Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 37 posts.
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.
OpenSSH release notes
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram’s self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago. The bug didn’t get any press, and no one seems to know about it, probably because it was only published in Russian.
iCloud Private Relay is an Apple service for browsing more privately and securely. Learn how to ensure the best user experience using iCloud Private Relay.
Faster, easier and more secure sign-ins will be available to consumers across leading devices and platforms
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
Prior attempts to calculate Starlink’s potential for service have been theoretical. We simulate based on the actual constellation.
When you hear the term, you should picture an hourglass with M things on one side, N on the other, and an important concept in the middle.
Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.
OpenSSH agent restriction
A design pattern to reduce centralized control and change incentives in social networks.
Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
Hopefully in-person meet-ups will prove much easier in 2022 - but, there’s still a need for video calls, so let’s face it, they’re here to stay. This makes it really exciting to present Element Call: the world’s first decentralised voice and video conferencing app powered entirely
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
Use this article learn how to decide who to trust when it comes to your tailnet’s coordination server and how nodes are added to your tailnet.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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This document provides the GNU Name System (GNS) technical specification. GNS is a decentralized and censorship-resistant domain name resolution protocol that provides a privacy-enhancing alternative to the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. This document defines the normative wire format of resource records…
A few months ago I stumbled on a tweet pointing out a kind of SFP optic that claimed to be smart, made by a Russian company Plumspace . After going through their Smart SFP product listings I was on-board and decided I needed to have some of them.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Posted by Matthew Maurer and Mike Yu, Android team To help keep Android users’ DNS queries private, Android supports encrypted DNS. I...
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
HTTP does a pretty good job staying out of everyone’s way. If you’re reading this article, there’s a solid chance it was delivered to you over HTTP. Even if you’re reading this from an RSS reader o...
