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This reminds me of this project: http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf21959178ef2f935e90fc60e5b...

Myself and two other people have literally kept this page alive for many years - the github repo says 2017.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410630 is fun but it's too much of a follow-up* to the current thread. If you get in touch with us at hn@ycombinator.com after some time (say a month or two, to flush the hivemind caches), we'll send you a repost invite.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Ok, cool. I'm not sure I understand the issue though, this thread reminded me of that page, so I thought other people might be interested in it too, and there wasn't much conversation here and felt like this was somewhat offtopic on this page anyway.

You didn't do anything wrong! It's just that if you consider two principles: (1) frontpage space is by far the scarcest resource HN has; and (2) repetition isn't good for curiosity, it follows that we need to try to keep a fair amount of time and space between similar-ish topics.

It's also in the interest of the follow-up post because then community interest in that-type-of-thing can focus on it specifically instead of getting split between semantically-overlapping threads.

I hope that makes sense!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

It's neat but it's like P2P but doubling the bandwidth.

Oh, this is a cool experiment!

Its been very interesting over the years. Myself and these other folks have this connection, but no way to communicate or even know who they are.

It doesn't seem like the client actually verifies that the content it got back matches the SHA256 it requested, so in theory if you really wanted to meet them you could start sending an update website with details to get in contact with you. Though, that'd ruin the magic of it I'd bet :)

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