@github.awesome: this is one of the cleanest ideas on GitHub right now. Meet textarea.my — a minimalist text editor that lives entirely in your URL. No backend. No database. No accounts. Just one HTML file. As you type, your text is compressed with deflate and stored directly in the URL hash. Yep — your entire note becomes a shareable link. #github #opensource

salazareo :

Isn’t there a size limit to url query params?

WastedYouth :

What problem does this actually solve besides being an interesting art project storing everything in the URL? Who cares about that?

Yoda :

best for putting in all your passwords

Broken Printer :

But then the link changes every time you modify it?

ethercode :

Hash cannot be reversed. It's just a encoded data

itsAlisaa :

at that point just copy paste the text, what's the point of using the URL?

Hibari :

in the end you're just going to copy paste it and send it ... and it's not even encrypted

Aute.ch :

Wow directly from hackernews to ai😂

BillieUnleashed :

Ah yes good old base64

user9358049064919 :

This is definitely going to be used by scammers unfortunately 😅

iMrSALEH :

500-character maximum?

core softworks :

I use base64 encoding in my URL Params for my Wikipedia speed running game (so people can share games against each other) and my boxing MMA scorecard website. It works because the URL Params limit is 2,000 characters or roughly 2,668 Base64 encoded characters. It's a really easy way to share data without having to store it in a database, which is quite handy. And it's pretty simple to do

Sr :

What if i want multiple users to access same project?

teletext.FPV :

Like pastebin? 😏

Ponvyr :

This is just notepad with extra steps

oulla :

the concept is really nice but I dont know use case for it

Joel⠀ :

Aaabbbb :

Probably not a hash if it stores the information…

Prophet :

why?

857838485893 :

bro found out what the base64 or any other encoder is 😭

secrets_we_keep :

we are evolving backwards

Syatoss :

thats lowkey fire

Jeff Daro :

I like the idea, but it’s dependent on the domain being up, right?

stdeykun :

Each time you not resend url it is lost

TheUruz :

if i recall correctly there was one project who aimed to achieve this for whole websites. that was really epic 😂