Why “nginx” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
If they're so confident this isn't exploitable this person should stand up a very basic nginx running php-fpm server running in an exploitable version of PHP and invite people t…
by 0x1F8B · Oct 22, 2026
Yes I was hit by waiting for Elastic Beanstalk to update nginx for the succession of fixes. Wasn't fun being pestered by my security team.
by jamesfinlayson · Oct 22, 2026
I won't, now, because I will catch shit for suggesting it, it seems. But since one of the main ways this vulnerability can be triggered (by causing out of memory) involves multi…
by dofm · Oct 21, 2026
Where, exactly, does Amazon classify the PHP RCE as Important? I'm not sure anything says what your editorialised title, and comment link says. They were calling out that an NGI…
by Twirrim · Oct 21, 2026
I think there’s a lot of value in a “stack skill” like this offers. I don’t personally buy that the scaffolding around “markdown source of truth” makes sense; I prefer to work a…
by theptip · Oct 21, 2026
You may never hear me say this again because I am a gruff cynic who is not sure that hanging out here is good for his psyche, but thank goodness for HN. While I have been chasin…
by dofm · Oct 21, 2026
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "nginx" over time.
nginx is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use nginx, often as a load balancer. Read more on Wikipedia