Hacker News with Generative AI: Infrastructure

The Most Implausible Tunneling Method (practical.engineering)
The original plan to get I-95 over the Baltimore Harbor was a double-deck bridge from Fort McHenry to Lazaretto Point.
Civil Engineering, Infrastructure, Baltimore
7 points by impish9208 3 days ago | 0 comments
Tell HN: The Hetzner Experience - Invisible Outages (ycombinator.com)
I'm a DevOps engineer at Schäfer Shop GmbH, and we've been running into recurring quirks with Hetzner's cloud infrastructure.
Cloud Computing, DevOps, Infrastructure, Hetzner
36 points by AmazingTurtle 3 days ago | 12 comments
Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret. (nytimes.com)
How civilized to catch a train, enjoy a meal on board and then go to bed in a cozy cabin while the moonlit world zips past.
Transportation, Infrastructure, History, Social Commentary
18 points by mitchbob 5 days ago | 7 comments
Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things? (jordanwtaylor2.substack.com)
I remember the first time I drove over the Mary McAleese bridge. It was less of a water crossing and more like passing through a gateway. This, it seemed to say, is a country that does great things. A towering crenellation summits the cable-stayed beauty, perched on two impossible looking legs straddling the bridge into the Boyne valley below.
Architecture, Infrastructure, Ireland
47 points by bilsbie 6 days ago | 70 comments
Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software (chriskrycho.com)
Yesterday, I delivered the opening keynote at LambdaConf 2025. What follows are the slides and script for the talk. I will also add a link to the video once it is available.
Infrastructure, Common Goods
23 points by speckx 9 days ago | 3 comments
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree (theregister.com)
The Saudi government on Tuesday announced a massive $600 billion investment in US defense, transportation, energy, and IT infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia, Investments, Technology, Defense, Infrastructure
11 points by rntn 9 days ago | 0 comments
When Abandoned Mines Collapse (practical.engineering)
In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and get it fixed.
Infrastructure, Engineering, Accidents
228 points by impish9208 17 days ago | 79 comments
Show HN: Outpost – OSS infra for outbound webhooks and event destinations (github.com/hookdeck)
Outpost is a self-hosted and open-source infrastructure that enables event producers to add outbound webhooks and Event Destinations to their platform with support for destination types such as Webhooks, Hookdeck Event Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.
Open Source, Webhooks, Infrastructure, Event Destinations, Software
67 points by alexbouchard 17 days ago | 8 comments
Officials cut planning grant for Texas high-speed rail between Dallas-Houston (texastribune.org)
President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday terminated a federal grant to help fund a long-sought high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston — saying that if the embattled project moves forward, it will have to do so without federal help at this stage.
Politics, Transportation, Texas, Infrastructure, Funding
4 points by 1659447091 20 days ago | 0 comments
Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge: the tallest bridge will open in China (cnn.com)
China, Infrastructure, Engineering, Bridges
5 points by rbanffy 21 days ago | 0 comments
Power Is Largely Restored in Spain After Widespread Outage (nytimes.com)
Electricity returned to nearly all of Spain almost 18 hours after a blackout there and in neighboring Portugal. The cause of the outage was unclear.
Power Outages, Spain, Portugal, Electricity, Infrastructure
15 points by JumpCrisscross 24 days ago | 0 comments
The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe's Power Back On (wired.com)
At 12:30 pm local time on Monday, the power went out. Across Spain and Portugal, trains and traffic lights abruptly stopped working.
Europe, Energy Crisis, Power Outages, Infrastructure
6 points by Geekette 24 days ago | 1 comments
Why restarting a power grid is so hard (arstechnica.com)
Since the Iberian Peninsula lost power in a massive blackout, grid operators are in the process of trying to restore power to millions of customers and businesses.
Power Grids, Blackouts, Infrastructure
13 points by dangle1 25 days ago | 1 comments
Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated (asteriskmag.com)
Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real source of the project’s struggles.
Transportation, California, Infrastructure, Politics
219 points by surprisetalk 25 days ago | 453 comments
European Critical Dependencies (gaeremyn.be)
TLDR; Multiple countries in Europe are critically dependent on services provided by Microsoft. Querying mail-servers teaches that in some countries, over 70% of all public services rely on this American provider. Europe needs to build its own infrastructure, and open source is the most robust solution.
Europe, Infrastructure, Open Source, Microsoft, Public Services
24 points by taubek 25 days ago | 19 comments
Show HN: Open-Source Infra for a Single MCP Server to Search and Use 600 Tools (github.com/aipotheosis-labs)
ACI.dev is the open-source infrastructure layer for AI-agent tool-use. It gives your agents intent-aware access to 600+ tools with multi-tenant auth, granular permissions, and dynamic tool discovery—exposed as either direct function calls or through a Unified Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) server.
Open Source, AI, Tooling, Agents, Infrastructure
41 points by ObnoxiousProxy 25 days ago | 0 comments
Nationwide Power Outages Also Disrupt Internet Traffic in Portugal and Spain (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Power Outages, Portugal, Spain, Internet, Infrastructure
54 points by emot 25 days ago | 2 comments
Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years (evchargingstations.com)
In an exclusive interview with State Of Charge‘s Tom Moloughney, Walmart has officially announced that it is going all-in with ultra-fast DC fast-charging EV infrastructure — something that has been on the table since at least 2023.
Electric Vehicles, Retail, Infrastructure, Transportation, Business
97 points by tzs 26 days ago | 97 comments
The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany (bbc.com)
A record-breaking tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany, which will slash travel times and improve Scandinavia's links with the rest of Europe.
Infrastructure, Engineering, Europe, Germany, Denmark
21 points by bookofjoe 27 days ago | 2 comments
Vibe Coding: The Infrastructure Problem (ycombinator.com)
The vibe coding trend has gained significant attention lately, but I believe we need a reality check on what it can actually deliver for production applications.
Software Development, Trends, Infrastructure
8 points by nomadrian 30 days ago | 3 comments
Using a dedicated administration workstation for a home infrastructure (dataswamp.org)
As I moved my infrastructure to a whole new architecture, I decided to only expose critical accesses to dedicated administration systems (I have just one). That workstation is dedicated to my infrastructure administration, it can only connect to my servers over a VPN and can not reach the Internet.
Home Networking, Security, Infrastructure, VPN
8 points by nivethan 31 days ago | 0 comments
Why Cloudflare Is the Perfect Infrastructure for Building AI Applications (reconfigured.io)
You know that feeling when you find the perfect tool for a job? That's how I feel about Cloudflare right now. If you've been following along, I recently wrote about the challenges of implementing a remote MCP server because of its stateful nature. Today, I want to share why Cloudflare has become my infrastructure provider of choice for the AI age.
Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure, Software
31 points by mxschumacher 38 days ago | 10 comments
Understanding US Power Outages – By Brian Potter (construction-physics.com)
Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to electric service are incredibly disruptive. Because of this, we demand a high level of reliability in electrical service.
Power Outages, Electricity, Infrastructure, Reliability
14 points by rbanffy 38 days ago | 10 comments
SSH Keys Don't Scale. SSH Certificates Do (infisical.com)
SSH access is ubiquitous. It's how engineers, scripts, and platforms across the world remotely administer Linux systems. Whether you're running a small development server or managing a global fleet, you almost certainly rely on SSH in some form or another.
Security, Infrastructure, SSH, Linux
20 points by dangtony98 39 days ago | 23 comments
Spray-on concrete innovation could transform bridge repairs (techxplore.com)
More than 40,000 bridges in the United States are deemed structurally deficient, and as many as 221,000 are deemed in need of repair, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association. Florida International University (FIU) researchers have developed a system that could play a key role in restoring them.
Infrastructure, Construction, Engineering, Innovation, Transportation
7 points by PaulHoule 40 days ago | 1 comments
Edison to Bury More Than 150 Miles of Lines in LA Fire Area (bloomberg.com)
Edison International’s utility said it plans to bury more than 150 miles (241 kilometers) of electrical lines at a cost of as much as $925 million as part of a massive rebuilding effort in Los Angeles-area neighborhoods devastated by January wildfires.
Utilities, Infrastructure, Wildfires, California, Cost
6 points by JumpCrisscross 41 days ago | 1 comments
Understanding US Power Outages (construction-physics.com)
Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to electric service are incredibly disruptive.
Power Outages, Infrastructure, United States
12 points by chmaynard 42 days ago | 3 comments
How to speed up US passenger rail, without bullet trains (bloomberg.com)
A new report shows how Amtrak and commuter railroads can reduce “dead time” and increase speeds for less than it would cost to build new high-speed rail lines.
Transportation, Infrastructure, US Politics, Rail Travel
65 points by petethomas 42 days ago | 126 comments
It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own (substack.com)
Traffic, Infrastructure, DIY, Personal Projects, Humor
58 points by sebg 46 days ago | 45 comments
US DOE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land (theregister.com)
The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America's AI ambitions, and is putting up its own land for this purpose.
Artificial Intelligence, Government, Energy, Infrastructure
5 points by LinuxBender 48 days ago | 3 comments