Show HN: Masked.link – A Stateless Link Shortener • Hacker News Board

gitgud wrote: post #3

Nice! This looks like a similar idea to [1] Zero Width Shortner, except you can actually see the characters! [1] https://zws.im/

Thanks for linking that! It looks like zws is using Firebase as a backend store to save the links while this just encodes it into the unicode.

I wonder if there's enough valid whitespace characters to store a meaningful amount of bits in...

Re: Show HN: Masked.link – A Stateless Link Shortener

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Post by ibarrajo » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:17 AM UTC

Managed to have -12% compression rate =D

Couldn't copy and paste the link, it takes forever

https://pastebin.com/e8ivtyev

Re: Show HN: Masked.link – A Stateless Link Shortener

#6

Post by TimLeland » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 12:25 PM UTC

Neat idea but impossible to type unless I am missing something. I built a url shortener using hashids https://t.ly/