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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,021 posts.
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The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off
Let's address the mammoth in the room: the fediverse , the network of mastodon servers, is very inefficient.
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Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections
Months ago I noticed something strange in the Little Snitch Network Monitor: Safari was still connecting to web sites after every window had been closed. At the time, I thought this was just a Safari bug. I brought the issue to the attention of some Safari engineers, who I had hoped would look into it. Since then…
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Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
Oldest registered domain names in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains
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The network is hostile
Yesterday the New York Times and ProPublica posted a lengthy investigation based on leaked NSA documents, outlining the extensive surveillance collaboration between AT&T and the U.S. government…
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Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security
Next generation Wi-Fi® security for personal and enterprise networks
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Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling
Ngrok is a fantastic tool for creating a secure tunnel from the public web to a machine behind NAT or a firewall. Sadly, it costs money and it’s proprietary. If you’re a developer, odds are that you’re already renting a server in the public cloud, so why not roll your own ngrok?
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Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
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Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
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Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1
One of my longest-running projects has been an open hardware Ethernet switch. This has been one of the key driving forces behind many of my other projects, such as ngscopeclient and the high speed probes. It was also the project that got me into high speed digital design.
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SaveDotOrg Protest at ICANN in Los Angeles this Friday Jan 24
Learn how the nonprofit community united in 2019 behind a successful campaign organized by NTEN and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
Linux phones now have the hardware and software to succeed, but it is an open question whether they will become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly.
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.
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Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem
Falcon enables an order-of-magnitude improvement over software-only transports. Today at the OCP Global Summit, Google is excited to open Falcon to the ecosystem through the Open Compute Project.
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Mastodon 3.2
The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye-catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded audio file…
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Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6
Feb 2015: 3½ years later, we’re in a better place. The new IE Spartan project has killed off document modes . (Technically, still possible in firewall environments, but… effectively dead for us.) These days, our IE support landscape is IE8 (still), IE11, and IE Mobile. 3 is definitely better than 72.
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Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed on mobile ...
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Stop trying to make social networks succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
No matter where you go, there you are If you're like me, you travel occasionally. Access to your office from home, or from an airport loun...
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GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
This is a conversation I had with Chat GPT trying to simulate an interaction with an non existing anonymous FTP server that would be made available for Disney fans
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Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs
We tested and benchmarked 42 of some of the most popular top-level domains and aggregated the results into a global median average.
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You’ve Got 0-Click Mail: Unassisted iOS Attacks RCE via Mobilemail/Maild
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! How is your cybersecurity practice going?
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Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
SMS Privacy is available as a Tor hidden service, and it turns out ~10% of users actually use it that way. This post details what I found when somebody created a phishing site of my Tor hidden service.
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Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
Why the integration has been removed from Home Assistant in 2023.10.2.
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State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet
For decades, municipal broadband operations have been subject to a minefield of restrictions and barriers designed to make the prospect of establishing or maintaining a community broadband network costly, difficult, and unsustainable. The Biden administration initially pledged that the Broadband Equity, Access, and…
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Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL
London's Transport for London has a wonderful service called Countdown that can give live bus arrival times. For example, here's a page s...