Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAs a cynic I would say this is an attempt by Google and Cloudflare to collect DNS data. Why else would they provide this service for free? Both Google's [1] and Cloudflare's [2] DNS privacy policy prohibits them from storing personally identifiable information or from correlating DNS information with other Google data coming from the same IP/account but it does allow them to store information about which domains are popular, from which locations and from which type of device. TLS…
I'll say what has been said time and time again in the past: CF should not be the default server. There shouldn't be a default server. Have an onboarding flow that says "choose DNS server" and allow the user to choose between clearly-unencrypted endpoints (ISP/router, Google, quad9, etc) and encrypted endpoints that use DoH. And again, Google's DoH solution is infinitely less controversial: an upgrade list[0] so that, if your computer/router advertises 1^4, it uses Cloudflare's DoH. If it advertises…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 603
- Total comments
- 258
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-31 | A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPSFirst breakout · Best thread | johannh | 400 | 134 |
| 2019-10-20 | A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018)Latest 20+ point return | shekhardesigner | 196 | 124 |
| 2024-04-16 | A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS (2018) | aragonite | 7 | 0 |