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How HN took it
3 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice project and a useful idea
From 1 comment
Nice project! Last year I made a similar PoC on Elixir based on the paper "Crawling DHTs for fun and profit"[1]. In that paper the researcher uses a pool of IPs to introduce…
wut42 on HN
Objections
Crawler behaviour violates the BitTorrent spec and is selfish toward other nodes
From 3 comments
Skimming over the code it seems like it's doing fairly egregious bittorrent spec violations. In other words its very selfish and other clients may blacklist it if they detect…
the8472 on HN> Yes. Of course, I do not have data nor the foresight to claim that its short or long term effects are negligible, but I really doubt if it's not the case. And what if people…
the8472 on HN> bittorrent.org acknowledges the need & the issue It does not acknowledge or imply that what you are doing (forged replies) is necessary. It only acknowledges that indexing…
the8472 on HN
Not truly decentralised because it bootstraps from central nodes
From 1 comment
Its not really decentralized. Readme says: " magnetico liberates BitTorrent from the yoke of centralised trackers & web-sites and makes it truly decentralised. Finally! " Source…
barrystaes on HN
Spam in the DHT makes it hard to find useful results without filtering
From 1 comment
Its not really decentralized. Readme says: " magnetico liberates BitTorrent from the yoke of centralised trackers & web-sites and makes it truly decentralised. Finally! " Source…
barrystaes on HN
Requests
Support BEP 51 so the crawler behaves properly
From 1 comment
Probably a bit late to the party, but: > Once [BEP51] becomes more widespread (hopefully together with BEP 42), magnetico will (and has to) drop its current technique and support…
rakoo on HN
Add a docker-compose file and WebUI screenshots
From 1 comment
This looks rather nice though two things seem to be missing: * A docker-compose file for easy testing * Screenshots of the WebUI
tscs37 on HN
Questions
How does it cover the hash space with few IPs
From 1 comment
Nice project! Last year I made a similar PoC on Elixir based on the paper "Crawling DHTs for fun and profit"[1]. In that paper the researcher uses a pool of IPs to introduce…
wut42 on HN
Is running it on a traceable IP risky
From 1 comment
A couple of thoughts on this. 1. I assume it is "dangerous" to run this on an IP address that is easily traceable back to you, since it claims, to various peers, to be…
NoGravitas on HN
What is the real network impact of the fake node IDs
From 2 comments
Could you explain the harm in a bit more details? How many false identities (that don't respond) is needed to flood the routing table and cause a noticeable impact, and further,…
belorn on HNI'm not sure if you have understood my argument. The precise ratio at which it becomes noticeable or at which things start breaking down is not relevant to gauging whether an…
the8472 on HN
Alternatives named
skytorrents.in
From 1 comment
A couple of thoughts on this. 1. I assume it is "dangerous" to run this on an IP address that is easily traceable back to you, since it claims, to various peers, to be…
NoGravitas on HN
Tribler
From 1 comment
You haven't taken into account the resources required to do so. 1) Open ports, alredy rules out a large part of those millions 2) Willingness to sacrifice bandwidth for something…
c3833174 on HN