The title "Hacker News in Now Reachable via IPv6" is false. The Ungleich guys have done amazing work on promoting IPv6, but this is simply a proxy.<p>However, if you want to actually use HN over IPv6, then force it in your hosts file:<p><pre><code> news.ycombinator.com 2606:4700::6810:686e
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This comment's written over IPv6. :)
Proxying is a terrible solution, since it allows the middleman to read all your data and masquerade as you (since cookies are part of the data.)<p>Your should use the 6to4 tunnel provided by your ISP instead.
Slowly getting there, but (IMHO) until mobile telcos start to push IPv6, I'm not seeing the momentum pushing it into normality.<p>Thing is, IPv6 took a while to come about (1) to solve a problem that had in the meantime created many workarounds and alas those workarounds work and still carry on for so many. Hence the return on investing in IPv6 when you have existing infrastructure is outweighed by the costs still and in business - it just works carries more weight than Engineers desires.<p>I still wonder when it will become the dominant over IPv4, but even those news items saying that xxxx will be the year of ipv6 moved onto IOT and xxxx will be the year of IOT.<p>But good that HN are onboard, but what factors do others see are for the stagnant uptake on rolling IPv6 out?<p>(1) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6</a> "In December 1998, IPv6 became a Draft Standard for the IETF, who subsequently ratified it as an Internet Standard on 14 July 2017"<p>edit add - formatting and reference