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random ideas

7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2014-05-18 · latest 2023-10-05

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2014 (2)
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  1. …quite clever. https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/merkle-dag/ This appears to have been coined in 2014: https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/20 However the term blockchain dates back to at least 2008. A blockchain might be a…
    comment by r3trohack3r · 2023-10-05 · in Where does my computer get the time from?
  2. …* https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/commit/8004db75262fcd29399d6c7f... * https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/19 * i think the Nix people probably came up with this way before either of us * and i am willing to bet everyth
    comment by _prometheus · 2017-01-21 · in Distributing NixOS with IPFS
  3. …and #gx on freenode IRC. And, if anyone wants to work on "Hypermodular Programming" with us, see https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/27 and ping me :)
    comment by _prometheus · 2016-03-23 · in Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
  4. …the idea of "WebRTC everywhere", here are some links: https://github.com/webrtcftw/goals/issues/1 https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/13
    comment by feross · 2015-05-19 · in Popcorn Time in Your Browser
  5. Please never ever ever implement a Merkle tree as you did in https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/20 . This is vulnerable to the same trivial collision attack as the original Gnutella THEX proposal. EDIT: also, please implement…
  6. …going to dump some ideas here. --- # JRFC 27 - Hyper Modular Programming System (moving it over to https://github.com/jbenet/random-ideas/issues/27 ) Over the last six months I've crossed that dark threshold where the desire of building a…