Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet Infrastructure

From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure (axonshield.com)
The development of DNS demonstrates an impressive journey from its initial basic form into a modern distributed system which provides high resilience.
DNS, Internet Infrastructure, History, Networking, Technology
9 points by dc352 34 days ago | 3 comments
Why Germans put up with snail-speed internet (elpais.com)
During the last UEFA European Football Championship, it wasn’t just the trains that were always running late or the fact that many stores only accepted cash that made Germany look bad. Criticism of the country’s terrible wi-fi connections was also shared with the rest of the world.
Germany, Internet Infrastructure, Technology, Europe
10 points by belter 82 days ago | 4 comments
Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss (infoq.com)
Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost.
Cloud Computing, Security, Data Loss, Internet Infrastructure
6 points by belter 199 days ago | 0 comments
Police investigate damage to internet cable between Finland and Sweden (yle.fi)
A fibre-optic cable connecting Finland and Sweden was damaged on Monday, causing a major outage in Finland.
Internet Infrastructure, Finland, Sweden, Security
18 points by Hamuko 206 days ago | 5 comments
Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts (ripe.net)
This week's Internet cable cuts in the Baltic sea have been widely reported, even as attempts to understand their cause and impact are ongoing. We turn to RIPE Atlas to provide a preliminary analysis of these events and examine to what extent the Internet in the region is resilient to these events.
Internet Infrastructure, Network Resilience, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis
172 points by voytec 219 days ago | 62 comments
Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet (nautil.us)
The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.
Internet Infrastructure, Technology, Oceanography, Telecommunications
72 points by rbanffy 221 days ago | 28 comments
A deep-sea 'emergency service' keeps the internet running (bbc.com)
Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?
Internet Infrastructure, Technology, Underwater Technology, Networking, Disaster Recovery
80 points by rdl 255 days ago | 10 comments
Reaffirming Our Commitment to Free (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare launched our free tier at the same time our company launched — fourteen years ago, on September 27, 2010. Of course, a bit has changed since then — there are now millions of Internet properties behind Cloudflare. As we’ve grown in size and amassed millions of free customers, one of the questions we often get asked is: how can Cloudflare afford to do this at such scale?
Free Services, Cloud Computing, Internet Infrastructure
17 points by jgrahamc 273 days ago | 0 comments
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways (theregister.com)
The dominance of US-based hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in subsea cables has reshaped the industry and put critical infrastructure at risk, an Australian think tank claims.
Internet Infrastructure, Subsea Cables, Hyperscalers, Data Centers, Australia
13 points by rntn 275 days ago | 5 comments
Interactive map of submarine internet cables around the world (submarinecablemap.com)
The Submarine Cable Map is a free and regularly updated resource from TeleGeography.
Maps, Internet Infrastructure, Telecommunications
12 points by therabbithole 280 days ago | 0 comments
The threads of glass that make the internet run: How fiber-optic cable is made (washingtonpost.com)
Internet Infrastructure, Technology, Manufacturing, Fiber Optics
22 points by wallflower 317 days ago | 2 comments
The growing threat to undersea Internet cables (theguardian.com)
Internet Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Geopolitics
7 points by robaato 323 days ago | 0 comments
L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure (l402.org)
Payments, Internet Infrastructure, Technology
69 points by janandonly 347 days ago | 142 comments
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (theverge.com)
Internet Infrastructure, Maritime Industry, Technology, Business
287 points by vinnyglennon 435 days ago | 91 comments