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This reminds me of this project: http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b6e368d27514fe305ca7dcecc32c0134838 http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2b

This reminds me of this project: http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b6e368d27514fe305ca7dcecc32c0134838 http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b... Myself and two other people have literally kept this page alive for many years - the github repo says 2017.

acidx 3y ago
Oh, this is a cool experiment!
- netcraft 3y ago
  Its been very interesting over the years. Myself and these other folks have this connection, but no way to communicate or even know who they are.
  - sweetjuly 3y ago
    It doesn't seem like the client actually verifies that the content it got back matches the SHA256 it requested, so in theory if you really wanted to meet them you could start sending an update website with details to get in contact with you. Though, that'd ruin the magic of it I'd bet :)
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dang 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410630 is fun but it's too much of a follow-up* to the current thread. If you get in touch with us at hn@ycombinator.com after some time (say a month or two, to flush the hivemind caches), we'll send you a repost invite. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- netcraft 3y ago
  Ok, cool. I'm not sure I understand the issue though, this thread reminded me of that page, so I thought other people might be interested in it too, and there wasn't much conversation here and felt like this was somewhat offtopic on this page anyway.
  - dang 3y ago
    You didn't do anything wrong! It's just that if you consider two principles: (1) frontpage space is by far the scarcest resource HN has; and (2) repetition isn't good for curiosity, it follows that we need to try to keep a fair amount of time and space between similar-ish topics. It's also in the interest of the follow-up post because then community interest in that-type-of-thing can focus on it specifically instead of getting split between semantically-overlapping threads. I hope that makes sense! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
hattmall 3y ago
It's neat but it's like P2P but doubling the bandwidth.

acidx 3y ago

Oh, this is a cool experiment!

netcraft 3y ago
Its been very interesting over the years. Myself and these other folks have this connection, but no way to communicate or even know who they are.
- sweetjuly 3y ago
  It doesn't seem like the client actually verifies that the content it got back matches the SHA256 it requested, so in theory if you really wanted to meet them you could start sending an update website with details to get in contact with you. Though, that'd ruin the magic of it I'd bet :)

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dang 3y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410630 is fun but it's too much of a follow-up* to the current thread. If you get in touch with us at hn@ycombinator.com after some time (say a month or two, to flush the hivemind caches), we'll send you a repost invite. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

netcraft 3y ago
Ok, cool. I'm not sure I understand the issue though, this thread reminded me of that page, so I thought other people might be interested in it too, and there wasn't much conversation here and felt like this was somewhat offtopic on this page anyway.
- dang 3y ago
  You didn't do anything wrong! It's just that if you consider two principles: (1) frontpage space is by far the scarcest resource HN has; and (2) repetition isn't good for curiosity, it follows that we need to try to keep a fair amount of time and space between similar-ish topics. It's also in the interest of the follow-up post because then community interest in that-type-of-thing can focus on it specifically instead of getting split between semantically-overlapping threads. I hope that makes sense! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

hattmall 3y ago

It's neat but it's like P2P but doubling the bandwidth.