Hacker News with Generative AI: Cloudflare

Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP but Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support (phoronix.com)
The folks at Cloudflare have published another great engineering blog post with this time covering Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) as a very interesting addition to the TCP spec. But there they acknowledge the less than ideal Linux support especially on the client side.

Networking, Linux, Cloudflare, TCP, Software

4 points by ksec 15 days ago | 0 comments

Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience (ycombinator.com)
Cloudflare challenges have made large portions of the web unusable for me.

Web Browsing, Security, Cloudflare

523 points by blakeashleyjr 15 days ago | 304 comments

Ask HN: How to unblock RSS feeds on Cloudflare hosted sites? (ycombinator.com)
My blog[1] is hosted on Cloudflare pages. Fee of my readers complained that they’re unable to add my blog in multiple rss readers. Any ideas to bypass this ?

Web Development, RSS, Cloudflare

34 points by rishikeshs 27 days ago | 14 comments

Blocking of Cloudflare ECH in Russia (github.com/net4people)
Cloudflare's deployment of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is blocked in multiple networks in Russia since 2024-11-05.

Networking, Security, Russia, Cloudflare

5 points by DanAtC 37 days ago | 0 comments

Anyone Noticed the Outage? (ycombinator.com)
Cloudflare radar shows 50% global traffic drop. Like, instantly, about UTC 02:00 8 Dec. Apparently, all continents affected. Downdetector.com has a spike on all graphs about the same time. The internet is pretty centralized these days, so a sudden 50% drop is explainable. Still, I see no commentary on the media.

Internet Outage, Cloudflare

10 points by truefossil 40 days ago | 6 comments

Cloudflare incident on November 14, 2024, resulting in lost logs (cloudflare.com)
On November 14, 2024, Cloudflare experienced an incident which impacted the majority of customers using Cloudflare Logs.

Cybersecurity, Cloudflare, Server Errors

9 points by kagitac 53 days ago | 1 comments

Cloudflare.com's Robots.txt (cloudflare.com)

Security, Web Development, Cloudflare

145 points by sans_souse 62 days ago | 43 comments

How to Redirect a Cloudflare Domain to Another URL (johnys.io)
Every time I find myself trying to re-learn something I'm taking the time to document. Here's one simple example:

Web Development, Cloudflare, Domain Names, URL Redirection

7 points by johnys 64 days ago | 4 comments

Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their infrastructure? (shivangsnewsletter.com)
Cloudflare enables its customers to run serverless code at the edge globally at blazing speeds with almost zero cold startup time.

Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Infrastructure, Cloudflare

18 points by thunderbong 77 days ago | 0 comments

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users (openrss.org)
Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it.

RSS, Web Development, Cloudflare

559 points by campuscodi 93 days ago | 256 comments

U.S. Judge Asked to Collect $1.4M Moldovan Judgment Against Cloudflare (torrentfreak.com)
Two book authors are asking a U.S. federal court to enforce a $1.4 million piracy judgment against Cloudflare.

Law, Cybersecurity, Piracy, Cloudflare

78 points by isaacfrond 95 days ago | 33 comments

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (theregister.com)
Cloudflare on Thursday celebrated a victory over Sable Networks, which the former described as a "patent troll."

Legal Battles, Cloudflare, Patents, Software

451 points by Brajeshwar 105 days ago | 58 comments

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Since early September, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Cloud Computing

49 points by beefman 106 days ago | 19 comments

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks.

Cybersecurity, DDoS Attacks, Cloudflare, Internet Security, Network Security

10 points by syck 108 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS over HTTPS API to bulk search domain TLDs (supersaas.dev)
Check if a domain is available for your brand.

DNS, Cloudflare, Domain Registration, Programming, Tools

11 points by fayazara 108 days ago | 4 comments

Cloudflare Zero Trust DNS is down (cloudflarestatus.com)
We are currently investigating an issue where users on Cloudflare WARP may intermittently have issues resolving DNS addresses.

Internet, DNS, Cloudflare, Security, Networking

9 points by zhoutong 114 days ago | 0 comments

Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster (cloudflare.com)
Each time a user visits your web page, they are initiating a race to receive content as quickly as possible.

Web Development, Performance Optimization, Website Speed, Cloudflare

9 points by jgrahamc 115 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare has started re-enabling ECH (github.com/net4people)
Seems like Cloudflare has gradually started to enable Encrypted ClientHello support. You can see it on rutracker.org and bo0om.ru for example.

Security, Networking, Cloudflare, Encrypted ClientHello

8 points by btdmaster 117 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare helps Brazil block Elon Musk's X after platform briefly evaded ban (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk's X temporarily became accessible again in Brazil despite government orders requiring Internet service providers to block the social network.

Social Media, Censorship, Brazil, Elon Musk, Cloudflare

10 points by pseudolus 121 days ago | 1 comments

X working again in Brazil as Elon Musk finds way around ban (using Cloudflare) (bbc.co.uk)
Some X users in Brazil have said they can once again access the social media website, the BBC has learned.

Social Media, Brazil, Elon Musk, Censorship, Cloudflare

15 points by trollied 121 days ago | 28 comments

Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block (ycombinator.com)

Twitter, Cloudflare, Censorship, Brazil

54 points by fabioyy 122 days ago | 78 comments

Cloudflare Network Issues Affecting Service Reachability (cloudflarestatus.com)
We are currently investigating reports of certain IPv4 prefixes being unreachable, which is affecting certain Cloudflare CDN and application security services.

Networking, Cloud Services, Internet Outage, Cloudflare

38 points by RyeCombinator 122 days ago | 4 comments

Correlating Ownership of Sites Protected by Cloudflare (jamesmotherway.com)
Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy which allows it to provide content delivery network (CDN), web application firewall (WAF), and other services.

Security, Cloudflare, Web Services, Data Analysis

38 points by jamesmotherway 125 days ago | 6 comments

Full-stack RAG app built on Cloudflare (github.com/RafalWilinski)

Full-stack, RAG, Cloudflare, Software, Open Source

36 points by rwilinski 137 days ago | 1 comments

Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache (pillser.com)

Website Optimization, Cloudflare, Caching

83 points by lilouartz 146 days ago | 25 comments

The backbone behind Cloudflare's Connectivity Cloud (cloudflare.com)

Cloud Computing, Networking, Cloudflare

8 points by emot 165 days ago | 0 comments

Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites (arstechnica.com)

Cloudflare, Censorship, Abuse, Online Safety

4 points by dangle1 170 days ago | 0 comments

Too big to care? Our disappointment with Cloudflare anti-abuse posture (spamhaus.org)