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🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: Traceroute's "mysteries" #unveiled by a Rust evangelist who never bothered to Google! 🚀 Brace yourselves, folks, for the earth-shattering news that 80 lines of code can decipher the magical #TTL sorcery—truly deserving of a #LinkedIn mention. 📚✨
https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/ #Traceroute #RustCode #Magic #HackerNews #ngated
I Rebuilt Traceroute in Rust and It Was Simpler Than I Expected

I never understood how traceroute discovers each hop. Turns out it's a clever TTL trick, and about 80 lines of Rust.

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