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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 142 posts.
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Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines
Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
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Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter
Taking apart a very cheap USB to Ethernet adapter and pondering on the parts found inside.
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Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s
Deepening watsonx capabilities to address enterprise gen AI data needs with DataStax.
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State Laws That Stop Cities From Installing Fast Internet
For decades, municipal broadband operations have been subject to a minefield of restrictions and barriers designed to make the prospect of establishing or maintaining a community broadband network costly, difficult, and unsustainable. The Biden administration initially pledged that the Broadband Equity, Access, and…
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Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's
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Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
That’s the title of RFC 7258 , also known as BCP 188 (where BCP stands for “Best Current Practice”); it represents Internet Engineering Task Force consensus on the fact that many powerful well-funded entities feel it is appropriate to monitor people’s use of the Net, without telling those people. The consensus is…
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HTTP/1.1 just got a major update
These documents make the original specification for HTTP/1.1 obsolete . As a HTTP geek, this is a big deal.
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Game servers: UDP vs TCP
When writing networked games, the question of UDP vs TCP will eventually come up. Typically you will hear people say things like: “Unless you’re doing action games, you can use TCP̶…
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At Apple’s request, we removed the ability to “Send” files to other services
UPDATE 12/11/14: After a considerate conversation with Apple, Transmit iOS 1.1.2 has been released with restored “Send To” functionality.
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HTTP 308 Incompetence Expected
Internet History The Internet from every angle has always been a house of cards held together with defective duct tape. It's a miracle tha...
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How NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Inside Shellshock: How hackers are using it to exploit systems
On Wednesday of last week, details of the Shellshock bash bug emerged. This bug started a scramble to patch computers, servers, routers, firewalls, and other computing appliances using vulnerable versions of bash.
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No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown
Microsoft served a federal court order and seized 22 of our most commonly used domains because they claimed that some of the subdomains have been abused.
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Network Neutrality
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How Unreliable is UDP?
Unlike TCP, UDP doesn't provide any delivery or ordering guarantees. Put into practice, just how bad, or good, is UDP?
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Let's Talk About Beacons
Let's Talk About Beacons If you’ve been following the tech scene lately, you may have heard a thing or two about “Beacons”. What are Beacons? Beacons are hardware devices emitting a unique signature...
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Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack
On Monday we mitigated a large DDoS that targeted one of our customers. The attack peaked just shy of 400Gbps. We've seen a handful of other attacks at this scale, but this is the largest attack we've seen that uses NTP amplification.
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HFT in my backyard – II
This is insane: more than 28,000 visitors came to read Part I of “HFT in my backyard”. Some of them are inevitably bots, but my logs reveal the majority to be human readers from bank desks, technol…
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Tor security advisory: “relay early” traffic confirmation attack
This advisory was posted on the tor-announce mailing list. SUMMARY: On July 4 2014 we found a...
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HFT in My Backyard
INTRO As soon as the summer sun returns to Belgium, there is a natural human migration from Francophone Wallonia to the west coast sea in the Flemish part of the country. Here, à la mer du Nord, pe…
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Mandatory encryption on XMPP starts today
Last year Peter Saint-Andre laid out a plan for strengthening the security of the XMPP network. The manifesto, to date signed by over 70 XMPP service operators and software developers, offered a rallying point for those interested in ensuring the security of XMPP for its users. Today is the date that the manifesto…