Why Gopher in 2026?(gopher.muffinlabs.com)

108 points by andsoitis 2 days ago | 59 comments

A personal phlog entry on SDF's Gopher space, viewed through a web proxy, reflecting on why someone would use Gopher in 2026 and on simpler, less commercial tech.

Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6

480 points by p1mrx 2 years ago | 256 comments

A Tell HN post noting that news.ycombinator.com now resolves to an IPv6 address alongside its IPv4 address, with DNS and ASN details.

A Trillion Characters(characters.fastserial.com)

24 points by andersmurphy 5 months ago | 12 comments

Testing “Exotic” P2P VPN(blog.nommy.moe)

97 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 22 comments

IPv6 Is Hard(techlog.jenslink.net)

221 points by miyuru 1 year ago | 338 comments

Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information

119 points by danradunchev 3 years ago | 79 comments

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS(fingerprint.com)

382 points by danpinto 3 years ago | 148 comments

Fingerprint blog post demonstrating how a website can brute-force a macOS user's real name via mDNS hostname lookups from the browser.

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint(blog.laserphile.com)

984 points by emctech 2 months ago | 317 comments

Blog post investigating how the AliExpress homepage uses silent WebAudio fingerprinting that keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones locked to the PC, cutting off phone audio.

A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking(biometricupdate.com)

29 points by paimapi 24 days ago | 7 comments

Biometric Update article on the launch of the federal AI portal America.gov and how its Login.gov authentication code sets a long-lived browser identifier, raising tracking questions.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)(taalas.com)

804 points by sidnarsipur 8 months ago | 436 comments

Taalas blog post by Ljubisa Bajic arguing that latency and cost limit AI adoption and presenting its approach to very fast (17k tokens/sec) inference hardware.