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UTF-8 is a brilliant design

https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design
309•vishnuharidas•5h ago•140 comments

Emacs: A Paradigm Shift

https://edoput.it/2025/04/16/emacs-paradigm-shift.html
89•Karrot_Kream•2h ago•3 comments

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
264•rcarmo•6h ago•69 comments

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch arch

https://ffglitch.org/gallery/
28•captain_bender•1h ago•6 comments

Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
379•mpweiher•8h ago•329 comments

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy
571•mpweiher•5h ago•426 comments

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5498346-corporate-america-has-been-trying-to-hide-job-opening...
250•b_mc2•7h ago•197 comments

The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody

https://www.tftc.io/treasury-iexpanding-patriot-act/
577•bilsbie•11h ago•433 comments

Reduce bandwidth costs with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage

https://devcenter.upsun.com/posts/cut-aws-bandwidth-costs-95-with-dm-cache/
9•tlar•3d ago•1 comments

3D modeling with paper

https://www.arvinpoddar.com/blog/3d-modeling-with-paper
223•joshuawootonn•9h ago•31 comments

First 'perovskite camera' can see inside the human body

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/09/first-perovskite-camera-can-see-inside-the-human-body/
32•geox•3d ago•8 comments

Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-6KI3m31M
83•raphlinus•15h ago•28 comments

How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/10/how-foss-projects-handle-legal-takedown-requests.html
78•mkesper•6h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Aris – a free AI-powered answer engine for kids

https://www.aris.chat
12•andrewdug•1h ago•10 comments

Show HN: I made a small site to share text & files. Free, no ads or registration

https://www.dum.pt/
32•MarsB•3h ago•34 comments

Unauthorized Windows/386

https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/09/06/unauthorized-windows-386/
21•Bogdanp•3d ago•2 comments

Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/humanely-dealing-with-humungus-crawlers
68•freediver•6h ago•33 comments

Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/
113•lehi•2h ago•50 comments

How to Become a Pure Mathematician (Or Statistician)

http://hbpms.blogspot.com/
62•ipnon•3d ago•69 comments

Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer

https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-Use
99•djhu9•3d ago•18 comments

OpenAI Grove

https://openai.com/index/openai-grove/
66•manveerc•7h ago•64 comments

Oq: Terminal OpenAPI Spec Viewer

https://github.com/plutov/oq
84•der_gopher•8h ago•11 comments

Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

https://thealliance.ai/blog/building-a-deep-research-agent-using-mcp-agent
67•saqadri•2d ago•16 comments

Advanced Scheme Techniques (2004) [pdf]

https://people.csail.mit.edu//jhbrown/scheme/continuationslides04.pdf
90•mooreds•7h ago•11 comments

VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm/
76•meetpateltech•7h ago•15 comments

Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/08/31/why-do-browsers-throttle-javascript-timers/
45•vidyesh•5h ago•26 comments

I don't like curved displays

https://blog.danielh.cc/blog/curved
54•max__dev•4d ago•72 comments

ARM is great, ARM is terrible, and so is RISC-V

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10858-arm-is-great-arm-is-terrible-and-so-is-risc-v
28•edward•1h ago•1 comments

Vector database that can index 1B vectors in 48M

https://www.vectroid.com/blog/why-and-how-we-built-Vectroid
81•mathewpregasen•6h ago•41 comments

Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus

http://www.identity4.com/2025-racintosh-plus/
127•zdw•4d ago•31 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: I made a small site to share text & files. Free, no ads or registration

https://www.dum.pt/
32•MarsB•3h ago

Comments

matthewtse•2h ago
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.

MarsB•2h ago
It wasn't a usecase I thought of, so it's not really accommodated for it, but I like it! I'll try make a nice little "for devs" page with simple endpoints :)
xur17•2h ago
Something like a `/raw` suffix would be amazing. Example: `https://www.dum.pt/dump/302460a1-1ed0-40b0-b637-e9d04a168678...`.
skydhash•2h ago
https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh

I’m currently using Gokapi for transfer, but planning to switch to this one.

ac29•2h ago
> 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

1317•1h ago
you can just use catbox https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
zie•1h ago
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/
AfterHIA•2h 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!"

MarsB•2h ago
Appreciate the comment, feels great
blacksmith_tb•1h ago
Carouse != peruse? Though maybe on Fridays everything has a party atmosphere...
staindk•1h ago
Can probably set up some kind of AI workflow that exports your bookmarks -> attaches them to an LLM chat -> asks the LLM if anything across your bookmarks can be useful for the problem you're tackling/googling/etc.
codefined•2h ago
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.

MarsB•2h ago
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!
morkalork•2h ago
Hackers like to use these types of services (eg pastebin) as remote C&C servers too where infected computers both retrieve commands from them and also exfiltrate data to them
MarsB•2h ago
Thanks for flagging this! I will definitely be doing a deep dive into all this this weekend
josefritzishere•2h ago
Oh that's nice!
MarsB•1h ago
Thank you!
nomel•2h ago
Why not simplify the URI?

https://www.dum.pt/25d16868-60b7-4a5e-bf2f-828341ff7c1a

"dump" seems redundant.

MarsB•1h ago
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!
chrisstanchak•25m ago
The $0.01 solution is to use /d/
defanor•1h ago
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

MarsB•1h ago
Thanks for the heads up! I update the title to show the appropriate tag. I'm familiar with the term pastebin, but this is not limited to just text and I do feel like pastebin.com has taken ownership of the term so I wanted to avoid confusion.
bapak•1h ago
Boring. When will people learn that these websites will inevitably host insanely illegal content and spam? There's one such "small site" a week on HN.

The website even lacks a "report content" button, so clearly abuse was not in the author's mind.

MarsB•1h ago
I considered it, but I (naively) thought that the 24 hour maximum retention policy would take care of most abuse. As others in the comments have pointed out, it won't! So I will be taking more steps towards abuse prevention :)
7bit•21m ago
If someone uploads just one CP picture, our are fucked for live.
eth0up•1h ago
I love these websites. I think as bapak (and codefined) suggested, they tend not to last though, which is unfortunate. I also imagine it's fun to build. Good old fashioned simple utility.

Thanks for sharing.

MarsB•1h ago
This was in all honesty a very self-serving project! Fun to build, something I wanted and that's that. Fingers crossed it's smooth sailing and it doesn't end up in the graveyard like all the other :')
fsflover•1h ago
The page uses Google Tag Manager. Related discussions:

Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) (woolyss.com)

1384 points by thyrox on Feb 21, 2022 | 883 comments

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022) (backlit.neocities.org)

213 points by fsflover 70 days ago | 155 comments

jaharios•1h ago
And another one! How long will it last? All bets on the table.
MarsB•1h ago
Hopefully longer than the other ones, but who knows. Time will tell :)
crtasm•1h ago
Thanks but I'll continue to use similar services that don't embed google tracking.
BobbyTables2•59m ago
What happens if people use this to publish base64 versions of pirated works?

Or other illegal activities?

AlexClickHouse•26m ago
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.

MarsB•26m ago
Neat! I like your solution, much better for simple text sharing.