Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet

Exodus of IPv4 from War-Torn Ukraine (kentik.com)
The internet of Ukraine, noted for its resilience in the initial months following the Russian invasion, has been profoundly affected by three years of war. One notable change has been the exodus of a vital national commodity: IPv4 addresses.
Ukraine, War, Internet, IPv4, Technology
18 points by oavioklein 30 days ago | 0 comments
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet (lwn.net)
Internet, Technology, Opinion, Culture
11 points by todsacerdoti 30 days ago | 5 comments
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet (lwn.net)
Internet, Technology, Opinion, Cory Doctorow
154 points by howtofly 30 days ago | 129 comments
Google is quietly burying the internet – is there a solution? (ycombinator.com)
Google’s new AI Mode doesn’t just summarize the web. It sidelines it.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
11 points by stanislavb 31 days ago | 5 comments
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability (benjojo.co.uk)
At 7AM (UTC) on Wednesday May 20th 2025 a BGP message was propagated that triggered surprising (to many) behaviours with two major BGP implementations that are often used for carrying internet traffic.
Internet, Networking, Security, BGP
336 points by robin_reala 31 days ago | 160 comments
Google is burying the web alive (nymag.com)
Google Is Burying the Web Alive
Google, Search Engines, Internet, Technology
225 points by doener 32 days ago | 198 comments
Scaling the Let's Encrypt rate limits to prepare for a billion active TLS cert (letsencrypt.org)
Let’s Encrypt protects a vast portion of the Web by providing TLS certificates to over 550 million websites—a figure that has grown by 42% in the last year alone. We currently issue over 340,000 certificates per hour. To manage this immense traffic and maintain responsiveness under high demand, our infrastructure relies on rate limiting. In 2015, we introduced our first rate limiting system, built on MariaDB.
Security, Internet, Scaling, Rate Limiting, Web Performance
13 points by fanf2 32 days ago | 2 comments
Glitch Is Killing Free Hosting, So I'm Saving One Special Corner of the Internet (greg.technology)
Yesterday, Glitch announced that they’re nuking their free tier.
Web Hosting, Online Communities, Technology, Internet
14 points by gregsadetsky 35 days ago | 0 comments
Quantum Link: AOL before it was AOL (homeip.net)
I used AOL before it was AOL. And if you had a Commodore and a modem in the 1980s, you may have too. On May 24, 1985, Control Video reorganized and became Quantumlink, or Q-Link for short, on its way to reinventing itself as an online service for home computers. It opened for business November 5 of the same year.
History, Technology, Internet, Online Services, Commodore
6 points by rbanffy 35 days ago | 0 comments
"Free" VPNs much do route other peoples' traffic through your system (infosec.exchange)
Security, Privacy, VPNs, Internet, Networking
5 points by gpi 35 days ago | 0 comments
Investing in what moves the internet forward (mozilla.org)
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build.
Web Browsers, Internet, Mozilla, Business, Open Source
9 points by brycewray 36 days ago | 1 comments
U.S. ISPs Want Retrospective Immunity in Pirate Site Blocking Bill (torrentfreak.com)
At a recent Senate subcommittee hearing, the Motion Picture Association reiterated the need for a pirate site blocking regime in the United States. Behind the scenes, lawmakers and stakeholders appear to be progressing towards an agreed-upon position. One of the main roadblocks, according to Senator Coons, is that Internet providers are seeking retroactive immunity as part of a 'deal'.
Copyright, Law, Internet, Politics, Media
20 points by diyftw 38 days ago | 4 comments
UK study: Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet (theguardian.com)
Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey.
Internet, Youth, Technology, Survey
75 points by kawera 39 days ago | 33 comments
Constitutional Court Urged to End Piracy Blockades Now Hurting Millions (torrentfreak.com)
Cumbersome IP address blocking to fight piracy of LaLiga matches has also punished the innocent; an estimated 2.7 million innocent sites blocked during a single weekend according to recent data. Sounding the alarm over a potential threat to democracy, cybersecurity collective RootedCON has appealed to Spain's Constitutional Court to bring blocking to an end. Meanwhile, letters sent by LaLiga to journalists are being perceived as threats.
Copyright, Law, Spain, Censorship, Internet
8 points by gslin 39 days ago | 1 comments
The dial-up modem lives on, in office meeting rooms (digitalseams.com)
Remember the AOL dial-up sound? In case you forgot, here’s Bernz shredding it on Guitar Hero:
Technology, Nostalgia, Music, Internet
6 points by bobbiechen 40 days ago | 0 comments
We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts (theconversation.com)
In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information.
Health, Misinformation, Internet, Social Media
26 points by rntn 41 days ago | 9 comments
Upgrading my 25gbit internet router to VyOS (sschueller.github.io)
It has been a while since I setup my original router for my 25gbit internet connection. I decided it was time to upgrade but since I have some services running I did not want to be down for too long and purchased some new hardware which would allow me to experiment with VyOS without effecting my current setup.
Networking, VyOS, Hardware, Internet
4 points by sschueller 42 days ago | 2 comments
Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net)
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.
Internet, Art, Design, Web Development, Education
29 points by surprisetalk 43 days ago | 1 comments
The Internet 1997–2021 (opte.org)
The Internet is one of humanity's most important creations. This video takes you through a journey of incredible engineering. Starting from the first routing table captures (provided by the University of Oregon's RouteViews project) in 1997, we walk through the first Internet's astonishing growth to 2021.
Internet, History, Technology, Engineering
80 points by smusamashah 46 days ago | 27 comments
IAB Statement: Dotless Domains Considered Harmful (ietf.org)
It has come to the attention of the IAB that there are proposals for so-called “dotless” domains in the root zone, and that some existing top-level domains (TLDs) are already operating in such a mode. TLD operators of dotless domains are intending that single label names — those containing no dots — resolve to the TLD itself, rather than be resolved locally, within the context of the local site at which the user resides.
Internet, Domain Names, Security, Technology, Standards
7 points by xg15 47 days ago | 0 comments
Dotless Domains (lab.avl.la)
The term "dotless domain" usually refers to top-level domains (TLDs) – think com, gov, etc – that are reachable themselves using a web browser or email server.
Domain Names, Internet, Technology, Web Development
202 points by wibbily 48 days ago | 152 comments
Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web (volution.ro)
I think enough has already been written on the subject of fighting against rogue bots (today mostly for LLM scraping) that are ruining the web, not only by strip-mining human creativity and turning it into average slop, but especially by taking down hosting infrastructure through uncoordinated crawling that turns into DDoS.
Web Scraping, Bots, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
20 points by ciprian_craciun 48 days ago | 9 comments
IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation and ASN details (ipinfo.io)
Accurate country-level geolocation and ASN details for free. No monthly fees, no credit card required, and unlimited API requests.
Geolocation, API, Internet, Data, Free Services
56 points by tnr23 50 days ago | 18 comments
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants. It values freedom of connectivity and aims to imitate the curious and adventurous spirit of the early Internet:
Decentralized Networks, Open Source, Internet, Privacy, Security
336 points by doener 51 days ago | 125 comments
Is a Smaller Internet Better? (ycombinator.com)
Internet, Technology, Privacy, Censorship, Social Media
3 points by sawyersweet 51 days ago | 0 comments
The State of SSL Stacks (haproxy.com)
Given the critical role of SSL in securing internet communication and the challenges presented by evolving SSL technologies, reverse proxies like HAProxy must continuously adapt their SSL strategies to maintain performance and compatibility, ensuring a secure and efficient experience for users.
Security, SSL, Internet, Reverse Proxies
150 points by zdw 52 days ago | 46 comments
No Instagram, no privacy (wouterjanleys.com)
I somehow escaped having an Instagram account.
Social Media, Privacy, Internet
128 points by wouterjanl 53 days ago | 112 comments
Before Our Attention Was a Commodity: Memories of a Pre-Web Internet (sanfranciscan.org)
What happens when kids grow up with powerful technology they’re not allowed to understand? We risk creating a digital world with few true digital natives. How public terminals, old Macs, and a programming teacher shaped my political imagination and tech skills.
Technology, Internet, Education, Politics
11 points by chema 54 days ago | 0 comments
CORBA: Catching The Next Wave (1997) (archive.org)
Distributed objects are the next wave in Internet innovation. CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture defined by the Object Management Group (OMG), specifies how software objects distributed over a network can work together without regard to client and server operating systems and programming languages.
Distributed Computing, Object-Oriented Programming, Internet, Software Architecture
19 points by Lammy 54 days ago | 5 comments
Nationwide Power Outages Also Disrupt Internet Traffic in Portugal and Spain (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Power Outages, Portugal, Spain, Internet, Infrastructure
54 points by emot 60 days ago | 2 comments