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Show HN: TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by j_s 9y ago
Show HN: TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130280 (Apr 2017, 33 comments)
By putting an SQLite database file (.db) inside a torrent, we can query its content -- by prioritizing pieces based on the SQL query -- and quickly peek at the content of the database without downloading it entirely.