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yandex is a russian company, so no, don't use it
by Yajirobe 3mo ago
yandex is a russian company, so no, don't use it
- khuey 3mo agoI have bad news for you about where ClickHouse comes from then.
- chews 3mo agothank you for the advice mr mcarthy, i'll happily use deepseek and GLM to vibe my next project.
- inigyou 3mo agoDo you boycott American companies too? I'm assuming you boycott Russian companies because Russia causes death and destruction. But the USA caused much more death and destruction than Russia ever did - do you boycott them too?
- mgfist 3mo agouhhhh
- Yajirobe 3mo ago[flagged]
- UnfitFootprint 3mo agoexcept for perhaps… a scalable pg bouncer? And good nuclear reactors [1]? Not to say I support many Russian political moves, but I think discrediting an entire people and their outputs on Russian politics is brusque - particularly open source ones. [1]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/russia-nuclear-power-diplomacy-and-dependence/106647598 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/russia-nuclear-power-...
- Yajirobe 3mo agoNeither pg bouncer nor nuclear reactors are unique inventions in and of themselves - these are just iterations on what has existed previously. Of course russia can take an existing thing and iterate on it (computers, rockets, AK-47, etc.) but that wasn't my point.
- x4m 2mo agoWas a flight to space an iteration?
- femiagbabiaka 3mo agoObjectively speaking, Russia is one of the most creative and innovative societies of all time. Literature, science, music, sporting, mathematics, computing, you name it, a Russian has innovated in it.
- Yajirobe 3mo agoWhat would be some of these innovations and contributions in the last 20 years?
- marksomnian 3mo agonginx (2004, ok, 22 years), ClickHouse (2016)
- ramon156 3mo agoI don't get the "its from [country] so I don't use it". Unless this is somehow funding e.g. a war, what did the maintainers do to deserve such backlash? Edit: just read what ties ClickHouse has, nevermind.
- deleted 3mo ago[deleted]
- z0ltan 3mo ago[dead]
- dom3k 3mo agoBelieve what you do, it's more useful for war-mongering nation states when you see things in so black and white manner.
- selcuka 3mo agoBut in this case you would be supporting one of the good things (science & technology) they've done, right? A database connection pooler is not necessarily military technology.
- arcanemachiner 3mo agonginx is also Russian, so don't use... a third of the web.
- Yajirobe 3mo agonginx was built by one person. I'm talking about a russian corporation that has (inescapable) ties to kremlin
- zarzavat 3mo agoIf open source code can have political beliefs then the only reasonable solution is to live as a hermit. I can guarantee that there is software on your computer written by communists, nazis, mormons, every single political ideology is represented by lines of code that you run every day, because open source doesn't require any political vetting to contribute.
- __mharrison__ 3mo agoThere are probably even Mormons who post on HN...
- Yajirobe 3mo agoAgain, there's a difference between software written by a person that represents a 'bad' (to me) ideology, and software written by corporations in terrorist states.
- NicoJuicy 3mo agoYandex actually split up because of disagreement with the Russian governement and the war. Check out Nebius
- z0ltan 3mo ago[dead]