Hacker News Reader

Comment by op03 | Hacker News Reader

Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

View on HN

> Would moving to torrents reduce the load?

Only if they could figure out a way to host their learning platform, content and scoring on it.

Instead of link to vid replace it (or place side by side) with link to torrent (probably with a note about torrent clients the same way Kiwix does). The rest of the platform can still be used as is.

Most people will just click and download will be pretty quick (most vids are quite small).

Video doesn't cost them anything. It's hosted on youtube anyway. It's the rest of the stuff that costs them money.

Ah ok then torrents don't make much sense.

Peertube is distributing the video streams P2P. Would be interesting to see whether KA could adapt that technology into their platform.

Khan Academy uses YouTube for videos, they have no problems with YouTube.

They can also move from Python.

Here is the article explaining their plans to move to Go.

https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm

they recently posted about how they are doing exactly that.

This gonna cost a lot to rewrite

Agreed. I wish more companies/nonprofits/whatever would make better decisions early on about their infrastructure, or at least gradually graft in better tooling over time.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com