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 orderI've used this before and it's great as a "reverse tunnel" when you have a VM in the cloud that does allow configurable port forwarding/firewall rules but need to connect "peer to peer" to a customer in a workshop who has the typical "my router blocks everything and we aren't going to spend the time supporting every workshop's possible inbound network connection setup". It helps for "flipping" the "server connects to client". But... it gets detected as malware really easily…
Why TCP over websockets? You can just use the HTTP bodies as a stream in both direction. Which means the proxy just has to strip or add HTTP headers before forwarding. The overhead afterwards is 0 -> you just write to the socket.
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
- 400
- Total comments
- 97
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-17 | Chisel – A fast TCP tunnel over HTTP | jpillora | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-01-09 | Chisel – A fast TCP tunnel over HTTPFirst breakout | aus_ | 101 | 38 |
| 2020-01-11 | Chisel: A Fast TCP Tunnel over HTTP | sdan | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-01-04 | Chisel – Fast TCP/UDP Tunnel, Transported over HTTP, Secured via SSH | srueg | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-04-04 | Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTPBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | lyu07282 | 289 | 59 |