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Submitter here. Follow-up to Cloudflare's recent post-quantum roadmap post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675625

This interview focuses on the practical side: what changed in the timeline, why post-quantum authentication is now a priority, and what companies should actually do now.

Guests are Bas Westerbaan (Principal Research Engineer at Cloudflare) and Sharon Goldberg (Senior Director, Product at Cloudflare; also a CS professor at Boston University).

no. he was Portuguese and simply a brilliant scientist.

This is from This Week in NET, Cloudflare’s weekly show. Full recap here: ThisWeekinNET.com

Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-...

isn't this crawler to generate previews on Facebook? they have others for training and AI stuff. oh well, one never knows with Meta...

—— The facebookexternalhit/1.1 user agent you're seeing in the logs is a Facebook crawler, specifically used by Facebook’s servers to fetch content (like Open Graph metadata) when:

Someone shares a link on Facebook or Messenger

Facebook needs to generate a preview (title, image, description) for that URL

some related trends https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawlers-click-ai-bots-training/

that's a cool experience. it's really mesmerizing and calming watch one or two of these machines, because of the way the waves move, similar to ocean waves. there's this video that shows it at the end: https://youtu.be/mYLvRaMmfho

that's a comparison in the previous week, when there was a clear spike in traffic — if you use the mouseover you'll see there's a reason for that spike.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic?dateRange=14d

An update with today's numbers and Starlink growth in Florida as well: https://x.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1844764342668976159

I think there’s only one or two states where that happens. If you check the table, I use “—“ instead of 0%.

It's possible, but we don't have a state-level perspective on mobile devices vs desktop, only at the country level. So, it's difficult to confirm.

Exactly. That was the inspiration :)

Hey there. I can provide some more details. Our data doesn't show as much of a drop in Mississippi compared to Arkansas. However, in cases where traffic is higher than usual during the day (as it was in Mississippi and Louisiana), the drop compared with the previous week is even less noticeable using this method.

it could be related to the fact that there's more people leaving in cities, not that many cities, and those cities have data centers close-by. bigger concentration of population near data centers should go a long way.

Show with weekly updates on the latest news at Cloudflare and across the Internet with John Graham-Cumming and Joao Tome. Podcast feed (Apple) is available.

With the recent retirement of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, Cloudflare analyzed Internet Explorer traffic trends (humans and bots included).

The Internet was impacted in more than one way during Eurovision, from whole countries to the fan and official broadcasters sites, but also video platforms.