Hacker News with Generative AI: Decentralized Systems

Creating your own federated microblog (fedify.dev)
In this tutorial, we will build a small microblog that implements the ActivityPub protocol, similar to Mastodon or Misskey, using Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework.

Social Media, Programming, Open Source, Decentralized Systems, Tutorials

181 points by dahlia 2 days ago | 37 comments

How IMAP works under the hood (lohr.dev)
The technology behind E-Mails (or ‘emails‘) always interested me. This is because in some sense it was way ahead of its time by being a decentralized communication system.

Email, Technology, Decentralized Systems

238 points by michidk 28 days ago | 75 comments

Show HN: Decentralized robots (and things) orchestration system (p2p.industries)
Coordinate swarms of robots, drones, or any debian-powered machine in a fully decentralized way! Without internet connection, without orchestration servers.

Robotics, Decentralized Systems, Software, Open Source

69 points by hannesfur 102 days ago | 39 comments

Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty (github.com/tide-foundation)
So, you want to build the most secure digital platforms on the planet, without the burden of worrying about security, and symultaniously grant your users sovereignty over their identities? Great!

Security, Decentralized Systems, Identity Management, Open Source

54 points by SaltNHash 128 days ago | 36 comments

IPFS on the Web in 2024: Update from Interplanetary Shipyard (ipfs.tech)
Earlier this year, we introduced Interplanetary Shipyard (opens new window), as the evolution of the maintainers leading the open-source development of libp2p and the most popular IPFS implementations, tooling and infrastructure.

IPFS, Web Development, Open Source, Decentralized Systems

18 points by e12e 149 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub (github.com/bjesus)
TeaTime is a fully static distributed library system powered by IPFS, SQLite, and GitHub

Software, Decentralized Systems, Libraries, GitHub, IPFS

307 points by yoavm 150 days ago | 55 comments

Upspin: A framework for naming everyone's everything (upspin.io)
Upspin is an attempt to address problems like these, and many more.

Naming Systems, Decentralized Systems, Data Storage

6 points by nateb2022 162 days ago | 2 comments

Pkdns: DNS server resolving via mainline DHT (github.com/pubky)
A DNS server providing self-sovereign and censorship-resistant domain names. It resolves records hosted on the Mainline DHT, the biggest DHT on the planet with ~15M nodes that services torrents since 15 years.

DNS, Decentralized Systems, P2P, Security, Censorship Resistance

52 points by janandonly 175 days ago | 10 comments

Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control (inkandswitch.com)
For local-first software to be successful in many production contexts, it needs to provide similar features without relying on a central authorization server.

Local-first Software, Access Control, Security, Decentralized Systems, Software Development

57 points by meiraleal 232 days ago | 8 comments

Anonymous Webs of Trust [pdf] (cispa.saarland)

Cryptography, Security, Privacy, Decentralized Systems

6 points by todsacerdoti 248 days ago | 0 comments

Willow Sideloading Protocol (willowprotocol.org)

Cryptography, Decentralized Systems, Blockchain

19 points by signa11 337 days ago | 2 comments

I Don't Trust Matrix Developers to Produce a Secure Protocol (github.com)

Security, Cryptography, Decentralized Systems

36 points by zaik 344 days ago | 2 comments

Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine (torrentfreak.com)