STsteveharing1·May 13, 2026Submission
Hysteria: A QUIC-Based Proxy Designed to Resist Censorship
5 points · Open discussionHyNetworks
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Hysteria is powerful, lightning-fast, and censorship-resistant open-source proxy software
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Hysteria is powerful, lightning-fast, and censorship-resistant open-source proxy software
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourceshttps://github.com/apernet/hysteria has the option to use https://github.com/apernet/tcp-brutal, a deliberately unfair/selfish congestion control algorithm.
It's designed to mitigate certain methods of blocking-via-throttling.
I looked into it for a report I wrote a while back, and I was surprised to find that nobody has made something purpose-built for greedy TCP congestion handling in order to improve performance at the expense of others. If there is such a thing, I couldn't find it. Perhaps I'm a little too cynical in my expectations!
Maybe TCP-over-TCP is so bad that it's not worth it?
In A transport protocol's view of StarlinkAs far as I know https://github.com/apernet/hysteria is the latest proxy protocol (used in China). Maybe try this
In Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connectionsHysteria: a powerful, fast and censorship resistant proxy
92 points · Open discussionHysteria: A proxy and relay tool optimized for lossy, unstable connections
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