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an efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation

18 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 2 stories, 16 comments · first 2015-08-18 · latest 2026-08-14

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  1. …V2.1 ended up using pread/pwrite nowz it's fine now. The issue continued for 3 years more or less. https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6667
    comment by ValdikSS · 2026-08-14 · in Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
  2. been waiting for this for a while https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/47 https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/7283
    comment by khimaros · 2026-01-31 · in Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
  3. …hardly a "beginner developer", yet look how hard it is to make a performant implementation of uTP: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/3542
    comment by dgroshev · 2025-02-24 · in Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)
  4. > NAT-PMP https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/c31d90b59ffb3910b6... > PCP seems like vaporware
    comment by SSLy · 2025-02-24 · in Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020)
  5. …perform better in the meantime [4]. [1] - https://www.libtorrent.org/upgrade_to_2.0-ref.html [2] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6667 [3] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/7013 [4] -…
    comment by agent86 · 2024-11-15 · in Windows Memory Mapped File IO
  6. …Notable ones include Libtorrent[1], Peertube[2], and their own Webtorrent Desktop[3]. 1. https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/223 2. https://peertube-viewer.com/posts/2021-02-20-peertube-viewer... 3. https://webtorrent.io/desktop/
    comment by xd1936 · 2022-10-07 · in Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
  7. …on any third party service or database. Here is the libtorrent code that does it for every peer: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/8786d17e59c90aee2c...
    comment by londons_explore · 2022-10-07 · in Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
  8. …like that libtorrent support for webtorrent would be helpful for that. That was done recently in https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 , merged to master, but hasn't been released yet. Per the master changelog, that should be…
    comment by tecleandor · 2022-10-07 · in Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1
  9. …yet. Latest release of libtorrent was 1.2.9, seems it's scheduled for "some branch" after 2.0 ( https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123#issuecomment-... ). Add in some time for clients to actually start using it as well, which is…
    comment by capableweb · 2020-09-02 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
  10. …is part of libtorrent now, so should be part of all torrent clients based on it, e.g. qBittorrent: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2020-09-02 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
  11. …(possibly more that I don't know about!) * https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent (Golang) * https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent (C++) An implementation in Rust would be amazing, but there is a quite a bit of work to make that happen in…
    comment by Sean-Der · 2020-07-18 · in WebTorrent Desktop 0.23
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    Libtorrent now supports the WebTorrent protocol
    story by feross · 2020-07-08 · 0 comments
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    BitTorrent implementation libtorrent now has WebTorrent support
    story by chapelierfou · 2020-07-02 · 0 comments
  14. …of libtorrent (popular implementation of BitTorrent) to get support for it into the library: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123
    comment by conradev · 2020-01-05 · in Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
  15. https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 <- Once this PR is ready and merged we'll probably see a boatload of streaming websites streaming (web)torrents. This might just be the next era of pirate streaming coming up, considering the…
    comment by carlhjerpe · 2019-12-15 · in The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
  16. …[1] http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951728 [3] https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/2197
    comment by theamk · 2019-04-13 · in IPFS Project Roadmap
  17. …client. Finally, libtorrent is open source. Here's the discussion about adding WebTorrent support: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/223
    comment by dcposch · 2016-04-06 · in WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client
  18. For libtorrent, v1.0.6 changelog seems to hint that this has been fixed? https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/releases/tag/libtorrent... "* fixed uTP vulnerability"
    comment by 0x0 · 2015-08-18 · in Exploiting BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Reflective DDoS Attacks [pdf]