure, Collaboration

5 points by raybb 10 days ago | 1 comments

Has UK rail's Elizabeth line shown what rail investment can achieve? (theguardian.com)
Halfway to a billion journeys, and it’s only just begun. Amid the recent gloom, struggles and doubts besetting Britain’s railway there is a bright beacon of hope: the Elizabeth line.

Transportation, United Kingdom, Infrastructure, Rail

5 points by erehweb 14 days ago | 1 comments

Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea (nytimes.com)
The Swedish authorities said on Friday that they were investigating a new cable break in the Baltic Sea, the latest example of damage to underwater infrastructure in the region.

Sweden, Baltic Sea, Infrastructure, Security, International Relations

199 points by xnx 14 days ago | 187 comments

Sweden investigating new reports of Baltic Sea cable damage (dw.com)
Swedish authorities said on Friday they are investigating reports of a breach of another undersea cable in the Baltic Sea.

Sweden, Baltic Sea, Undersea Cables, Infrastructure, International Relations

32 points by marban 14 days ago | 7 comments

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

56 points by geox 15 days ago | 68 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

32 points by awnird 15 days ago | 2 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

41 points by mikhael 15 days ago | 66 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

76 points by zacksiri 17 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

26 points by Brajeshwar 17 days ago | 3 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 20 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 23 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 24 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 26 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 27 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 28 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 29 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 30 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 31 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_ 31 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 34 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 36 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 38 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 39 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 42 days ago | 118 comments