<story><title>IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained</title><url>https://achainofblocks.com/2018/10/05/ipfs-interplanetary-file-system-simply-explained/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dymk</author><text>IPFS &amp;quot;solves&amp;quot; the problem of distributing static files - basically, a CDN built on content addressable storage. But if you don&amp;#x27;t have nodes pinning your content, or you&amp;#x27;re going to loose that data.&lt;p&gt;The article bills it as some alternative to HTTP, but it&amp;#x27;s a subset of functionality. You can&amp;#x27;t do dynamic pages with IPFS. There&amp;#x27;s no concept of cookies, so stateful sessions aren&amp;#x27;t a thing.&lt;p&gt;Why do articles insist on comparing IPFS to &amp;quot;the web&amp;quot;, whatever that means? It&amp;#x27;s a distributed filesystem. Not at all representative of most content on &amp;quot;the web&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained</title><url>https://achainofblocks.com/2018/10/05/ipfs-interplanetary-file-system-simply-explained/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdemon</author><text>Previous HN discussion on IPFS whitepaper and protocol
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16430742&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=16430742&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Based on the review at
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;muratbuffalo.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;muratbuffalo.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;paper-review-ipfs-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>