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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026170 stories
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 40 comments · 149 points · Sep 23, 2026
New Nginx Exploit↗ github.com · HN · 101 comments · 444 points · May 14, 2026
FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies↗ agwa.name · HN · 101 comments · 424 points · Apr 29, 2026
I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs↗ surfacedby.com · HN · 23 comments · 135 points · Apr 20, 2026
Why I forked httpx↗ tildeweb.nl · HN · 181 comments · 252 points · Mar 25, 2026
2025187 stories
Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol↗ blog.nginx.org · HN · 298 comments · 810 points · Aug 13, 2025
Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin↗ simonwillison.net · HN · 329 comments · 336 points · Jul 06, 2025
HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere↗ httptoolkit.com · HN · 498 comments · 424 points · Mar 14, 2025
There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer↗ byroot.github.io · HN · 256 comments · 334 points · Feb 25, 2025
Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS↗ caddyserver.com · HN · 227 comments · 568 points · Feb 16, 2025
2024242 stories
Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support↗ mitmproxy.org · HN · 75 comments · 388 points · Oct 04, 2024
Nginx has moved to GitHub↗ mailman.nginx.org · HN · 162 comments · 267 points · Sep 06, 2024
Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS↗ devonperoutky.super.site · HN · 35 comments · 314 points · May 26, 2024
Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork↗ mailman.nginx.org · HN · 475 comments · 1131 points · Feb 14, 2024
--libcurl↗ everything.curl.dev · HN · 132 comments · 692 points · Jan 29, 2024
2023200 stories
Nghttp3 1.0.0 – HTTP/3 library written in C↗ nghttp2.org · HN · 5 comments · 11 points · Oct 22, 2023
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.58 (CVE fixes)↗ downloads.apache.org · HN · 1 comments · 10 points · Oct 19, 2023
Nginx Unit – Universal web app server↗ github.com · HN · 4 comments · 21 points · Sep 10, 2023
Ngrok-rs – safe and portable network ingress to your Rust apps↗ ngrok.com · HN · 1 comments · 12 points · Mar 29, 2023
Faster MySQL with HTTP/3↗ planetscale.com · HN · 3 comments · 32 points · Jan 04, 2023
2022185 stories
35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx↗ blog.tjll.net · HN · 143 comments · 399 points · Sep 16, 2022
Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora↗ phoronix.com · HN · 141 comments · 334 points · Sep 16, 2022
The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots↗ nginx.com · HN · 229 comments · 388 points · Aug 23, 2022
Avoiding the top Nginx configuration mistakes↗ nginx.com · HN · 106 comments · 417 points · Feb 22, 2022
Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx↗ nginx.com · HN · 346 comments · 1384 points · Jan 18, 2022
2021180 stories
Apache Traffic Server↗ trafficserver.apache.org · HN · 37 comments · 182 points · Nov 02, 2021
Nginx Playground↗ jvns.ca · HN · 41 comments · 603 points · Sep 24, 2021
Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file↗ sqlite.org · HN · 339 comments · 715 points · Jun 08, 2021
Big list of HTTP static server one-liners↗ gist.github.com · HN · 95 comments · 282 points · May 13, 2021
Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack↗ blog.detectify.com · HN · 58 comments · 409 points · Feb 25, 2021
2020248 stories
HTTP/2 Push is dead↗ evertpot.com · HN · 168 comments · 354 points · Dec 03, 2020
Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed↗ me.shodan.io · HN · 169 comments · 430 points · Sep 22, 2020
Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy↗ dropbox.tech · HN · 237 comments · 427 points · Jul 30, 2020
Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI↗ github.com · HN · 57 comments · 281 points · Jun 22, 2020
HTTP static server one-liners↗ gist.github.com · HN · 66 comments · 286 points · Jan 18, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 40 comments · 149 points · Sep 23, 2026
Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS↗ fdeploy.com · HN · 23 comments · 35 points · Aug 25, 2026
SHOW HN: I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 1 comments · 6 points · Sep 17, 2026
Nginx 1.31.5 introduces a built-in JSON parser, Control API, and predicate locat↗ linuxcompatible.org · HN · 0 comments · 12 points · Sep 03, 2026
XXCancel – Nitter Redirector↗ xxcancel.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 14, 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 just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 40 comments · 149 points · Sep 23, 2026
Nginx 1.31.5 introduces a built-in JSON parser, Control API, and predicate locat↗ linuxcompatible.org · HN · 0 comments · 12 points · Sep 03, 2026
SHOW HN: I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 1 comments · 6 points · Sep 17, 2026
Show HN: Browser-based Nginx config generator with live preview↗ tools.techtransit.org · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 09, 2026
Show HN: SimpleW – Lightweight C# Web Server with optional addons↗ simplew.net · HN · 0 comments · 6 points · Sep 08, 2026
XXCancel – Nitter Redirector↗ xxcancel.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 14, 2026
Nginx Control API: View In-Memory Configuration and Reload via HTTP Requests↗ blog.nginx.org · HN · 1 comments · 4 points · Sep 21, 2026
Nginx 1.30.5 and 1.31.6 fix HTTP/3 buffer overflow (CVE-2026-90439)↗ nginx.org · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 16, 2026
Awesome-tunneling – List of ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale and related↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Sep 18, 2026
Ask HN: Looking for an Invite for Lobster.rs↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 1 comments · 3 points · Sep 03, 2026

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