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 orderGood points. The author focuses on (a) have server do everything itself or (b) use SSL accelerator hardware. There's a middle ground which has other benefits depending on your use-case: I/O offloading hardware that also handles SSL. These are often PCI networking cards that handle the packet processing, firewall, IDS, maybe management, SSL/VPN, etc. The host CPU works at a high level where it's only interrupted upon significant events or with most work done. The load on an I/O-bound server…
Do you know why I don't use TLS? Because getting a certificate is almost impossible for me and definitely not worth the hassle. I live in Iran, which as you may know is subject to financial and technological sanctions. It makes it impractical for us to buy anything from foreign countries because: 1. Because of the financial sanctions, it's nearly impossible to send money abroad. We can't have a wire transfer from our bank account to another country. We can't…
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
- 269
- Total comments
- 151
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-20 | Is TLS Fast Yet? | igrigorik | 5 | 0 |
| 2014-02-21 | CDN and PaaS performance | hepha1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-03-13 | Is TLS Fast Yet? | watermel0n | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-06-27 | Speeding Up TLS/SSL | dedalus | 10 | 0 |
| 2014-06-27 | Is TLS Fast Yet?First breakout | jgrahamc | 99 | 113 |
| 2016-01-31 | Optimizing HTTPS performanceBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | sshravan | 150 | 38 |
| 2018-03-12 | Is TLS Fast Yet? | sooper | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-27 | Is TLS Fast Yet? | LINKIWI | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-10-21 | Is TLS Fast Yet? | memorable | 1 | 0 |