Hacker News with Generative AI: Internet

Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts (cloudflare.com)
When cable cuts occur, whether submarine or terrestrial, they often result in observable disruptions to Internet connectivity, knocking a network, city, or country offline.
Internet, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Europe
112 points by hampus 8 hours ago | 24 comments
Let's not Encrypt (orlitzky.com)
Cryptography, Security, Internet
3 points by lr0 18 hours ago | 3 comments
Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)
Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every browser in every device supports it. Every server in every data center supports it. Why don’t we just flip the switch?
Security, Encryption, Internet, Technology, Anniversary
485 points by gslin 1 day ago | 177 comments
"So what happens if you buy http://us-east-1.com?" (twitter.com)
Domain Names, Internet, Web Hosting
27 points by notamy 1 day ago | 0 comments
Transitioning from the attention era to the automation era (dbreunig.com)
We are at a major inflection point in our internet journey: transitioning from earning and packaging attention to selling summarization and automation.
Internet, Automation, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Business
10 points by dbreunig 2 days ago | 2 comments
Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back (bloomberg.com)
Tim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. Instead of leaving our online data vulnerable to harvesting by large tech platforms and governments, we should control it. Our own little piece of the web or “personal cloud” should need permission to be accessed.
Privacy, Internet, Technology, Data Control
24 points by marban 3 days ago | 10 comments
Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web (wiby.me)
Submit a page here!
Search Engines, Web, Internet, Nostalgia
81 points by OuterVale 3 days ago | 20 comments
How public key cryptography works, using only simple math (quantamagazine.org)
The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.
Cryptography, Mathematics, Security, Internet
90 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 22 comments
What I Want from Mozilla (werd.io)
Like many of you, I received a survey today with the title: “What is your dream for Mozilla?” I filled it in, but the potential for Mozilla is so expansive and critical to the future of the internet that I wanted to address my thoughts in greater depth here.
Mozilla, Web Browsers, Technology, Internet
5 points by benwerd 5 days ago | 2 comments
Reddit on Overcoming Internet Addiction (reddit.com)
I’m a software engineer with an internet addiction that I’ve struggled with for about 18 years. I’ve likely spent half of my waking adult life sitting unproductively in front of a screen, which is a catastrophe I’d like to help other people avoid.
Addiction, Software Engineering, Reddit, Internet
8 points by jfinmaniv 8 days ago | 1 comments
Russia blocks websites that use Cloudflare's privacy service (therecord.media)
Russia’s media censor, Roskomnadzor, has blocked thousands of local websites that use an encryption feature from the U.S. company Cloudflare, designed to improve privacy and security for internet users.
Russia, Censorship, Privacy, Security, Internet
12 points by gslin 12 days ago | 0 comments
Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail ' Alert, Dies at 74 (nytimes.com)
Elwood Edwards, an announcer who voiced the ubiquitous AOL email alert “You’ve got mail!” at a time when many Americans were just beginning to learn how to navigate the internet, died on Tuesday at his home in New Bern, N.C. He was 74.
Obituary, Internet, History, Technology, Media
7 points by damethos 13 days ago | 3 comments
Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail' Alert, Dies at 74 (gizmodo.com)
Millennials, pour one out. TMZ reports that Elwood Edwards, the voice behind AOL’s iconic “You’ve Got Mail” audio message, has died at age 74.
Obituary, Technology, Music, Internet, Nostalgia
12 points by Krontab 13 days ago | 8 comments
Upcoming changes to the DNSSEC root trust anchor (dns-oarc.net)
We are reaching out to inform you of important changes to the DNSSEC trust anchor in the root zone. If you manage a validating DNS resolver or a tool that interacts with the DNS root zone you might need to change your software to handle the changes. This letter provides a summary of the upcoming changes and gives pointers to resources that describe them in detail.
DNSSEC, Security, Internet, Root Zone, DNS
111 points by todsacerdoti 15 days ago | 23 comments
Netnews: The Origin Story [pdf] (cs.columbia.edu)
History, Computer Science, Networking, Internet
60 points by tkhattra 16 days ago | 5 comments
The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet has been identified (reddit.com)
About two weeks ago I came across an old newspaper article in the Nordwest Zeitung archive, while researching Hörfest bands. The article was about a band called FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in Sep 1984 and their music was described as Rock with Wave and Pop influences. It also mentioned their members and one of them I recognised from a Hörfest 83 band called Phret.
Music, Internet, Mystery, Germany
23 points by notamy 17 days ago | 5 comments
Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow? (ycombinator.com)
thought experiment: if the internet were to go down tomorrow for an indefinite period, what content would you most want to download and preserve?
Internet, Content Preservation, Technology, Thought Experiment
259 points by gooob 18 days ago | 310 comments
They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now (brownstone.org)
Instances of censorship are growing to the point of normalization.
Censorship, Internet
10 points by TaurenHunter 20 days ago | 1 comments
'We Were Wrong': An Oral History of WIRED's Original Website (wired.com)
With HotWired, we introduced the world to the internet. Hyperlinks! Verticals! Banner ads! Cookies! Thirty years later, the hangover is real.
History, Web Development, Journalism, Internet, Technology
4 points by cpeterso 21 days ago | 0 comments
Recent BGP leak that redirected internet traffic through Russia (kentik.com)
Welcome to a new blog series entitled Beyond Their Intended Scope which intends to shed some light on BGP mishaps that may have escaped the attention of the community but are worthy of analysis.
Security, Networking, BGP, Russia, Internet
57 points by vladyslavfox 23 days ago | 18 comments
NY Times gets 230 wrong again (techdirt.com)
The NY Times has real difficulty not misrepresenting Section 230. Over and over and over and over and over again it has misrepresented how Section 230 works, even having to once run this astounding correction (to an article that had a half-page headline saying Section 230 was at fault):
Media, Law, Internet, Misinformation
149 points by hn_acker 24 days ago | 128 comments
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents (infrequently.org)
The web is losing. Badly. But a comeback is possible.
Web Development, Platform Strategy, Internet
105 points by wmanley 24 days ago | 66 comments
Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web (freenet.org)
The centralization of the internet poses a fundamental threat to individual freedom.
Decentralization, Internet, Freedom, Privacy, Technology
179 points by udev4096 25 days ago | 99 comments
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted (bryanbraun.com)
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name.
Domain Names, Internet, Websites
936 points by bryanbraun 26 days ago | 188 comments
An Introduction to BGP from the operator of a small AS (quantum5.ca)
Border Gateway Protocol (often abbreviated BGP) is a critical protocol that makes the modern Internet possible, yet remains one of its most poorly understood parts even among its long-time users. At the same time, it has played a significant role in several high-profile outages on the Internet.
Networking, Internet, BGP, Security
60 points by rsecora 28 days ago | 3 comments
Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC (arstechnica.com)
It's been just a week since US telecom regulators announced a formal inquiry into broadband data caps, and the docket is filling up with comments from users who say they shouldn't have to pay overage charges for using their Internet service.
Internet, Regulation, Consumer Advocacy, Telecommunications
85 points by thimabi 28 days ago | 43 comments
ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network (theregister.com)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using the 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 IPv4 address blocks for internal networks.
Internet, Domain Names, Networking, Security
6 points by teddyh 29 days ago | 0 comments
Distribute(d) trust – The key to global encryption access (globalencryption.org)
For many vulnerable Internet users, the Tor network is the only way to gain access to encrypted services. It’s made possible by relay operators, the thousands of volunteers who donate their time, technical expertise, and hardware. Join us for a roundtable discussion with individual and institutional relay operators to learn more about the ins and outs of powering a safer, more equitable internet. The virtual live event is part of Tor’s contributions to Global Encryption Day.
Security, Privacy, Tor, Internet, Technology
4 points by pabs3 30 days ago | 0 comments
QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet (arxiv.org)
QUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance.
Networking, QUIC, Performance, Internet
313 points by carlos-menezes 32 days ago | 280 comments
I Uploaded 50 TB of Ubuntu ISOs to China (reddit.com)
Signed in to my ISP and saw 36 TB of traffic last month... a normal month for me is 3-4 TB.
Internet, Bandwidth, China, Linux
5 points by P_qRs 35 days ago | 0 comments