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SequentialRead
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SequentialRead is a personal blog at sequentialread.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on getting around internet censorship with V2Ray and Caddy, and on running BPG image decoding in the browser via WASM service workers. Linked in threads on VPN blocking and JPEG XL removal.
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.
home-made software for autonomous web publishing
Most-linked posts?
- Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-29
What Hacker News says?
The great thing about China's Great Firewall is that really good options to circumvent censorship have been around for a while. Was waiting for someone to bring up XRay! Alternatively, here is a great write up of using V2Ray[1]. May be worth OP looking into, as a blogger I found noted[2] is an alternative to a VPN, and may work. [1]: https://www.v2ray.com/en/ [2]: https://sequentialread.com/v2ray-caddy-to-access-the…
Comment linking /v2ray-caddy-to-access-the-internet-in-china/
on “Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?”Submitted Federation vs. Clustering: Self-determination vs. distributed computing? as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI think the decision on JPEG XL as a whole is made; there were some statements in favor of adopting it on Chrome's and Mozilla's trackers before the decision from folks at Adobe, Facebook, Intel, and a newspaper, and some developers of it and natural advocates of it were inside Google; general-public comments seem less impactful than all that. If I had to guess, the trigger was Apple supporting AVIF and Chrome folks…
Comment linking /better-portable-graphics-bpg-on-the-web-with-webassembly-wasm-and-serviceworker/
on “Removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium”Submitted What Is a Process? (Operating Systems) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSomeone implemented a BPG decoder as a WASM ServiceWorker returning PNG files, an approach that could work even better for Brunsli: https://sequentialread.com/better-portable-graphics-bpg-on-t...
Comment linking /better-portable-graphics-bpg-on-the-web-with-webassembly-wasm-and-serviceworker/
on “Removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium”Submitted Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bonavita 1L Electric Kettle Repair as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When It Does Not Listen for Thee, Ask for Whom the Server Listens (Understandin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greenhouse Update 4 – September as a story · 1 points
HN discussion