bittorrent/bittorrent.org

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 444 HTML

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

Mentions per year 8 mentions · busiest year 2016 (3)

20082026

All Stories Comments Newest Top Oldest

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
…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
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
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
…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
…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