Hacker News with Generative AI: Decentralized Networks

Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants. It values freedom of connectivity and aims to imitate the curious and adventurous spirit of the early Internet:

Decentralized Networks, Open Source, Internet, Privacy, Security

336 points by doener 16 days ago | 125 comments

A Full-Network Bluesky/ATProto Relay for $34 a Month (whtwnd.com)
This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need all that disk I/O. What impact does that have on hosting setup and operating costs?

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Hosting, Cost Optimization

8 points by diggan 21 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: URnetwork – Decentralized VPN Replacement (ur.io)

Decentralized Networks, VPN, Security, Open Source

17 points by mulchpower 88 days ago | 2 comments

Meshtastic: Decentralized communication with low-power devices (lwn.net)
Many of us enjoy uninterrupted access to mobile networks. However, in remote areas or during emergencies, that connectivity may not always be available. For such scenarios, Meshtastic offers a decentralized wireless mesh network with open-source firmware that runs on affordable, low-power devices.

Decentralized Networks, Wireless Communication, Open Source, Emergency Response

15 points by todsacerdoti 92 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: LLMule – Run and Share Local LLMs in a P2P Network (llmule.xyz)
Join the P2P AI revolution. Run AI locally or connect to the community network. Your data stays private, your choice of models.

Decentralized Networks, Privacy, Open Source

4 points by andycufari 116 days ago | 0 comments

The Rise of Bluesky (cacm.acm.org)
The Internet has been hosting social conversations around discussion topics and common interests since at least the inception of Usenet News.

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Internet History

46 points by g0xA52A2A 177 days ago | 77 comments

Yggdrasil Network (yggdrasil-network.github.io)

Networking, Decentralized Networks

324 points by BSDobelix 188 days ago | 106 comments

The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)
The fediverse has a file hosting problem.

File Hosting, Decentralized Networks, Social Media

4 points by sosodev 200 days ago | 0 comments

Matrix 2.0 Is Here (matrix.org)

Software, New Releases, Decentralized Networks

61 points by Arathorn 206 days ago | 9 comments

Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge (eth.limo)
At the beginning, Ethereum had two scaling strategies in its roadmap. One (eg. see this early paper from 2015) was "sharding": instead of verifying and storing all of the transactions in the chain, each node would only need to verify and store a small fraction of the transactions. This is how any other peer-to-peer network (eg. BitTorrent) works too, so surely we could make blockchains work the same way.

Ethereum, Blockchain, Scaling, Decentralized Networks, Cryptocurrency

95 points by bpierre 219 days ago | 52 comments

Digging into Bluesky DMs (anderegg.ca)
Yesterday, the Bluesky team announced that direct messages (DMs) were now available in first-party clients. I thought I’d dig into this to see if I could figure out how this worked.

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Technology

5 points by luu 237 days ago | 0 comments

Reticulum Is Unstoppable Networks for the People (reticulum.network)

Decentralized Networks, Blockchain, Technology

72 points by vyrotek 281 days ago | 42 comments

Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022) (unsigned.io)

Messaging, Security, LoRa, Decentralized Networks, Privacy

99 points by Bluestein 281 days ago | 42 comments

Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Social Media, Decentralized Networks, Fediverse

25 points by ZacnyLos 283 days ago | 2 comments

Ian Clarke explains the next generation of Freenet [video] (2023) (youtube.com)