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Ask HN: What's new being done with P2P?

by Nesco on 7/30/24, 10:04 PM with 9 comments

I am under the impression that crypto took the spotlight to almost anything P2P related in the past decade. Besides crypto, is there new being done with?
  • by siamese_puff on 7/31/24, 12:29 AM

    WebRTC is still a hot area. P2P is awesome and definitely not dead, been around forever and will be around forever.
  • by Zambyte on 7/30/24, 10:48 PM

    Radicle is pretty interesting: https://radicle.xyz/

    It's a P2P source forge similar to GitHub or Gitlab.

  • by Sean-Der on 7/31/24, 2:07 AM

    P2P broadcast is interesting. Send your video to two users, then they send it to two more. Makes things affordable.

    P2P VPN I also like. Users connect directly instead of routing all traffic through relay.

  • by metaketa on 7/31/24, 11:40 AM

    Radicle, LiveKit, https://iroh.computer/
  • by wmf on 7/31/24, 1:05 AM

    IMO P2P is mostly incompatible with laptops/phones but Veilid is trying to bring it back.
  • by nik736 on 7/31/24, 10:32 AM

    Does anyone have experience with P2P Livestreaming via WebRTC? Is it reliable?
  • by Charon77 on 7/31/24, 8:36 AM

    IPFS is still going strong with the file sharing.