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Chengyuan's Blog
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Chengyuan's Blog is a personal blog at danglingpointer.fun about history, politics and programming. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A Brief,Incomplete,and Mostly Subjective History of Chinese Internet Censorship”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post on the history of Chinese internet censorship and countermeasures, the Great Firewall and how blocking methods and circumvention have evolved, as a reference for VPN and blocking discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chengyuan's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- A Brief,Incomplete,and Mostly Subjective History of Chinese Internet Censorship5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-08-14
What Hacker News says?
As someone based in China, it's a bit surprising that techniques used by Chinese people get very few mentions here, while I do think they are quite effective against access blocking, especially after coevolving with GFW for the past decade. While I do hope blocking in Indonesia won't get to GFW level, I will leave this here in case it helps. I found this article [0] summarizing the history of censorship and anti-cen…
Comment linking /posts/GFWHistory
on “Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?”Submitted A Brief,Incomplete,and Mostly Subjective History of Chinese Internet Censorship as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Subjective History of Chinese Internet censorship and its countermeasures https://danglingpointer.fun/posts/GFWHistory Posted 6 days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898892 )
Comment linking /posts/GFWHistory
on “Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025”Submitted A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Subjective History of Chinese Internet Censorship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs the other replies allude to, it worked at one stage. This subjective and lovely history of the Great Firewall of the PRC was posted recently, about the to and fros in the methods of this kind of thing, and is really very good, if you're interested: https://danglingpointer.fun/posts/GFWHistory
Comment linking /posts/GFWHistory
on “Age verification doesn’t work”