[HN Gopher] AnyBT: A BitTorrent Search Engine Works on ENS and IPFS
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AnyBT: A BitTorrent Search Engine Works on ENS and IPFS
Author : jerry374
Score : 49 points
Date : 2023-09-22 12:22 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (anybt.eth.link)
(TXT) w3m dump (anybt.eth.link)
| sampa wrote:
| no files inside listed unlike btdig
| devdao wrote:
| Where's the code?
| promiseofbeans wrote:
| Adding a tracking parameter to the link is very uncool
| nsonha wrote:
| uncool would be blindly objecting something without even
| understanding why you do it.
| Double_a_92 wrote:
| What's uncool about the creator knowing which social media
| outlet worked the best for their "advertising"? It doesn't hurt
| you.
| jerry374 wrote:
| Sorry for that, first time ever post on Hacker News. Didn't
| know this, and I can't edit the link after I posted.
| promiseofbeans wrote:
| No worries. Cool project by the way!
| ipaddr wrote:
| Tracking saying this came from hn is not uncool it's slightly
| cool. It's a way to say all of these people are from that cool
| site hackernews. Uncool is browser fingerprinting, tracking
| mouse movements and forcing signups through gmail. uncool.
| dumbfounder wrote:
| Is this meant to be decentralized to avoid shutdown? Where is the
| engine itself hosted? Ens is just a naming system and ipfs is
| just a file address system right? So the engine itself still
| needs to be hosted somewhere? Would like to hear more about it,
| but no info available on the site.
| jerry374 wrote:
| Actually the engine itself is also decentralized, there are
| multiple nodes running the search index over the network. There
| will be more docs coming out.
| dumbfounder wrote:
| How is it decentralized? Are you using Filecoin VM? Doing
| your own thing?
| jerry374 wrote:
| The index files are stored on Filecoin, and there are
| multiple nodes loading those index files and serving
| queries.
| dumbfounder wrote:
| Multiple nodes that you run? What's the incentive for
| others to run them?
| [deleted]
| ploum wrote:
| That's the very goal of IPFS: hosting is distributed. Every
| node taking part in the IPFS network may or may not have pieces
| of this particular website.
|
| Eth.link seems to be a centralized proxy enabling you to access
| that without an IPFS/EthDNS browser.
|
| It should also be noted that what is hosted is a simple list of
| hashes with a name (and a size). The search engine is trivially
| looking through the name and displaying matching hashes.
|
| Then, your bittorrent client try to find any torrent matching
| the hash (this is the magnet protocol).
|
| So, yeah, you download something from nowhere. This is the real
| "cloud" we have been expecting for the last 20 years ;-)
| dumbfounder wrote:
| IPFS only serves files, there is no server side compute. You
| can't just scan ipfs like a database so there needs to be
| some other tech used for the engine itself, as OP indicates.
| ploum wrote:
| yeah, indeed, my bad.
| ramon156 wrote:
| Qbit search works fine, why would I choose a rewrite?
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