Networking
- Will there be a 7G?
- .name Termination
- Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
- France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
- Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
- Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
- Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
- _for-sale DNS records
- Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
- Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers
- Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
- Self-host your mail server
- HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router
- Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
- OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
- Africans Are Turning to Starlink
- Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
- .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
- Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
- Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
- Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off
- We’re making Bunny DNS free
- The new HTTP QUERY method explained
- Google Hits 50% IPv6
- RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
- 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module
- TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
- Iroh 1.0
- I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet
- Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
- Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
- IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
- I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)
- DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
- Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
- An Introduction to Meshtastic
- OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
- Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
- DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
- BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
- FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
- 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
- Networking changes coming in macOS 27
- New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
- Email could have been X.400 times better
- The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
- Why is IPv6 so complicated?
- Cloudflare Email Service
- Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
- IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
- IPv6 is the only way forward
- Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
- IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
- New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
- How to turn anything into a router
- macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
- Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
- SSH has no Host header
- Starlink Mini as a failover
- Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today
- A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
- An old photo of a large BBS (2022)
- The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
- SSH Secret Menu
- Never buy a .online domain
- Running My Own XMPP Server
- Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
- When Every Network is 192.168.1.x
- Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
- Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
- Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
- Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
- IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
- Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
- Project Gemini
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
- Wireguard FPGA
- Retiring Test-Ipv6.com
- Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
- Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
- IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes
- Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
- Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
- The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer
- Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
- We know a little more about Amazon's satellites
- If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
- 56k modems relied on digital trunk lines
- ARPA is funding cheap community-owned gigabit fiber to neglected neighborhoods
- NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
- Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones
- Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
- Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
- Building Ultra Long Range Toslink
- Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi
- Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets
- Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
- Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer
- FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
- Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit
- Protecting undersea internet cables is a tech nightmare
- No NAT November: My month without IPv4
- OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
- ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers
- Starlink Direct to Cell
- WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration
- It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
- Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
- Yggdrasil Network
- I sent an Ethernet packet
- Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked
- XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging
- Facebook building subsea cable that will encompass the world
- Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
- Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
- 418 I’m a teapot
- Understanding Round Robin DNS
- AWS data center latencies, visualized
- The IPv6 Transition
- QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Why does FM sound better than AM?
- CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
- You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth
- How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
- Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging
- WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe
- Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard
- Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)
- Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims
- Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs
- Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server
- Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Protocol Firehose by >99%
- Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
- We accidentally burned through 200GB of proxy bandwidth in 6 hours
- Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations
- Support for IPv6
- HTTP: , FTP:, and Dict:?
- Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail
- Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP
- QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
- Intent to unship: HTTP/2 Push
- Show HN: OBS Live-streaming with 120ms latency
- The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
- Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased
- Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
- Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy
- .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
- Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"
- Free DDNS with Cloudflare and a cronjob
- The New Internet
- Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?
- PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
- ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs
- Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage
- Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line
- Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
- Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC
- Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide
- First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini
- We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
- Special-use domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)
- 60 kHz (2022)
- Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
- What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like
- Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email
- ADSL works over wet string (2017)
- Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
- It's always TCP_NODELAY
- Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains
- APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
- Start Your Own ISP
- Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked
- Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
- Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows
- usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
- Why No IPv6?
- There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
- Going in circles without a real-time clock
- Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?
- How engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. saved Ethernet
- Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
- The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
- Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
- A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
- WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
- 2600.network Dialup Service
- Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
- FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps
- HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained
- JIT WireGuard
- Deploying fiber in the home
- Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests
- New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency
- Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed
- Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU
- Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform
- Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users
- So you think you understand IP fragmentation?
- Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home
- 250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released
- How SSH port became 22 (2017)
- How QUIC is displacing TCP for speed
- AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
- AWS charge for using IPv4 expected to bring $1B/year and speed up IPv6 adoption
- Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims
- Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD
- Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
- Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
- Curl HTTP/3 Performance
- Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
- Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
- Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours
- Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
- Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
- WiFi 7 is officially here, but routers are pricey. Do you need it yet
- Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
- Willow Protocol
- Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
- High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98
- Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service
- What Was ISDN?
- 2.7M Brits still use a 3G only handset
- Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
- SpaceX launches first phone service satellites
- Starlink launches "cellphone towers in space" for use with LTE phones
- Outlook/Hotmail is no longer blocking my mail server
- Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market
- I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"
- SSH over HTTPS
- Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record
- SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC
- Homes need to be built for better internet
- Choose your own IP
- That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net
- Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed
- Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
- Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (2019)
- I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing
- Why did base64 win against uuencode?
- Why I tend not to use content negotiation
- Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (2001)
- Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
- AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical services don't support IPv6