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Ryan Doyle

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Ryan Doyle writes RyanDoyle .net, a personal blog at ryandoyle.net about programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4HN people?
2016–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link ryandoyle.net for a post on decentralised network bootstrapping, meaning how new nodes find peers in P2P networks, raised in a thread on decentralising the web.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /assets/papers/Distributed_Bootstrapping_of_P2P_Networks-RDoyle.pdf
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. I am sorry, but centralized network bootstrapping is a very well known issue and unsolved problem of decentralized networks. http://ryandoyle.net/assets/papers/Distributed_Bootstrapping... http://grothoff.org/christian/dasp2p.pdf http://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/TUM/NET/NET-2014-08-1/NET... You say: "i.e. changing hardcoded bootstrapping data every N minutes, so new users could bootstrap from different nodes" The…

    Comment linking /assets/papers/Distributed_Bootstrapping_of_P2P_Networks-RDoyle.pdf

    on “Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world”
  2. Submitted Recieving Some 'Smart' Spam (2008) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. >> as a killer app for the "re-decentralized" web. IPv6 anycast looks quite promising[0][1][2] to help solve the problem with fully decentralizing bootstrapping of P2P nodes. This is a central issue currently affecting all p2p like networks including Ethereum, BitTorrent, Gnutella, Bitcoin, ... main issue is probably lack of IPv6 anycast support (??) due to misinformation, broken middle boxes, and and lack of unders…

    Comment linking /assets/papers/Distributed_Bootstrapping_of_P2P_Networks-RDoyle.pdf

    on “Reweaving the web: A slew of startups is trying to decentralise the online world”
  4. Submitted Embedded Capistrano with SSHKit (2014) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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