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8 Great Deals From Patagonia’s Past-Season Sale (wired.com)

2026-08-12 | by Scott Gilbertson | tags: patagonia, yvon chouinard, torrentshell

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A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: nyaa, coda, nhk

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Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nyaa, coda, bittorrent

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The Kids' Guide to Piracy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: piracy, torrenting, steam

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Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: petals, llama 3.1, bittorrent

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BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story (theverge.com)

2026-07-02 | by Janko Roettgers | get BitTorrent Classic Download → | tags: bittorrent, bram cohen, peer-to-peer

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Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: bittorrent, dht, crawling

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Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Qualcomm AI Development Kit → | tags: qualcomm, tenstorrent, jim keller

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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | get Pirate Bay T-Shirt → | tags: pirate bay, stockholm datacenter, gottfrid svartholm

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If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-22 | tags: annas archive, llm, torrents

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Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order (slashdot.org)

2026-05-20 | get VPN Privacy Protection Kit → | tags: anna's archive, torrentfreak, shadow library

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Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent — Intense digital archaeology project has taken years, risked player wrath (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Mark Tyson | get Minecraft 2b2t Map Archive → | tags: minecraft, 2b2t, digital archaeology

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Spain dismantles major $4.7M manga piracy platform, arrests four (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-22 | get Manga Scanner App → | tags: manga piracy, tu manga online, spanish police

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Anonymous perps behind 86 million files scraped from Spotify hit with $322 million court judgement — Anna's Archive case presents intriguing precedent for AI training (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-16 | by Luke James | get Spotify Data Privacy Book → | tags: spotify, anna's archive, digital millennium copyright act

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Limited edition Atari wristwatches dip under $500 in 20% off sale — classic console inspired rainbow designs available in five colorways (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-05 | by Mark Tyson | get Atari Classic Wristwatch → | tags: atari, nubeo, torrent automatic

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Authors' lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-30 | get Meta Quest 2 VR Headset → | tags: meta, torrenting, supreme court

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Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses' (slashdot.org)

2026-03-30 | get BitTorrent Seed Box → | tags: bittorrent, meta, legal

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Revolut Bank ordered to hand over details of more than 300 Sky TV subscribers connected to piracy operation — TV provider expected to pursue subscribers who paid for illicit 'IPTV is Easy' service in unprecedented move (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-30 | by Luke James | get VPN Proxy Server → | tags: revolut, sky, iptv

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Corsair's new 3200D mid-tower case redefines airflow and component compatibility — the case perfectly pairs with rear-connector motherboards (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-19 | by Kunal Khullar | get Corsair 3200D Mid-Tower Case → | tags: corsair, 3200d, fractal torrent

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385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been '100% backed up' and validated, torrents being generated (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-15 | by Mark Tyson | get External Hard Drive 385TB → | tags: myrient, torrents, save myrient

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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | get Napster → | tags: bit torrent, meta, llama

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Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: git, libtorrent, local

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Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jess Weatherbed | get iPhone → | tags: alternative, apple, apps

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Apple pulls torrenting app from a third-party store in the EU (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get iPhone → | tags: app, apple, party

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Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jess Weatherbed | get iPhone → | tags: altstore, apple, apps

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Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for an App on the Alt Store (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: altstore, app, apple

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Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: file, peer, protocol