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boredcaveman
Personal blog · boredcaveman.xyz/postprogrammingsystems
boredcaveman is a personal blog at boredcaveman.xyz about programming and systems. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link to posts about building torrent websites without a database or central server, using static peer-to-peer hosting, with a live demo. Commenters cite them for the technical details.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Portfolio and blog of boredcaveman, a full stack developer writing about Linux, peer-to-peer systems, self-hosting and software that outlives its author.
Most-linked posts?
- Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-07
What Hacker News says?
Doesn’t have to be centralised https://boredcaveman.xyz/post/0x2_static-torrent-website-p2p...
Comment linking /post/0x2_static-torrent-website-p2p-queries.html
on “Web3 is expensive P2P”Submitted Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records as a story · 575 points
HN discussionThat's just example code in the blog post. The live demo uses a webworker with different code: https://boredcaveman.xyz/demo/megacat/database-app.js
Comment linking /demo/megacat/database-app.js
on “Database-less torrent website”Submitted Database-less torrent website as a story · 237 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fight between crypto indexes, the making of a hobby project as a story · 1 points
HN discussion