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madsushion .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

It costs ~$200,000 to apply for a TLD, and there's an ongoing renewal cost in the tens of thousands of USD.

madsushion Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45

Thanks for sharing. Although 'Boromir' and 'One does not simply' should absolutely be a match!

madsushion When someone says they hate your product

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup

madsushion Steam Frame

There's an expansion port on the front with a camera interface, so you could add on better AR cameras.

madsushion Steam Frame

There's an expansion port on the front with a camera interface, so you could add on better AR cameras.

madsushion Game design is simple

I think it's tongue-in-cheek.

madsushion Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies

The finances work the other way around: you can often pay your transit/upstream providers an additional fee for their DDOS protection/filtering service, where you can signal (via BGP or otherwise) that there's traffic you don't want to receive. BGP Flowspec (or similar) is one of the technologies used here.

madsushion Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

Yep, absolutely, often called "wave/wavelength" or "lambda" service, or "lit fiber".

madsushion Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining

DWDM tech improvements have outpaced nearly every other form of technology growth, so the same single pair of fiber that used to carry 10 Mbps can now carry 20 Tbps, which is a 2,000,000x multiplier. The same somewhat-fixed supply of fiber can go a very long way today, so the price pressure for access is less than you might expect.

madsushion Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs

All surface area carries risk, and LLDP is additional surface area when exposed on a public IX.

madsushion The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

Depending on the streaming protocol (eg WARP), you can specify that the tracks (audio vs video) need to be time-aligned, so each group (chunk of video or audio) starts at the same time and lasts the same length. I think this means you'll get resync'd at the start of the next group.

madsushion The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

Thanks for the info! I was reading up on CMAF after seeing it mentioned on your blog.

madsushion The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

Related, the WARP streaming protocol, as a candidate for what would ride over MoQ: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-moq-warp/

madsushion How to run an event that doesn't suck

Thanks for sharing this link, I really enjoyed reading!

madsushion The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper

Thanks for sharing panelook; just spent 30 minutes browsing around. I love niche sites like this!

madsushion Monkey MindPong

Banana smoothie.

madsushion Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376874

> [1] Jelly Bean chips are those that are made in batches of 1 - 10 million with a set of functions that are fairly specific to their application.

madsushion The database servers powering Let's Encrypt

One primary, which they replicate to other servers in other locations.

https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases

madsushion BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages

IPv6 routes also take more TCAM space than IPv4, so IPv6 growth (unless strongly aggregated) is actually more expensive than IPv4.

madsushion Python at Netflix

They're also working with a ton of remote and disparate organizations (ISPs), so locality is probably not as important.

madsushion Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

Supply and demand aren’t perfectly measurable values.

Supply and demand change all the time, and can even shift while you’re in school, or over the 40+ expected years of most careers.

Telling someone to pick a career where demand > supply forever is impossible because if you believe in the market, supply will rise to meet demand.

madsushion How many .com domain names are unused?

Since they stopped offering a free plan, I imagine. I just paid them the money, it's worth it.

madsushion Shutting Down the BGP Hijack Factory

One note: not all IP addresses are handled by RIPE/ARIN/etc. There are legacy allocations which are not subject to any agreements and are the property of the owners.

madsushion Ask HN: How is DDoS protection implemented?

A10 actually lists the number of FPGAs in their mitigation appliances for sizing purposes.

"Select Thunder TPS models have high-performance FPGA-based Flexible Traffic Acceleration (FTA) technology to detect and mitigate up to 60 common attack vectors immediately in hardware — before data CPUs are involved. "

madsushion Ask HN: How is DDoS protection implemented?

Yeah, custom hardware (ASIC/FPGA depending). Liveness is trying to detect things like Slowloris [0], with things like timeouts, SYN cookies (which ask the client to do some minor work), etc.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)

madsushion 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

Some previous study on the space with an APNIC loan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOPcLpQZ8w

madsushion Tarsnap pricing change

Sorry, that's probably the wrong word for it. I meant the vibe of "Patrick really wanted me to change this, so I did, but not quite how he had envisioned".

madsushion Tarsnap pricing change

This is exactly the right mix of nerdy and petty, hard to guess if it's just an April Fools' or not.

madsushion Do we really need a new BGP?

Yes, RPKI. Not that widely deployed, <20% of ASs, last time I looked.

madsushion The science of Destiny 2's 'uniquely complicated' netcode

There is clan chat on Bungie.net on the clan page, so you can chat there. And the Battle.net app does have group audio and chat channels now (new Social tab features).