Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,021 posts.
What do you do when you want to look up the owner of a domain name? You probably perform a "WHOIS search" to find out the owner's name and contact information. The WHOIS system, which makes certain domain registration data publicly available, is an invaluable research tool for trademark owners a...
Run away while you still can, it's not too late for you to avoid the curse of knowledge.
Guest Post: A new study measures 1.2 billion unique IPv4 addresses to provide a glimpse of what IPv4 usage activity looks like.
This blog post provides details about nine vulnerabilities affecting the IPv6 network protocol stack of EDK II, TianoCore's open source reference implementation of UEFI.
Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Internet providers.
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
I launched my startup this week. On a very modest scale, no debauched parties or penthouse offices on scads of VC money, just me and ...
Problems and Algorithms
Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.
Have you heard of gateways, proxies, load balancer, API gateways? This article explains what gateways are, what is their purpose and how they work with pract...
For years, people have been asking us to create a true multi-device experience that allows people to use WhatsApp on other devices without requiring a smartphone connection. Today, we’re announcing…
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM file transfers over SSH using Qodem
Twitter is funding a team to decentralize social media. I think they should start with messaging.
If the Tor Project, the Tor network, and Tor Browser were to disappear, what would happen? Not only would millions of global, daily users lose access to Tor’s software, but the diverse ecosystem of privacy, security, and anti-censorship applications that rely on the Tor network would cease to function.
"Where are you?" is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The telephone system's address plan embedded a certain amount of physical location information in the fixed line network, and a full E.164 telephone number indicated your location in terms of your country, and your area within that country. The…
Cloudflare is a service that acts as a middleman between a website and its end users, protecting it from various attacks. Unfortunately, those websites are often poorly configured, allowing an attacker to entirely bypass Cloudflare and run DDoS attacks or exploit web-based vulnerabilities that would otherwise be…
You may have already heard that the Galileo EU satellite navigation constellation is out of service since last Thursday July 11th. Currently the Galileo constellation status page shows that the status of most Galileo satellites is not usable because of a service outage. The satellites not affected by this outage are…
Raspberry Pi Pico W, our wireless-enabled variant of our Pico platform, built around our RP2040 microcontroller, now has Bluetooth support.
The Ultimate OpenBSD Router
The past few months have been incredibly exciting for the Cilium and BPF community, with rapid adoption and contributions from major ...
The Problem Video playback looks better with a higher scan rate. A lot of content that was designed for TV (EG almost all historical documentaries) is going to be 25Hz interlaced (UK and Australia)…
New capabilities of Same Day ACH become effective over phases to allow financial institutions and businesses to acclimate to a faster processing environment, as well as to ease the implementation effort. Beginning September 15, 2017, Same Day ACH is available for debit entries, enabling the same-day processing of…
Why 5G's faster data rates are possible: Shannon's Law explained in plain language.
Media over QUIC: Low-latency, high bitrate, mass fan-out is hard. Who knew?
While traveling through Dulles Airport last week, I noticed an Internet oddity. The nearby AT&T hotspot was fairly fast—that was a pleasant surprise.
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...
Two communicating processes on a single machine have a few options. They can use regular TCP sockets, UDP sockets, unix domain sockets, or shared memory. A recent project I was working on used Node…
