Why “Yandex” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I use Yandex search every day and did not notice any problem in search. So far I can only see automated e-mail fetcher stopped. So I check non-Yandex inboxes manually until they…
by OCTAGRAM · Oct 13, 2026
Retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Yandex datacenters most likely - it communicates to EU states that Russia has capabilities to physically impact their infrastructure via cyb…
by twalla · Oct 13, 2026
The claim: > Ukraine Is Successfully Bombing the Heart of Russia's Disinformation Machine Proof from within TFA: > Yandex is the Kremlin’s information machine. It answers about…
by lelandfe · Oct 13, 2026
I see no evidence presented here or elsewhere that this attack stopped Russian "bots" rather than just search engine crawlers If the strongest "evidence" is anecdotal reports th…
by nylonstrung · Oct 13, 2026
Even as someone who believes that the datacenter strikes reduced Russian propaganda traffic, I don't think this article does anything to support that idea. It has the known Yand…
by iteria · Oct 13, 2026
Yandex Cloud Platform Component Statuses
by brohee · Oct 13, 2026 · 1 points
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Yandex LLC is a Russian technology company that provides Internet-related products and services including a web browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming media, online shopping, and a ridesharing company. Yandex Search is the largest search engine in Russia with an estimated 72% market share in Russia and a 2.8% market share worldwide. Yandex Taxi is the largest ridesharing company in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia