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Would we still create Nebula today?
Spoiler: Yes. (But the "why" matters. A lot.)
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Networking & Internet
The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 1,406 posts.
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Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%
Automatic Key Exchange probes TLS 1.3-capable customer origins to learn which key agreement algorithms they support. We then lead with the most secure algorithm when connecting to the origin, preferring post-quantum connections wherever the origin supports it.
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What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.
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Andromeda 2.1 reduces GCP’s intra-zone latency by 40%
The latest version of Andromeda reduces network latency between Compute Engine VMs by 40% over Andromeda 2.0 and by nearly a factor of 8 since we first launched Andromeda in 2014.
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Introducing the Cloudflare Onion Service
Two years ago this week Cloudflare introduced Opportunistic Encryption, a feature that provided additional security and performance benefits to websites that had not yet moved to HTTPS.
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Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. We were made aware of issues with login at 18:12 UTC / 13:12 ET and started implementing fixes to critical systems at 18:39 UTC / 13:39 ET. This outage affected our users and we apologize for the…
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IP Addressing in 2021
What can IPv4 and IPv6 addressing in 2021 tell us about the changing nature of the network?
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Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust
Rayfish is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN. Connect your devices by cryptographic identity. No port forwarding, no hosted server to trust. Share a code, and you're on the same encrypted LAN.
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Vector is now called Riot
Three months ago we launched the public beta of Vector at the electric atmosphere of the Decentralized Web Summit, bringing our…
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Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail
Guest Post: What I learned when I figured out how to navigate FCC filings.
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Tailscale 4via6 – Connect Edge Deployments at Scale
In this post, we’re highlighting 4via6 subnet routing — a powerful way to extend Tailscale’s mesh across entire edge or customer networks. It’s ideal for scenarios where traditional VPNs struggle, like fleets of robots, sensors, or isolated cloud environments.
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Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Networked Physics in Virtual Reality
Recently, Oculus teamed up with developer Glenn Fiedler for research into networked physics in VR. Below is a guest post from Glenn detailing his research.
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Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.
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Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attempts to make a machine or network unavailable by flooding it with overwhelming amounts of traffic.
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The HTTP Query Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Venezuela's Internet Crackdown Escalates into Regional Blackout
For the last month, Venezuela has been caught up in widespread protests against its government. The Maduro administration has responded by cracking down on what it claims as being foreign interference online. As that social unrest has escalated, the state's censorship has widened: from the removal...
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16 Years with IPv6
Torbjörn Eklöv, Co-Founder and Owner of Interlan, was an early adopter of IPv6. He shares the benefits of IPv6 adoption and offers advice to anyone who wants to enable IPv6 in their network with a static configuration from an ISP.
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SSH Keygen – RSA, DSA, Ecdsa, EdDSA
Comparing SSH keys: RSA, DSA, ECDSA, and Ed25519 explained, with a straight algorithm recommendation and the move from keys to certificates. Read on.
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Decentralizing Distribution
Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and distribution (...
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Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against quantum computers. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently created a…
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data
This post discusses monitoring and tuning the Linux networking stack in great detail with the focus on sending data.
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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
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Strange domain names that developers bought
Not every domain is serious business. Here's a few of the fun ones that we at Stack Overflow owned, as well as those owned by our community.
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Calling All Broadcasters
Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you. BitTorrent Live is a new peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. Built with users, from scratch, it’s designed to take the principles of…