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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,406 posts.
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An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history…
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Multiple banking IP addresses hijacked
BGP multiple banking addresses hijacked, Author: Adrien de Beaupre
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Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs
It’s been a year since the U.S. denied a cable license to the PLCN, creating a chain reaction that disrupted the trans-Pacific submarine cable market.
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The Federal HTTPS-Only Standard: Necessary and Overdue
The White House Office of Management and Budget has published a new standard recommending full HTTPS on all federal web sites and web services. They are accepting public comments until April 14; if you care about privacy and security, you should weigh in.This post is our public comment: we whole-...
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TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers
When you access a web site using the HTTPS protocol, a whole lot of interesting work (formally known as an SSL/TLS handshake) happens to create and maintain a secure communication channel. Your client (browser) and the web server work together to negotiate a mutually agreeable cipher, exchange keys, and set up a…
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Poor man's VPN via ssh socks proxy
Redpill Linpro Tech Blog
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Streaming Video and Audio with Low Delay
Data sent over the Internet will traverse a large number of smaller links. The combination of these links forms a path from the sender to the receiver. Sometimes data is lost when it traverses this path. For video and audio streams such losses can lead to playback glitches if not corrected.
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The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview
Learn how the Hetzner Cloud network stack has evolved and what role Open vSwitch, Private Networks, and Cloud Firewalls play.
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Apple's secret "wispr" request
When an Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod) connects to a WiFi network, the first thing it does is make a request to the URL http://www.ap...
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Radicle 1.3.0
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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macOS 14 Sonoma firewall bug fixed
The firewall bug in macOS 14 Sonoma betas and release candidates that we blogged about last week has been fixed by Apple.
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98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6
It's 2016 and almost every site using Cloudflare (more than 4 million of them) is using IPv6. Cloudflare sees significant IPv6 traffic globally where networks have enabled IPv6 to the consumer.
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Chrome users oblivious to Heartbleed revocation tsunami
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.
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Helping to secure internet routing
The internet works reliably, in large part, on the basis of a key technology called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP is a means by which all junction points on the internet (routers) communicate with each other to dynamically establish the correct (and correctly weighted) paths that network packets should follow to…
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How WebSockets work vs polling/long polling/streaming
How the web evolved from HTTP polling and Comet to WebSockets. Covers Ajax, long polling, Server-Sent Events, and why WebSockets became the standard for real-time communication.
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AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring
Running a complex network is not an easy job. In addition to simply keeping it up and running, you need to keep an ever-watchful eye out for unusual traffic patterns or content that could signify a network intrusion, a compromised instance, or some other anomaly. VPC Traffic Mirroring Today we are launching VPC…
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Overview of the 555-XXXX phone number
Phone numbers containing "555" are not just used for the movies, and yes, some numbers are indeed real.
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Huawei proposes to replace TCP/IP at ITU
The Internet continues to evolve at a rapid pace. New services, applications, and protocols are being developed and deployed in many areas.
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It's not always DNS, unless it is
Our journey investigating a months-long issue and what we learned from it
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Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
Cloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024
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Messaging layer security: Secure and usable end-to-end encryption
The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new standard for end-to-end security that will make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of security to their users. End-to-end encryption is an increasingly important security feature in Internet applications. It keeps users’ information…
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California consumer groups allow CenturyLink to end dark fiber leasing
If CenturyLink is allowed to buy Level 3 , then California will lose a major source of dark fiber. That’s my reading of a settlement agreement between CenturyLink, Level 3 and three of the organisations that challenged the deal at the California Public Utilities Commission. The fourth challenger, the California…
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Scion – A Novel Internet Architecture
At RIPE 81, a group of enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from industry and academia discussed with the RIPE community what role RIRs and LIRs could take on in the SCION next-generation Internet architecture. More than 80 BoF participants discussed this question, wanting to learn more about…