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ProbeLab Analytics
Company blog · probelab.io/blogdatasystems
ProbeLab Analytics is the company blog at probelab.io, writing about data and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
ProbeLab Analytics - Map of Web3. Monitoring, analytics, and insights for IPFS, Ethereum, Filecoin, Celestia, Avail, Base, Optimism, Polkadot, Gnosis, and Bitcoin networks.
Most-linked posts?
- /ipfs/dht/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-01
What Hacker News says?
You can see public network metrics here: https://probelab.io/ipfs/ About 800k unique DHT clients are seen weekly.
Comment linking /ipfs/
on “IPFS Maintainers Winding Down”Submitted How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are about 8k validators [0]. Validators are low requirements, in the RPI ballpark and and a lot if them are combined on a single host. Then you also need some full nodes to access the data or submit transactions. So you can consider them part of the core infrastructure and those have higher requirements in terms of bandwidth and speed/capacity of storage but also CPU. But still a mini PC is fine. Let's say a b…
Comment linking /ethereum/
on “Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects”Submitted Peering into Privacy: A Deep Dive into the Monero Network Topology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhen’s the last time you tried? It must be much faster now. Check: https://probelab.io/ipfs/dht/#chart-ipfs-dht-lookup-performa...
Comment linking /ipfs/dht/
on “How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster”Submitted ProbeLab Sonar as a story · 1 points
HN discussionActually, lookup is super fast - CID lookup is consistently <200ms from the EU [0]. The original slowness came mostly from stale records and NAT’d peers that were indexed in the DHT which has since been mostly resolved. [0] https://probelab.io/ipfs/dht/#chart-ipfs-dht-lookup-performa...
Comment linking /ipfs/dht/
on “How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster”Submitted Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWe've been doing quite extensive measurements over several parts of the architecture, which you can find here: https://probelab.io/ Still lots to optimise, but wouldn't say it's unusable. In fact, performance is pretty good for a decentralised P2P network.
Comment linking /
on “Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift”Submitted Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussion