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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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Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic
Cinia agreed to start a project to build a new subsea cable in the Arctic with Alaskan company Far North Digital.
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China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks at undersea communications cables: But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading firm working to deliver 5G telephony networks globally…
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Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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The State of SSL Stacks
The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.
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How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
What is QUIC protocol and how does it work ?
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How much EU is in DNS4EU?
This is another post that started after several toots on mastodon. Most of the things presented here were already tooted by other people, but I think this is a good chance to write a mini tutorial about what to look at. We’ll use DNS, whois, BGP and your favourite search engine. What is DNS4EU? To quote the web page…
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Why we need an Open Wireless movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because...
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Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?
There are four types of mobile internet connection: 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. We compare the real-world impact in terms of speeds and download times.
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Will there be a Distributed HTTP?
One of the things that came up at the HTTP Workshop was “distributed HTTP” — i.e., moving the Web from a client/server model to a more distributed one. This week, Brewster Khale (of Archive.org fame) talked about similar thoughts on his blog and at CCC. If you haven’t seen that yet, I’d highly suggest watching the…
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Building the Bell System
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top.
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How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN
This post is the first in a series detailing the evolution of network software at Fastly. We’re unique amongst our peers in that from inception, we’ve always viewed networking as an integral part of our product rather than a cost center. We rarely share what we do with the wider networking community however, in part…
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Attack of the Week: Apple iMessage
Today’s Washington Post has a story entitled “Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption”, which describes the results of some research my students and I have bee…
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Your Wireless Router Is Broken – Help Us Fix It At DEF CON
As part of our Open Wireless Movement, we set out to create router software that would make it easier for people to safely and smartly share part of their wireless network. Protecting hosts, so their security is not compromised because they offer open networks, is one of the goals of the router...
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Congestion Control Arrives in Tor 0.4.7-stable
Tor has released 0.4.7.7, the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control. Congestion control will result in significant performance improvements in Tor, once Exit relays upgrade. Relay operators: please read!
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Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy
Updates: See the Changes section for a list of changes since initial posting. After a long wait,...
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Stop using low DNS TTLs (2019)
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
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We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky
Our presence in the ATmosphere – Bluesky’s protocol – is no longer dependent on the platform’s standard infrastructure. Instead, our data now runs on Eurosky’s Personal Data Server (PDS).
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Summary of June 8 outage
We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. Here's a rundown of what happened, why, and what we're doing about it.
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You can run a DNS server (2025)
In case you were wondering whether this would mean... writing zone files with some arcane syntax that BIND 9 is apparently famous of, I hereby present the main point of this post a recommendation for which DNS server to choose.
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No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (2004)
You've come to this page because you've asked a question similar to the following:
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How to escape the Linux networking stack
Many products at Cloudflare aren’t possible without pushing the limits of network hardware and software to deliver improved performance, increased efficiency, or novel capabilities such as soft-unicast, our method for sharing IP subnets across data centers. Happily, most people do not need to know the intricacies of…
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WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home
I recently migrated my self-hosted services from a VPS (virtual private server) at a remote data center to a physical server at home. This change was motivated by wanting to be in control of the hardware and network where said services run, while trying to keep things as simple as possible. What follows is a…
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Happy Birthday, XMPP: 20th Anniversary of Jabber
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