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We have broken HTTP
If you’re a web developer, then you owe your job to HTTP. You should probably know more about it than you do.
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Networking & Internet
The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Thunderbolt, Displayport and Docks
Blog post — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks
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Free Public WiFi
Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not prepared to pay in excess of $15 a day for the internet. As I…
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Signal released end-to-end encrypted group calls a year ago, and since then we’ve scaled from support for 5 participants all the way to 40. There is no off the shelf software that would allow us to support calls of that size while ensuring that all communication is end-to-end encrypted, so we bui...
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AWS Application Load Balancer
We launched Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for AWS in the spring of 2009 (see New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch to see just how far AWS has come since then). Elastic Load Balancing has become a key architectural component for many AWS-powered applications. In…
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GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings
Finding Google Meet phone numbers and bruteforcing PINs to join random meetings
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Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
In-flight messaging I was on a Delta flight the other day, and I was thinking about how they offer free messaging from your smartphone. How do they limit the wifi? Maybe they have some basic filter that says “deny everything except the urls for these 3 messaging apps”, which makes sense conceptually. What if we don’t…
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SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
On 17 January 2024, the Government of the Czech Republic approved the material "Restarting the implementation of DNSSEC and IPv6 technologies in the state administration". On the basis of this decision, the Czech state administration will stop providing its services over IPv4 on 6 June 2032. Thus, the Czech Republic…
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Cloudflare One
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
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The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
Over the last few months, there’s been increased attention on networks and how they interconnect. CloudFlare runs a large network that interconnects with many others around the world.
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Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network
Today, at around 2:30 PM EST, Scripts went down. For most MIT students, this means a few class websites are inaccessible, a few friends' b...
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The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack
Learn how the new DDoS attack technique Rapid Reset works, and how to mitigate it
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Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to RC4-MD5 in late 2010
blog about networking, cameras, old gear, and xmpp
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We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Oooooh boy. Let’s get this out of the way first. Email sucks. Now to the how and the why. We’re builders. We love making tools to help designers and developers live a little bit easier. We’re pretty good at it. Marketing, though? We do our best, but the truth is, we don’t like to bother […]
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Simplicity of IRC
During discussions with my friends and colleagues, whenever the topic of chat protocols comes up, I often remark how simple the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol is and how this simplicity has fostered creativity in the lives of many young computer hobbyists growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For many of…
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USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)
Browse Intel product information for Intel® Core™ processors, Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Arc™ graphics and more.
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Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
Identify which devices of your company are impacted by five vulnerabilities that Armis found out in the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CPD).
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Tailscale Peer Relays
Tailscale Peer Relays provide predictable, performant access, entirely within your own tailnet.
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Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media and messaging platforms in the southern cities of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Hatay, as the ...
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