16 stories tagged bittorrent, newest first.
6 points by HieronymusBosch | 1 comments
TorrentFreak article on TorrentClaw, an AI-built torrent search engine whose TrueSpec feature inspects torrent contents, revealing a malware trick using a genuine VLC player as a decoy.
527 points by skepticalgenius | 143 comments
Landing page for PirateFace, a service that distributes open AI models and datasets as torrent magnet links so they can't be taken down.
360 points by speckx | 212 comments
TorrentFreak article on Strike 3 Holdings seeking to tie a John Doe torrent lawsuit against a Meta Reality Labs executive to its $446M AI training case against Meta.
506 points by speckx | 248 comments
TorrentFreak article marking 20 years since Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay's servers, and how the site has remained online since.
392 points by askl | 395 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Spotify and major labels won a $322M default judgment and domain-suspension injunction against Anna's Archive operators.
393 points by askl | 220 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Meta's argument in a lawsuit that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent while training AI models qualifies as fair use.
354 points by dtj1123 | 111 comments
PeerWeb is a web tool for hosting and sharing websites over a peer-to-peer network using WebTorrent, with a quick upload interface.
365 points by dahrkael | 64 comments
GitHub repository for ExTracker, an open-source BitTorrent tracker written in Elixir with Docker support.
599 points by k-ian | 187 comments
Blog post describing how the author registered an expired torrent tracker domain, revived the tracker, and observed about 3 million peers connecting.
352 points by udev4096 | 173 comments
Security blog post disclosing that qBittorrent's DownloadManager ignored SSL certificate errors for 14 years, enabling remote code execution, fixed in version 5.0.1.
395 points by PROgrammerTHREE | 128 comments
Tom's Hardware news report that a South Korean telecom ISP allegedly deployed malware against 600,000 torrent-using customers, causing missing files and disabled PCs.
![Screenshot of twitter.com: Mistral "Mixtral" 8x7B 32k model [magnet]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/12/8/7692ee30-ddfc-47ef-b630-0e0d65669ae0.jpg)
463 points by xyzzyrz | 199 comments
A Mistral AI post on X sharing a BitTorrent magnet link to download the weights of its Mixtral 8x7B 32k-context model.
386 points by romac | 107 comments
CodeCrafters course overview for a challenge to build a BitTorrent client that parses .torrent files, talks to trackers, and downloads from peers.
439 points by KoftaBob | 99 comments
Documentation homepage for bitmagnet, a self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI and GraphQL API.
1275 points by 0___0 | 519 comments
Archived RARBG shutdown notice explaining the torrent site is closing due to team deaths from covid, the war in Europe, energy costs, and inflation.
706 points by en3r0 | 366 comments
Farewell page for Legit Torrents, a legal torrent tracker run from 2005 to 2023, explaining its shutdown after a null route and looking back on its history.