Thanks to everyone who suggested additions. Please keep adding foundations from your country in the comments.
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entropyneur
Russia used to be quite advanced in information technology. At one point they prided themselves on being one of only four nations with Internet-scale search engines IIRC. Their little military operation already cost them lots of talent. And now they are actively losing infra too. Nice.
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elimgta
Great! More news like this
Maybe this would remind ordinary russians that killing innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good
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gpt5
Data centers are becoming higher priority targets in wars recently, and with humans delegating more to AI, I suspect their priority will increase even further.
Makes me wonder how much compute is already being built in bunkers under mountains.
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usrnm
From a purely engineering perspective, this and the destroyed AWS datacenters in the Middle East show an interesting trend. How will it affect the way future datacenters and services hosted in them are built? Will we see a rise in decentralized systems and much larger networks of smaller DCs?
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r721
BBC story linked to this chart which is pretty interesting:
Russia, if you value your stuff you should not start wars you are not prepared to fight.
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binaryturtle
I like how the status reports are informative and rater detailed. I recently dealt with outages of my own German webhoster and they didn't even have a status page. I had to email their support to get some details (at least they replied very quickly :) )
thway15269037
Yandex is one of the most notoriously pro-western companies in Russia, actively supporting relocation attempts. They even removed Russian borders from their maps in 2022. Some people claim they do this day have intelligence sharing agreements with Ukraine.
Also, Yandex have a ban on any pro-russian ads and pro-military stuff (curiously so, not so much against drugs and crime).
Among other things, they actively lobbied for more internet censorship (because as major player they benefited from being white-listed and not affected by them).
People cheering in this thread do not realize that a lot of patriots in Russia will actually support full Yandex demolition.
Anybody have an idea how this insanity can ever end? Seems Russia is willing to kill off a whole generation of young people. Will this just go on forever? Or will Ukraine run out of soldiers?
So three important data centers strategically chosen to be destroyed? As far as i know such an loss couldn't even Google compensate, let alone Yandex. This could severely impact their economy for months.
I'll be curious to see how it affects the mood around HN.
EDIT: How curious - the article above removed all mention of disinformation - but you can still see it in the URL....
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znnajdla
Everything in Russia depends on Yandex. The impact on both businesses and daily life is massive. You can’t order a taxi or food delivery in most parts of Russia now. Retail chains POS systems in stores and payment systems are down too. Russians on threads and Twitter are complaining they can’t even buy things in stores. Of course, Putin himself doesn’t understand the impact because he barely knows how to use a computer and never uses the Internet.
_delibash_
Oh lord, this whole thread reads like an NSA/Mossad back and forth.
this is actually crazy, but absolutely a predictable outcome
shouldn't these be underground? would it even matter if they were, ukraine would just make mole drones..
bvcp
data centers are civilian targets and globally very poorly defended. if this starts to escalate.. you think ram is expensive now..
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Dkuku
Soon Trump will tell us that memory is so expensive due to Ukrainians hitting Yandex.
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Svoka
No wonder internet is so nice today. Hope they'll keep it up.
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jeff_vader
Is Kagi search still (partially?) relying on Yandex?
sedan_baklazhan
Guess it’s just a matter of “when” most datacenters on the MiddleEast will be hit.
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nixass
So they're migrating from on premise to cloud. Good
Imbryk
Finally good news from Russia!
sammy2255
They should start putting data centers underground like deep under central park
logicchains
What's an alternative way to find torrents if Yandex goes down?
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LoganDark
The communication from Yandex regarding these incidents seems very refreshing compared to what we usually see from big tech. They seem very realistic about what customers should expect and what measures they should take. I wish this were more common these days.
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gmerc
Good.
b0rys
Massive data/compute centers should be replace to lot of mini data/compute centers in our homes.
paaloeye
How many major DCs are there in Russia?
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pi-victor
tough luck
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ulfw
Good
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Artoooooor
Now it's time to strike data centers of antisocial media and AI companies. They are doing even more harm to the world.
NautilusTheBot
But how on earth are they able to penetrate through all their defensives
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surfingdino
Looks like Yandex is going to be taken over by the state for not investing in air defences. (There is a new law in russia that specifically allows confiscation of businesses that do not invest in air defenses.)
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alt227
Funny all the Americans here saying Fuck Russia, yet their own president is currently invading multiple countries per year...
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dainiusse
Is it yandex ir nebius?:)
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oezi
I wonder what's the impact on the Russian disinformation campaigns?
Can we use it to judge which accounts were bots?
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victorbjorklund
Nice.
sehw
Yandex is the best search engine for stuff banned by the "rotten wect" btw. F Google
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thinker34
Everything is fair in love and war. Unless the war stops, they can completely destroy each other.
The general decency of condemning any/all types destruction won't apply here.
For people who are “worried” that Ukraine targets data centers: Ukraine did not start it.
For the entire September, Russia conducted 10+ strikes on all key telecom, and internet provider data centers in Ukraine.
Now it is just a return
If you want to help Ukraine, here is a list of the largest volunteer funds you can donate to:
Come Back Alive - delivered the first deep-strike drones https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation - bought the famous spy satellite https://prytulafoundation.org/en
KOLO Charity Foundation - run by the Ukrainian tech community https://www.koloua.com/en/
Razom - US-based foundation https://www.razomforukraine.org/donate/
Canada-Ukraine Foundation - Canadian NGO, organizes winter aid for civilians https://www.cufoundation.ca/
Ukrainian World Congress https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/
Exen - Polish volunteer who delivers used vehicles to the front https://pomagam.pl/4x4dlaukrainy
United24 - the government fund https://u24.gov.ua/
Blue/Yellow - Lithuanian NGO supplying the Ukrainian military https://blue-yellow.lt/en/
Stopify - Latvian initiative, donations collected via Ziedot.lv https://stopify.org.ua/
Weapons to Ukraine - Czech initiative https://weaponstoukraine.com/en
Help99 - from Estonia's LIFT99 startup hub, convoys refitted trucks and drones to the front https://www.help99.co/donate
Aktion Deutschland Hilft - German humanitarian aid https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/
Thanks to everyone who suggested additions. Please keep adding foundations from your country in the comments.
Russia used to be quite advanced in information technology. At one point they prided themselves on being one of only four nations with Internet-scale search engines IIRC. Their little military operation already cost them lots of talent. And now they are actively losing infra too. Nice.
Great! More news like this
Maybe this would remind ordinary russians that killing innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good
Data centers are becoming higher priority targets in wars recently, and with humans delegating more to AI, I suspect their priority will increase even further.
Makes me wonder how much compute is already being built in bunkers under mountains.
From a purely engineering perspective, this and the destroyed AWS datacenters in the Middle East show an interesting trend. How will it affect the way future datacenters and services hosted in them are built? Will we see a rise in decentralized systems and much larger networks of smaller DCs?
BBC story linked to this chart which is pretty interesting:
>Internet Connectivity for AS200350 (YandexCloud)
https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/200350?from=1791331...
Russia, if you value your stuff you should not start wars you are not prepared to fight.
I like how the status reports are informative and rater detailed. I recently dealt with outages of my own German webhoster and they didn't even have a status page. I had to email their support to get some details (at least they replied very quickly :) )
Yandex is one of the most notoriously pro-western companies in Russia, actively supporting relocation attempts. They even removed Russian borders from their maps in 2022. Some people claim they do this day have intelligence sharing agreements with Ukraine.
Also, Yandex have a ban on any pro-russian ads and pro-military stuff (curiously so, not so much against drugs and crime).
Among other things, they actively lobbied for more internet censorship (because as major player they benefited from being white-listed and not affected by them).
People cheering in this thread do not realize that a lot of patriots in Russia will actually support full Yandex demolition.
Oh well. Some people never learn.
https://status.yandex.cloud/
Oh no, anyway.
Anybody have an idea how this insanity can ever end? Seems Russia is willing to kill off a whole generation of young people. Will this just go on forever? Or will Ukraine run out of soldiers?
Should likely share https://status.yandex.cloud/en/timeline as well, though it only shows two of them being hit, not three.
Nice! Keep it up boys!
There goes Kagi's results provider. :-P
So three important data centers strategically chosen to be destroyed? As far as i know such an loss couldn't even Google compensate, let alone Yandex. This could severely impact their economy for months.
3rd cloud data center so far.
BBC News story on this topic https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0k0g57mk3zo
Just in time to derail Russian disinformation before the election.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russ...
I'll be curious to see how it affects the mood around HN.
EDIT: How curious - the article above removed all mention of disinformation - but you can still see it in the URL....
Everything in Russia depends on Yandex. The impact on both businesses and daily life is massive. You can’t order a taxi or food delivery in most parts of Russia now. Retail chains POS systems in stores and payment systems are down too. Russians on threads and Twitter are complaining they can’t even buy things in stores. Of course, Putin himself doesn’t understand the impact because he barely knows how to use a computer and never uses the Internet.
Oh lord, this whole thread reads like an NSA/Mossad back and forth.
That's great!
Is https://habr.com normally down?
this is actually crazy, but absolutely a predictable outcome
shouldn't these be underground? would it even matter if they were, ukraine would just make mole drones..
data centers are civilian targets and globally very poorly defended. if this starts to escalate.. you think ram is expensive now..
Soon Trump will tell us that memory is so expensive due to Ukrainians hitting Yandex.
No wonder internet is so nice today. Hope they'll keep it up.
Is Kagi search still (partially?) relying on Yandex?
Guess it’s just a matter of “when” most datacenters on the MiddleEast will be hit.
So they're migrating from on premise to cloud. Good
Finally good news from Russia!
They should start putting data centers underground like deep under central park
What's an alternative way to find torrents if Yandex goes down?
The communication from Yandex regarding these incidents seems very refreshing compared to what we usually see from big tech. They seem very realistic about what customers should expect and what measures they should take. I wish this were more common these days.
Good.
Massive data/compute centers should be replace to lot of mini data/compute centers in our homes.
How many major DCs are there in Russia?
tough luck
Good
Now it's time to strike data centers of antisocial media and AI companies. They are doing even more harm to the world.
But how on earth are they able to penetrate through all their defensives
Looks like Yandex is going to be taken over by the state for not investing in air defences. (There is a new law in russia that specifically allows confiscation of businesses that do not invest in air defenses.)
Funny all the Americans here saying Fuck Russia, yet their own president is currently invading multiple countries per year...
Is it yandex ir nebius?:)
I wonder what's the impact on the Russian disinformation campaigns?
Can we use it to judge which accounts were bots?
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Nice.
Yandex is the best search engine for stuff banned by the "rotten wect" btw. F Google
Everything is fair in love and war. Unless the war stops, they can completely destroy each other.
The general decency of condemning any/all types destruction won't apply here.