Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 39 posts.
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
Over and over again, I’ve seen people fix some wireless-related problem and go “wow, I had no idea how much better this could be!" • Wireless protocols often silently operate in an extremely degraded state that makes them substantially worse than wired equivalents.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone...
Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to conf
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Internet speeds in the US were more than twice as fast as Europe's in 2021.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
