Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet

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 21 hours 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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
28 points by surprisetalk 8 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 11 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 12 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 12 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 13 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 15 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 15 days ago | 125 comments
Is a Smaller Internet Better? (ycombinator.com)
Internet, Technology, Privacy, Censorship, Social Media
3 points by sawyersweet 16 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 16 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 18 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 19 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 19 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 25 days ago | 2 comments
Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers (theregister.com)
Asia has become the second region in the world to reach 50 percent IPv6 capability, according to data from labs run by the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC).
Internet, Technology, Asia, IPv6, Networking
28 points by burritosphinx 29 days ago | 4 comments
A Fediverse Instance on .e164.arpa (e164.arpa)
we've seen fedi instances on ip6.arpawe've seen them on in-addr.arpahow about one on the mapped phone number domain of St. Helena (+290)?0.9.2.e164.arpayes. it's mine now.
Fediverse, Domain Names, Internet, Technology
8 points by edent 30 days ago | 0 comments
Ninth Circuit Takes a Wrecking Ball to Internet Personal Jurisdiction Law (ericgoldman.org)
Let’s start with a tiny piece of good news. The majority says: “The parties agree among themselves that we need not develop an internet-specific standard for personal jurisdiction. We also agree.” No need for Internet exceptionalist rules. Yay!
Law, Internet, Jurisdiction
88 points by hn_acker 30 days ago | 65 comments
Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet (nlnet.nl)
42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet
Open Source, Internet, Funding
473 points by edent 30 days ago | 228 comments
Court Permanently Enjoins Ohio's Segregate-and-Suppress/Parental Consent Law (ericgoldman.org)
Ohio enacted a segregate-and-suppress law that requires regulated websites to obtain parental consent before minors can access certain site features.
Law, Ohio, Privacy, Children, Internet
8 points by hn_acker 32 days ago | 2 comments
The campaign to subvert Africa's internet registry (capeindependent.com)
In ten days, AFRINIC, an NGO which functions as the internet registry for the African continent, is supposed be holding its regular board elections, but these have been postponed, and await plans from the official receiver who has taken charge of the company.
Internet, Africa, Technology, Politics
124 points by greyface- 32 days ago | 36 comments
Ask HN: Is 4chan Offline Forever? (ycombinator.com)
According to Hiro's latest update on the matter, no.
Online Communities, 4chan, Internet
12 points by HITBIT 33 days ago | 7 comments
Crawler operators, please stop destroying the commons (lunnova.dev)
Goodwill for crawling/scraping has rapidly been depleted
Web Scraping, Ethics, Internet
7 points by xena 34 days ago | 0 comments
List of Controversies Surrounding GoDaddy (wikipedia.org)
GoDaddy has been involved in many controversies since its foundation in 1997.
Controversies, GoDaddy, Domain Names, Internet
7 points by blenderob 36 days ago | 0 comments
DNS Blackhole (AS112) Service (iana.org)
Domain Name System resolvers can erroneously perform DNS lookups associated with private-use IP addresses, which generates a significant amount of undesirable Internet traffic. To combat this, a number of "blackhole" or "sinkhole" DNS servers exist to capture this traffic and reduce the load of DNS lookups.
DNS, Security, Network Traffic, Internet
6 points by mparkms 36 days ago | 0 comments