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Holochain Blog
Company blog · blog.holochain.orgprogrammingsystems
Holochain Blog is the company blog at blog.holochain.org, writing about programming and systems. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Building Group Cohesion Horizontally with Holochain”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to Holochain's posts as references on rrDHT, peer-to-peer networking, and the Elemental Chat app. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An end-to-end, open source, P2P app framework
Most-linked posts?
- Building Group Cohesion Horizontally with Holochain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-30
What Hacker News says?
have you seen rrDHT? https://blog.holochain.org/how-rrdht-works-a-tech-deep-dive/...
Comment linking /how-rrdht-works-a-tech-deep-dive/
on “Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records”Submitted Building Group Cohesion Horizontally with Holochain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA difference between iroh and many p2p networks is that we try to use existing IETF standards (QUIC, TLS) as much as possible instead of reinventing the wheel. An iroh connection is just a QUIC connection, using TLS and TLS ALPNs for protocol negotiation. If you look at an iroh connection using wireshark, it is just a QUIC connection. You can use all the existing tools, and a lot of things you learn when using iroh…
Comment linking /dev-pulse-154-holochain-0-6-1-is-here-and-its-smooth-like-butter/
on “Iroh 1.0”Submitted Building Group Cohesion Horizontally: A Distributed Collective Action Network as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHolochain is currently testing a rudimentary p2p chat app running on a distributed network of hosts: https://blog.holochain.org/elemental-chat-is-live/ That could be an interesting space for you to shape and explore given the full p2p architecture tends to result in creative workarounds.
Comment linking /elemental-chat-is-live/
on “The Future of Group Messaging”This is interesting. At a first glance this seemed idiotic, but digging a bit deeper it might actually work. Let me explain myself. --- Their example in the linked document has the following usecase: > [Alice is a singer/songwriter] joins the app and chooses to register the username “@alice_ukulele”. She checks if it’s already been taken by calculating its address and looking for an existing username DHT entry with…
Comment linking /how-rrdht-works-a-tech-deep-dive/
on “Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web”