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Hysteria's congestion control algorithm ported to TCP, as a Linux kernel module

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2023-11-06 · latest 2026-02-02

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  1. There's an open source implementation that does something similar but for a more specific use case: https://github.com/apernet/tcp-brutal There's gotta be a less antisocial way though. I'd say using BBR and increasing the buffer sizes to…
    comment by digiown · 2026-02-02 · in 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
  2. …around that issue might be a bit harder, maybe [1] via [2] can provide some ideas to look into. [1] https://github.com/apernet/tcp-brutal [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38164574
    comment by rft · 2025-11-23 · in A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
  3. https://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…
    comment by Alex-Programs · 2024-12-05 · in A transport protocol's view of Starlink
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    TCP-brutal: Congestion control algorithm that increase speed on packet lost
    story by NeverBehave · 2023-11-06 · 85 comments