Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files
(dum.pt)35 points by MarsB 6 hours ago
35 points by MarsB 6 hours ago
This is the kind of neat, small, useful tool I carouse HN for. I'm going to add this to my giant list of, "neat ass little tools that I found on Hacker News."
Now if only somebody could make a tool that can audit my giant ass list of neat little tools so that when a use case comes around I remember, "ah yes this!"
Carouse != peruse? Though maybe on Fridays everything has a party atmosphere...
I can’t think of a more relevantly time to carouse than when browsing my deep archive of ADHD-sorted bookmarks.
What happens if people use this to publish base64 versions of pirated works?
Or other illegal activities?
I've implemented a similar site a few years ago, with one crucial difference, which makes it even simpler: https://pastila.nl/
The difference is that there is no "share" button, so you don't have to press it, and just copy the page URL any time.
Can I curl this file to a linux machine easily?
I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production machine. Rather than doing many hops through SSH tunnels, the easiest thing to do would be to host the file online, and wget it down to my linux machine.
The options out there were lacking. I used https://bashupload.com/ for a bit, but the problem is that after you download the file once, it gets deleted. Sometimes I want to share the file to multiple machines.
I made an initial version, let me know if you find it useful! Docs at dum.pt/dev or just curl https://dum.pt :)
I use ffsend, the old send.firefox.com stuff https://github.com/timvisee/send There are a bunch of public instances available here: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/
> I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production machine.
You can do this with tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop
https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh
I’m currently using Gokapi for transfer, but planning to switch to this one.
Something like a `/raw` suffix would be amazing. Example: `https://www.dum.pt/dump/302460a1-1ed0-40b0-b637-e9d04a168678...`.
Looks fantastic! As someone who has done it before, if this gets popular you'll run into some abusive users that you'll want to deal with. Microsoft will often give out free access to it's PhotoDNA service for detection of explicit images of minors. VirusTotal will often do the same for malware in exchange for samples. You'll also want to have a structured retention process, e.g. size is inversely proportional to storage time.
Good luck, get in contact (see my profile) if you run into any issues.
wow thank you so much for the tips! I had mostly just worried about piracy and thought that the maximum 24 hour retention policy would be "good enough". Naively, I had not thought of things I'd want to nip right in the bud (Like CP). So I will definitely be looking into the solutions you've mentioned. Thanks again!
Why not simplify the URI?
https://www.dum.pt/25d16868-60b7-4a5e-bf2f-828341ff7c1a
"dump" seems redundant.
I've been giving this some thought... While I definitely agree with you, adding the extra route seems more "future-proof". And it's not like the urls are rememberable anyway... But it might be worth just making the whole link much much shorter over all. I'll think about this!
> And it's not like the urls are rememberable anyway
They're what everyone sees, when a link is shared. It's a fundamental part of the user experience, for a service like this. As stupid as it is, I would be a bit embarrassed to share a link with "dump" in it. Dump.ty is fine/great.
> adding the extra route seems more "future-proof".
I'd claim this is a separate issue. "routing" isn't real, after all, it's just string matching. Most/all routers have regex match options that might take some ns longer. You're free to do whatever you want in the future, trivially so if you make sure whatever future path doesn't look like an ID.
Thanks for the feedback! I've removed google analytics in favour of minimalistic in-house (public!) analytics
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One has to believe that law enforcement forensics folks have the wherewithal to distinguish a stray image in browser cache, from a large downloads folder full of similar content.
One has to believe this, for their own sanity.
One does wonder though, particularly in countries with increasingly-weakenened rules of law.
Apparently the "Show HN" prefix would be appropriate here [0]. And this kind of a service is usually called a pastebin [1].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin