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colinsanetoday at 9:30 AM1 replyview on HN

for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snappier.


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tomtomtom777today at 11:44 AM

This is neat. I didn't realize this was possible with the protocol. Thanks!