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Show HN: Hidetext.sh – encrypted pastebin where the server never sees the key

Hacker News - Sat, 07/11/2026 - 8:24am

Hi HN! I built hidetext.sh — a way to share text, code, and files through links the server can't read.

How it works: your browser generates a random key and encrypts everything locally (NaCl secretbox, XSalsa20-Poly1305). Only ciphertext is uploaded. The key goes into the URL fragment — the part after # — which browsers never send to servers. The link carries the key, my server stores the locked box, and the two only meet in a browser.

A design detail I'm fairly happy with: burn-after-read doesn't destroy the paste on the first HTTP request. The naive version means a Slack or iMessage link preview "reads" your paste before the recipient ever opens it. Instead, the reader's tab sends a heartbeat, and the paste is deleted only once nobody is watching it anymore.

Being upfront about the limits (full page at hidetext.sh/how-it-works): you're trusting the JavaScript I serve — inherent to any browser-based E2E tool; filenames are stored in plaintext (contents aren't); and anyone holding the link can read the content, because the link is the key. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, IPs aren't stored.

Stack: Next.js static on Cloudflare Pages, Pages Functions, D1 for metadata, R2 for encrypted blobs.

It's free. I'd love feedback — especially on the threat model and anything you'd expect from a tool like this that's missing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871436

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openpilot 0.11.1

Hacker News - Sat, 07/11/2026 - 8:17am

Article URL: https://blog.comma.ai/0111release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871392

Points: 2

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Naïve Art

Hacker News - Sat, 07/11/2026 - 8:04am
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Show HN: Andurel Web Framework Releases v1.0.0

Hacker News - Sat, 07/11/2026 - 7:48am

For close to a year now I have been exploring what a rails-like framework in Go could look like, from my perspective.

This has resulted in a very opinionated set of tools, architecture and agent-friendly CLI that I believes will make building fast and secure web apps in Go a much better experience. Omakase as DHH would say.

Check it out and let me know what you think and please open an issue if you have feature requests or find any bugs!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871211

Points: 1

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ChatGPT Work

Hacker News - Sat, 07/11/2026 - 7:45am

Article URL: https://openai.com/chatgpt-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871195

Points: 1

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