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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!"

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

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 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.

Why not simplify the URI?

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

"dump" seems redundant.

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Thanks but I'll continue to use similar services that don't embed google tracking.

And another one! How long will it last? All bets on the table.

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.

Oh that's nice!