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How HN took it
2 positive, 44 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 15 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Privacy: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever use of SQLite over HTTP over IPFS
From 1 comment
I was curious how this works and then I saw the sqlite requests in the network tab. It's amazing to see what we have access to these days -- SQLite over HTTP over IPFS to provide…
mmastrac on HN
Objections
IPFS is not anonymous; ISPs and gateways can be pressured to take content down
From 2 comments
IPFS is distributed but not anonymized, so you can send abuse requests to people's ISPs to take content down (like with torrents). The HTTP part is also not censorship-resistant.…
remram on HN> you can send abuse requests to people's ISPs In practice it's very rare for me to see a direct ipfs protocol link, almost all the traffic goes through HTTP gateways (which…
bscphil on HN
Search index lacks IMDB ID in full-text index
From 1 comment
The sqlite db contains a imdb column but it seems like the author forgot to include it in the fts4 index, meaning one cannot search for "tt9916362" even though it's right there…
Zopieux on HN
Recent content is missing from the database
From 1 comment
Looking for some recent (last week) content doesn't appear. What's the cutoff here for the DB?
Grimburger on HN
Requests
Include the imdb column in the fts4 search index
From 1 comment
The sqlite db contains a imdb column but it seems like the author forgot to include it in the fts4 index, meaning one cannot search for "tt9916362" even though it's right there…
Zopieux on HN
Questions
How does the database get updated?
From 2 comments
How does it get updates?
hirako2000 on HNIt don't. This is all archive.
mutant on HN
Is it safe to use from Germany / privacy risks of visiting
From 2 comments
Does anyone know if I can get sued for opening this up and searching "test"? I live in Germany, and they are pretty harsh when it comes to downloading. I opened this up while…
ctrl-vvvvvvvvv on HNUse Tor?
activiation on HN
Alternatives named
Usenet
From 1 comment
Look if you want to find isos to Linux (wink wink) off the web just use Usenet.
gigatexal on HN
Private torrent trackers
From 1 comment
They do on private trackers where there is an incentive usually tied to ratio or seed time. It's not a monetary incentive and it works.
xnyanta on HN
Maintainer's full RARBG DB dump on GitHub
From 1 comment
Related: I just dropped a mega DB archive dump for everything I have with regard to RARBG. My hope is others will find this useful. https://github.com/sleaze/rarbg-db-dumps…
rhqq2 on HN