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AnyBT: A BitTorrent Search Engine Works on ENS and IPFS

74 points by jerry374 3y ago

promiseofbeans 3y ago
Adding a tracking parameter to the link is very uncool
- Double_a_92 3y ago
  What's uncool about the creator knowing which social media outlet worked the best for their "advertising"? It doesn't hurt you.
- jerry374 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    No worries. Cool project by the way!
- ipaddr 3y ago
  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.
- nsonha 3y ago
  uncool would be blindly objecting something without even understanding why you do it.
dumbfounder 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    How is it decentralized? Are you using Filecoin VM? Doing your own thing?
    - jerry374 3y ago
      The index files are stored on Filecoin, and there are multiple nodes loading those index files and serving queries.
      - dumbfounder 3y ago
        Multiple nodes that you run? What's the incentive for others to run them?
        deleted 3y ago
        [deleted]
- ploum 3y ago
  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 ;-)
  - 3y ago
ramon156 3y ago
Qbit search works fine, why would I choose a rewrite?
sampa 3y ago
no files inside listed unlike btdig
devdao 3y ago
Where's the code?
mdaniel 3y ago
Maybe it's marketed as ENS and IPFS, but in the end it's an .ru domain running SQL. What's old is new again! curl 'https://gateway.magnode.ru/blockved/glitterchain/index/sql/simple_query' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw @- <<"JSON" { "sql": "select /*+ SET_VAR(full_text_option='{\"highlight\":{ \"style\":\"html\",\"fields\":[\"file_name\"]}}') */ file_name,filesize,total_count,_id,category,firstadd_utc_timestamp,_score from library.dht where query_string('file_name:\\\"debian\\\"^1') order by total_count desc limit 0, 200", "arguments": [] } JSON
- WirelessGigabit 3y ago
  --data-raw is incorrect, as it does not parse the "@-", it takes it as a literal value. You want --data @- ...

74 points by jerry374 3y ago

promiseofbeans 3y ago

Adding a tracking parameter to the link is very uncool

Double_a_92 3y ago
What's uncool about the creator knowing which social media outlet worked the best for their "advertising"? It doesn't hurt you.
jerry374 3y ago
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 3y ago
  No worries. Cool project by the way!
ipaddr 3y ago
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.
nsonha 3y ago
uncool would be blindly objecting something without even understanding why you do it.

dumbfounder 3y ago

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 3y ago
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 3y ago
  How is it decentralized? Are you using Filecoin VM? Doing your own thing?
  - jerry374 3y ago
    The index files are stored on Filecoin, and there are multiple nodes loading those index files and serving queries.
    - dumbfounder 3y ago
      Multiple nodes that you run? What's the incentive for others to run them?
      - deleted 3y ago
        [deleted]
ploum 3y ago
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 ;-)
- 3y ago

ramon156 3y ago

Qbit search works fine, why would I choose a rewrite?

sampa 3y ago

no files inside listed unlike btdig

devdao 3y ago

Where's the code?

mdaniel 3y ago

Maybe it's marketed as ENS and IPFS, but in the end it's an .ru domain running SQL. What's old is new again! curl 'https://gateway.magnode.ru/blockved/glitterchain/index/sql/simple_query' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw @- <<"JSON" { "sql": "select /*+ SET_VAR(full_text_option='{\"highlight\":{ \"style\":\"html\",\"fields\":[\"file_name\"]}}') */ file_name,filesize,total_count,_id,category,firstadd_utc_timestamp,_score from library.dht where query_string('file_name:\\\"debian\\\"^1') order by total_count desc limit 0, 200", "arguments": [] } JSON

WirelessGigabit 3y ago
--data-raw is incorrect, as it does not parse the "@-", it takes it as a literal value. You want --data @- ...