Discussed on HN back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417231 (147 comments)

It's been reserved by ICANN:

https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/mater...

> Resolved (2024.07.29.06), the Board reserves .INTERNAL from delegation in the DNS root zone permanently to provide for its use in private-use applications.

> Resolved (2024.07.29.06) ... I'm too tired, I read it as a IPv4 adress...

> Any subdomain of .localhost works out-of-the-box on Linux

No, not here.

This usually happens because you have a Linux setup that doesn't use systemd-resolved and it also doesn't have myhostname early enough in the list of name resolvers. Not sure how many Linux systems default to this, but if you want this behavior, adjust your NSS configuration, most likely.

You don't need systemd-resolved for .localhost domains to work. It works on systemd-based distros using another resolver as well as non-systemd distros.

I've never seen this not-work on any distro, must be a niche thing.

It was a thing back in 1996/1997: https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=bf079e19f50d64a...

Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking of, thanks for finding it.

> "disabled later" because "it caused problems"

;-(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462783 got more traction (14 comments at the moment).

> methane doesn't persist in the atmosphere nearly as long as CO2 does

Technically correct, but very very misleading. Yes, methan degrades quickly, but it degrates to CO₂.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Atmospheric_methane_an...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403821 (100 comments at the moment)

You forgot Poland. :-P

They will never let Poland go because it's a buffer for Germany.

5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055999 (10 comments at the moment)

Previously:

2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34465455 (45 comments)

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27500624 (124 comments)

In the same vein, under construction geocities archive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879255 / http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/