I (perhaps naively) still believe that communities can successfully curate human writing. While there's lots of AI slop that gets posted on HN, for instance, the amount of thoughtful human content seems well above the base rate.

You are not alone and fuck all the people that say that everything is doomed and that there's no way to still have a good internet full of wonderful content made by people.

In their defense the tracking pixel is (likely) quite literally transparent.

This (as previously posted) is one of my few Favorite posts on HN. Half because of how awesome it is, and half because I can never remember what it’s called.

CAIDA is doubtless a gold standard. One thing to note, however, is that the same vantage point avoidance issue applies even more to publicly-documented vantage points. In fact, it was concerns specifically about adversarial avoidance of academic telescopes that led to our research at UW-Madison and eventually to Terrace.

When looking at telescope data like CAIDA’s UCSD-NT, it’s also important to remember that source IPs can be spoofed absent a valid handshake, something that both our and GreyNoise’s analysis accounts for.

Surprisingly measuring legitimate Telnet usage may be even harder than measuring attacks! Getting representative metrics of benign src-dst endpoint pairs while controlling neither approaches impossibility, especially since at global scale it’d be mixed with (I suspect) orders of magnitude more attack traffic. Best you could probably do is measure on a clean-ish ISP like a university network.

We cannot know for certain what the root cause is. However, honeypot fingerprinting is a well-known risk for any vantage point, particularly a high-profile one.

This is a very challenging problem, especially if you don’t want to be over-concentrated on specific threat actors (as we suspect has happened here).

This simply isn't happening, and we have the data to prove it: https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routi...

> The sky is not falling.

Great analysis, thank you!

New thread: Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980355

This has been my experience too. That insane race condition inside the language runtime that is completely inscrutable? Claude one-shots it. Ask it to work on that same logic to add features and it will happily introduce race conditions that are obvious to an engineer but a local test will never uncover.

I splurged on the metal E6B for my private training: https://asa2fly.com/metal-e6b-flight-computer/

A beautiful device... though I have to admit after getting the certificate I exclusively use Foreflight.

I have a couple of EB6s to show to my students but ever since scientific calculators were allowed in written tests, I have never used one myself. Law of cosines is good enough for wind triangles :). Worked for a commercial test as well as the ATP. It is a beautiful device though ...