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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 56 posts.
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China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
On March 27 The following message was posted on the official GitHub blog: We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.coms history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These incl[...]
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Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet
Facebook's Internet.org project, which offers people from developing countries free mobile access to selected websites, has been pitched as a philanthropic initiative to connect two thirds of the world who don’t yet have Internet access. We completely agree that the global digital divide should be...
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Philips Hue blocks 3rd party lights
Philips has published a firmware update that blocks pairing of any 3rd party light.
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How to receive a million packets per second
Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!"
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WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
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Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
Video codecs remain an area of active research and development. The current generation video codec is H.264 – in widespread usage on the Internet. Cisco
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Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay
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Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks
Similar to how it's getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool's gags from yesteryear… In 2011 we joked "easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD", in which we posited a thinly veiled…
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Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to One Wired Broadband Provider
Since 2010 the US government has spent $3.3B on broadband infrastructure yet 39 Million Americans only have access to 1 wired broadband provider. See the worst states and learn more about your state.
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How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange...
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HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
Today CloudFlare is introducing HTTP/2 support for all customers using SSL/TLS connections, while still supporting SPDY. There is no need to make a decision between SPDY or HTTP/2.
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Introducing “6-pack”: the first open hardware modular switch
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A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport
Last year we announced QUIC , a UDP-based transport protocol for the modern Internet. Over the last quarter, we’ve been increasing the amo...
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Tor Exit Nodes in Libraries – Pilot
Hello Tor Community! We first introduced you to the Library Freedom Project back in February...
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What’s new in HAProxy 1.6
13th of October 2015, Willy Terrau announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development. A total of 1156 commits from 59 people were committed.
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Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again. The Draft Online Regulation...
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Tor Messenger Beta: Chat Over Tor, Easily
WARNING STARTS As of March 2018, Tor Messenger is no longer maintained and you should NOT use...
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Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering
In two previous posts we've discussed how to receive 1M UDP packets per second and how to reduce the round trip time. We did the experiments on Linux and the performance was very good considering it's a general purpose operating system.