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8 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-02-21 · latest 2026-06-17

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  1. There is this https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/174 We would love this to gain more traction so we can use mainline also for content discovery. But we have to be realistic: mainline moves slowly, and for good reasons.
    comment by rklaehn · 2026-06-17 · in Iroh 1.0
  2. …mainline DHT, but alas that is not possible because of some mainline limitiations. Have you seen https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/174 - does that address the main issue?
    comment by teohhanhui · 2026-06-16 · in Iroh 1.0
  3. Rationale for hash function change: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/issues/58 Discussion of other changes: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/59
    comment by richdougherty · 2017-08-08 · in The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
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    Torrent search index format
    story by sktrdie · 2017-03-14 · 0 comments
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    Transitioning to stronger hash function in BitTorrent
    story by nreece · 2017-02-23 · 0 comments
  6. Please have a look at this pull request I submitted some time ago to Bittorrent.org: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/35 It's about updating torrents via DHT mutable items. Meaning that torrent sites could share their…
    comment by sktrdie · 2016-08-05 · in Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
  7. …they can point to a new torrent - users will then just get the new stuff. Idea is laid out here: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/issues/19#issue... Sure it's more complex than typing somesite.com in your address bar, but it's…
    comment by sktrdie · 2016-05-15 · in A BitTorrent search engine base DHT protocol
  8. …it does create overload on the DHT. Initially in fact I was looking at implementing it as such: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/issues/19#issue... Problem is that you don't get the "hosting" effect that you get with the DHT so…
    comment by sktrdie · 2016-02-21 · in PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network