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ipfs

• Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Oct 2023

  I don't mind pinning, but back in the day I was having issues using IPFS to transfer small files between devices. I admit I haven't investigated to see if the problems were ever resolved.

  I've been watching https://github.com/ipfs/helia which is going to replace https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and hoping they can get an IPFS node working in the browser.

• Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2023

  On the topic of IPFS, but also slightly tangential -- how has nobody written an Activity Pub client/server in Javascript and distributed it as a Browser Addon?

  If IPFS can be literally hosted via a Firefox Extension[1], how has nobody done the same for an arguably easier protocol like Activity Pub?

  1: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

• How to store your app's entire state in the url
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2023

  Store the content in ipfs and just put the hash in the URL? I haven't used https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs in this capacity but I'm under the impression that that's what it's supposed to do.

• I wish I could "seed" a server like a torrent, has there been any work to make this possible?
  5 projects | /r/Mastodon | 12 Nov 2022

  js.ipfs.tech

• Generating a CID on the frontend, and then passing the files to the backend to be pinned.
  3 projects | /r/ipfs | 29 Aug 2022

  Please take a look at https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/blob/master/docs/core-api/FILES.md for more understanding

• Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2022

  You could include js-ipfs[0] and fetch all your resources from IPFS without going through a gateway. However, this approach would make the site fully dependent on JavaScript.

  A PWA with a Service Worker could perhaps implement its own client-side "gateway", translating public gateway URLs into direct IPFS access. Without the Service Worker (or without JS) it would fall back to using the gateway.

  [0] https://js.ipfs.io/

• IPFS-GATEWAY.CLOUD IPFS GATEWAY for Decentralized Internet
  2 projects | /r/ipfs | 29 May 2022

  Of course,You can try it out. You can create some Hash to IPFS from this link Adding data to IPFS https://js.ipfs.io/ and then browse the hash in https://ipfs-gateway.cloud/ It is directly connected to IPFS Node.

• Does anyone else believe FIL will make them lot of money
  5 projects | /r/filecoin | 24 Mar 2022

  The IPFS project in Github which requires a Github login in order to star a repo has over 20k unique people come by and star the project (https://github.com/ipfs) with language specific bindings for JS (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs), go-ipfs (https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs) each of which ALSO have thousands of stars. It's fake!

• Question about 429 error code and ipfs limits
  2 projects | /r/ipfs | 3 Mar 2022

  Option two: Launch an in-browser IPFS node using js-ipfs. And then fetch the image with that. Links: js-ipfs api, related post

• The Big Buck Bunny streaming demo on https://js.ipfs.io/ doesn't load.
  2 projects | /r/ipfs | 23 Feb 2022

  Couldnt find the demo you were talking about. But the github repo for this project is https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs, to report it you can open an issue there.

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