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Our European search index goes live
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
It’s time for the Internet to move on to more secure software, and that’s why our Memory Safety Initiative is coordinating work to make further improvements to the Rustls TLS library.
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Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my main workstation, too.
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How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server
Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi VPN server using OpenVPN, PiVPN, Surfshark, and WireGuard! You can set up a VPN tunnel for access to your home network while away.
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
We’ve been working to add IPv6 support to many different parts of AWS over the last couple of years, starting with Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT Core, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and S3 Transfer Acceleration, all building up to last month’s announcement of IPv6 support for EC2…
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The Nearest Neighbor Attack
In early February 2022, notably just ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volexity made a discovery that led to one of the most fascinating and complex incident investigations Volexity had ever worked. The investigation began when an alert from a custom detection signature Volexity had deployed at a customer site…
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Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
How NAT broke the concept of an internet connection
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Comcast internet speed improved with non-Comcast hardware
I am sure the first thought that goes through the mind of many when reading this headline is "of course Comcast is ripping me off!" Comcast is one of the most hated service providers in the U.S. They have some of the lowest customer satisfaction possible , their pricing tactics outrageo
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DNS doesn't “propagate”
DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
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SecurityBaseline.eu
On May 13, 2026, the website SecurityBaseline.eu was launched. It is a spin-off from the Dutch “Basisbeveiliging”, which has monitored baseline security for over a decade and is part of governmental policy. Three months ago we sent tens of thousands of e-mails to European governments indicating the new site would…
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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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What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router
I think it is incredibly cool that we can change a Linux system into a networking device. But have you ever wondered:
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Hacking the Postgres wire protocol
Inside PgDog's wire protocol handling: parsing simple and extended messages, using pg_query for AST inspection, and routing queries via the Postgres hash partition function.
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Authentication on meet.jit.si
What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]
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Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared
Compare Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE: what each managed Kubernetes service provides and which fits your applications and cloud services.
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YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
TLDR: I made a CLI tool that can resolve an IP address to a country, US state and even a city. https://github.com/jimaek/geolocation-tool It works well and confirms ipinfo's findings. Recently, I read how ipinfo finally proved what most technical people assumed: VPN providers don't actually maintain
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The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network
subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,
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Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam
Update: Emails from Tutanota.com no longer go to Spam in Outlook.
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Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system
This week we discussed the IPFS whitepaper by Juan Benet in my Distributed Systems Seminar. Remember peer-to-peer systems? IPFS is "pe...
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The IPv6 Transition
I wrote an article in May 2022, asking “Are we there yet?” about the transition to IPv6. At the time I concluded the article on an optimistic note, observing that we may not be ending the transition just yet, but we are closing in. I thought at the time that we won’t reach the end of this transition to IPv6 with a…