Top all-time · #2624
Sébastien Sauvage
Personal blog · sebsauvage.netsecurityprogramming
Sébastien Sauvage writes Liens en vrac de sebsauvage, a personal blog at sebsauvage.net about security and programming. Since 2011, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2012-04-12
- Zerobin – pastebin clone with zero knowledge of hosted data8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-04-12
- Shaarli: Self-hosted del.icio.us alternative4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-05-09
- /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-01
- /links/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-18
What Hacker News says?
Well, you may love to forget, but a lot of us don't. We didn't forget that our community was called a cancer ( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_... ) We didn't forget that microsoft is one of the biggest pattent troll in the world ( http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=... or http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five... ). We didn't forget than the…
Comment linking /rhaa/?2010/01/06/13/21/41-microsoft-peine-de-mort-par-flashage
on “Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub”Submitted ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data as a story · 218 points
HN discussionIf you can read french, http://sebsauvage.net/links/ is a nice generalist IT blog. I'm the author of http://sametmax.com . And I like to brag, saying it's probably the highest quality blog on python. And I mean it. But it's in french and also talk about porn so you've been warned.
Comment linking /links/
on “Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?”Submitted Anonymous posts usernames and passwords of US Congress staffers as a story · 96 points
HN discussion> This seems like HP is acting anti-competitively I believe that they are and that it's not just a feeling. Some of their printers also used to tell your cartridges were empty before they were. Printer breaks very fast and support don't really help you: https://sebsauvage.net/streisand.me/matronix/index.php?20200... (french). Their policy on recurring payment is also pretty damning: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/202…
Comment linking /streisand.me/matronix/index.php?20200603_070634_Pourquoi_j___ai_resilie_mon_abonnement_HP_Instant_Ink
on “How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges”Submitted Shaarli: Self-hosted del.icio.us alternative as a story · 83 points
HN discussionWith my client-side encrypted pastebin & discussion board, I'm not going to the USA anytime soon. ( http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin )
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border”Submitted Zerobin – pastebin clone with zero knowledge of hosted data as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you don't know it, take a look at Shaarli[1], it's a bookmarking web app that allows you to share your bookmarks via RSS, you can add tags and comments, but you can also have "notes" without a link that can be used as microblogging posts. It's a project from Sebsauvage[2] (an old school french blogger), who wanted to build a social network around the RSS technology. I know there are projects around it to aggregat…
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli
on “RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything”Submitted Shaarli – the personal, minimalist, super-fast, no-database delicious clone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionsee: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin the "pasting" and "opening" sections cover this
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data”Submitted Punching Holes into Firewalls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI also did this: https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=dns-blocklist-en
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=dns-blocklist-en
on “Block Ads in Apps on Android”Submitted ZeroBin: pastebin/messageboard where server has zero knowledge of hosted data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionespecially neat when a crypto key like at https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Storing State in the URL”Make a html, embed the images in base64 using mhtifier.py, and rename the html as doc. Word will open it without problems. Further instructions: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=word_document_generat...
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=word_document_generation
on “Open-source Libraries for Working with Open XML Documents (docx, xlsx, pptx)”A few years ago I wrote WebGobbler (Gallery here: http://sebsauvage.net/webgobbler/ ). (My program would deserve an update.) At the bottom of the page, I also listed a few more generative art projects.
Comment linking /webgobbler/
on “Programmatic Art”Bookmark managers should happen in the browser, not in the command line. I recommend Shaarli: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli
on “Buku v3.0 – Command Line Bookmark Manager”http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli#why_not_u...
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli
on “Shaarli – Personal, minimalist, database-free, bookmarking service”Why not use a real database ? Files are slow ! Do browsing this page feel slow ? Try browsing older pages, too. It's not slow at all, is it ? And don't forget the database contains more than 16000 links, and it's on a shared host, with 32000 visitors/day for my website alone. And it's still damn fast. Why ? The data file is only 3.7 Mb. It's read 99% of the time, and is probably already in the operation system disk…
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli
on “Shaarli – Personal, minimalist, database-free, bookmarking service”If it's text only, there's also zerobin ( http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin ) that has a lot of features and the added bonus of not storing the key on the server (it's using the anchor part)
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Sharelock – Securely share data”I've been using Shaarli[1] for the past 15 years, and I'm very happy with it. The code base is small and stable enough (the official version hasn't got a single update over the past 12 years, even though the author is still using it daily[2]) you can easily tweak it to your tastes. [1]: https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli [2]: https://sebsauvage.net/links/
Comment linking /links/
on “Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?”I also like Zerobin, which encrypts in the browser so no cleartext is saved on the server: http://sebsauvage.net/paste/ Of course, it's not SSL, but the source is available online and you could create your own implementation using SSL (as I have).
Comment linking /paste/
on “Show HN: We open sourced One-Time Secret today”Checkout Zerobin (now privatebin). No database required, has expiry. All decryption/encryption in the browser. zerobin: https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin privatebin: https://privatebin.info
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages”Decryption is very slow for some reason. In comprasion http://sebsauvage.net/paste/ works instantaneously.
Comment linking /paste/
on “A client-side encrypted PasteBin”I might have missed it, but has HN done any kind of review of zerobin? http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?”Is that similar to zerobin ( http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin ) where server has no knowledge of the content of a message?
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Show HN: End-to-end encrypted email, based in Switzerland”This, done (more) right: zerobin [0] - open source, so you can (and should) host your own - encrypted on the client, only encrypted data is stored on the server. Key is "stored" in the fragment identifier [1] (ie after the #hash), so the server doesn't receive it, yet you can share the full url with who you want. Obvious deficiency: the javascript to encrypt/decrypt is distributed by the server, so you have to trust…
Comment linking /wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
on “Delete.im: the forgetful messaging service”A quick search turns up http://0bin.net/ , https://cryptbin.com/ , https://cryptobin.org , https://defuse.ca/pastebin.htm , https://paste.sh , http://sebsauvage.net/paste/ , and https://pastee.org/about . Is there anything new in your implementation, or is this just "me too"?
Comment linking /paste/
on “CryptDown – Client-side AES-encrypted Markdown pastes”Did you try Kriss Feed ? Opensource, single php file, fast, no database needed, works great on mobiles, keyboard shortcuts, OPML import/export... https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed Screenshots: http://sebsauvage.net/rhaa/images/201303/rha_20130317_kriss_... http://sebsauvage.net/rhaa/images/201303/rha_20130317_kriss_... I love it.
Comment linking /rhaa/images/201303/rha_20130317_kriss_6.jpg
on “How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?”
