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6,803 stories · 117 in 30 days · Updated Sep 28, 2026

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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20261,013 stories
We built our house for LAN parties (2024)↗ lanparty.house · HN · 370 comments · 591 points · Sep 05, 2026
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth↗ partyon.xyz · HN · 159 comments · 483 points · May 03, 2026
IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark↗ google.com · HN · 621 comments · 816 points · Apr 15, 2026
How to turn anything into a router↗ nbailey.ca · HN · 261 comments · 777 points · Mar 30, 2026
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout↗ loworbitsecurity.com · HN · 449 comments · 941 points · Jan 05, 2026
2025894 stories
It's Always TCP_NODELAY↗ brooker.co.za · HN · 179 comments · 491 points · Dec 22, 2025
How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack↗ fabiensanglard.net · HN · 150 comments · 528 points · Nov 18, 2025
Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)↗ zenodo.org · HN · 56 comments · 608 points · Oct 20, 2025
Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)↗ blinry.org · HN · 167 comments · 976 points · Sep 16, 2025
Boycott IETF 127↗ boycott-ietf127.org · HN · 358 comments · 572 points · Mar 21, 2025
20241,002 stories
I sent an Ethernet packet↗ github.com · HN · 125 comments · 426 points · Nov 11, 2024
Show HN: We made a small and cheap network switch↗ docs.murexrobotics.com · HN · 158 comments · 666 points · Jun 16, 2024
Engineering for Slow Internet↗ brr.fyi · HN · 386 comments · 1008 points · May 31, 2024
It's always TCP_NODELAY↗ brooker.co.za · HN · 268 comments · 884 points · May 09, 2024
Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours↗ rachelbythebay.com · HN · 175 comments · 423 points · Jan 25, 2024
2023988 stories
Electric light transmits data faster than Wi-Fi↗ techxplore.com · HN · 68 comments · 89 points · Dec 30, 2023
37C3: Fuzzing the TCP/IP Stack↗ events.ccc.de · HN · 8 comments · 135 points · Dec 30, 2023
IP over Spaghetti (2019)↗ github.com · HN · 60 comments · 195 points · Dec 22, 2023
Cisco to acquire Isovalent↗ isovalent.com · HN · 71 comments · 142 points · Dec 21, 2023
eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection↗ who.ldelossa.is · HN · 16 comments · 138 points · Dec 21, 2023
20221,073 stories
We need a replacement for TCP in the datacenter [pdf]↗ web.stanford.edu · HN · 313 comments · 478 points · Oct 31, 2022
Final thoughts on Ubiquiti↗ krebsonsecurity.com · HN · 228 comments · 539 points · Aug 31, 2022
Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute↗ cv6.poinsignon.org · HN · 150 comments · 633 points · Aug 26, 2022
Resolving an unusual WiFi issue↗ blog.ando.fyi · HN · 122 comments · 594 points · Aug 19, 2022
Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]↗ nabstreamingsummit.com · HN · 391 comments · 590 points · Aug 19, 2022
2021894 stories
Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers↗ jahed.dev · HN · 223 comments · 614 points · Dec 21, 2021
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]↗ people.freebsd.org · HN · 292 comments · 707 points · Sep 19, 2021
QUIC is now RFC 9000↗ fastly.com · HN · 235 comments · 561 points · May 28, 2021
This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem↗ nns.ee · HN · 201 comments · 711 points · Apr 02, 2021
Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface↗ twitter.com · HN · 319 comments · 634 points · Mar 29, 2021
2020939 stories
Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware↗ github.com · HN · 92 comments · 476 points · Dec 17, 2020
NAT Slipstreaming↗ samy.pl · HN · 178 comments · 555 points · Oct 31, 2020
Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth↗ blog.archive.org · HN · 199 comments · 677 points · May 11, 2020
A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP↗ 0x90.psaux.io · HN · 181 comments · 611 points · Mar 25, 2020
How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet↗ blog.benjojo.co.uk · HN · 162 comments · 433 points · Feb 19, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)↗ lanparty.house · HN · 370 comments · 591 points · Sep 05, 2026
HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances↗ spectrum.ieee.org · HN · 71 comments · 189 points · Sep 21, 2026
Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)↗ pages.cs.wisc.edu · HN · 15 comments · 109 points · Sep 13, 2026
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable↗ maurycyz.com · HN · 184 comments · 199 points · Aug 31, 2026
An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol↗ vincent.bernat.ch · HN · 9 comments · 108 points · Sep 08, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)↗ lanparty.house · HN · 370 comments · 591 points · Sep 05, 2026
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable↗ maurycyz.com · HN · 184 comments · 199 points · Aug 31, 2026
HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances↗ spectrum.ieee.org · HN · 71 comments · 189 points · Sep 21, 2026
Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)↗ pages.cs.wisc.edu · HN · 15 comments · 109 points · Sep 13, 2026
An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol↗ vincent.bernat.ch · HN · 9 comments · 108 points · Sep 08, 2026
Building my own network stack↗ blog.lyc8503.net · HN · 96 comments · 101 points · Aug 30, 2026
Getting Started with AT Protocol↗ bnb.im · HN · 28 comments · 87 points · Sep 01, 2026
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs↗ dreamstation.systems · HN · 68 comments · 57 points · Sep 05, 2026
Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review↗ servethehome.com · HN · 31 comments · 47 points · Sep 03, 2026
I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense↗ praveentechworld.com · HN · 27 comments · 45 points · Sep 19, 2026

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