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karlkloss 9 minutes ago [-]
Does nobody read the fineprint?
By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of your Content.
If you're ok with that, fine.
But I'm not.
sevenzero 3 minutes ago [-]
People are losing the ability to read. Lots of high schoolers are incapable of reading properly already. Attention spans shrink. We got some fun times ahead of us.
We need these legal texts as short form TikTok content I am afraid.
jonluca 9 hours ago [-]
Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.
pegasus 18 minutes ago [-]
You're encountering the "contrarian dynamic" which dang described in this post (which also explains why your own anti-contrarian comment reached the top) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601
combyn8tor 8 hours ago [-]
Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.
0xcafefood 3 hours ago [-]
Why would Cloudflare do that? They shouldn't help bad actors.
ComplexSystems 2 hours ago [-]
Who, exactly, should help people host a website?
simultsop 1 hours ago [-]
Best case: themselves. Since we are not there yet, reliable services.
femboyvtuber 4 hours ago [-]
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judge2020 6 hours ago [-]
I really hope/imagine this project specifically has a LLM of some kind doing real-time analysis on the uploaded files for malware from the get-go. How good that is could be is anyone's guess (and chances are there would be blind spots / evasion techniques).
arcatech 6 hours ago [-]
When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing.
Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems?
Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?
ddtaylor 5 hours ago [-]
I think the HN rule for "curmudgeonly" applies.
> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.
I think HN should be a place where I am excited to see what others have to add. When I see a post I am excited to see what takes and spins others have on it. I do want real criticism and a lively debate about important things, but there has to be a balance.
I want to see other comments that seem like they genuinely want to help steer something or build people up. Sometimes I get the impression that's not happening on HN.
sieabahlpark 4 hours ago [-]
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stackghost 3 hours ago [-]
There needs to be another rule against being a techno-sycophant.
brookst 3 hours ago [-]
To the curmudgeon, its techno-sycophancy to say the wheel is a pretty good thing.
It’s just another take on shill / sheeple / etc. it gets old.
stackghost 3 hours ago [-]
And to the sycophant, pointing out real and obvious drawbacks is being a curmudgeon.
overtone1000 51 minutes ago [-]
In such situations, the golden mean is a useful lens.
Nifty3929 3 hours ago [-]
The problem is that everything is negative, all the time. Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged. Everything someone or some company does must not be acknowledged to have any redeeming value- it’s all just negative
Which is sad, because so much amazing stuff is happening on the world right now, and seems to be only accelerating. For everybody.
puchatek 47 minutes ago [-]
Amazing stuff? You mean technical stuff right? Because politically, demographically and climate wise we're headed for disaster or at least dystopia.
I wished I could find all the science and technology as uplifting as my friends do.
arcatech 1 hours ago [-]
> Nothing good is allowed to be acknowledged.
What makes you say this?
sciencejerk 1 hours ago [-]
Maybe AI slop has something to do with it?
sandcat_ 41 minutes ago [-]
It may not be critical thinking though, but simply being contrarian, which is one of the easiest ways to sound smart without necessarily providing much of value or substance. And strangely, seeing as it’s relatively rare IRL, seemingly the default on the internet. Blindly praising isn’t worth much either, but I doubt that’s what jonluca is encouraging. It’s possible to “yes, and” without resorting to either sycophancy or relentless negatively.
dryarzeg 5 hours ago [-]
> Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?
Probably (I'm just assuming) because that person observes negative/cautious/"I don't like this because X and Y and also Z"/etc sentiment too much and feels like people are only quick to notice issues while forgetting about good sides.
It's only an assumption, though.
sieabahlpark 4 hours ago [-]
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superjose 9 hours ago [-]
Agreed I think this is pretty solid especially since you get all the Cloudflare benefits like CDN from the get-go.
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swingandamiss 9 hours ago [-]
hn has turned into a reddit hate fest. It's getting hard to read non stop negativity and hate. I'm happy to see your positive comment.
TheTaytay 4 hours ago [-]
Agreed. This is the same crowd that is mad about free tiers going away on other dev-friendly hosting services…
goshx 7 hours ago [-]
You must be new here :)
swingandamiss 7 hours ago [-]
No, I just created a new alt account. I have a year 1 account as my main.
j-bos 6 hours ago [-]
that's new :)
godelski 4 hours ago [-]
Even you're relatively new. There definitely was a shift as AI took off
Also, they said "year 1" not "1 year old"
r3trohack3r 5 hours ago [-]
I think maybe GP means they have an account that was created in the first year of the site, not a 1 year old account
phoghed 5 hours ago [-]
Brother it’s always been like this. Just check n-gate.com (tragic loss btw, rip)
ddtaylor 5 hours ago [-]
Hi! I have been following n-gate.com a small bit over the years, because I found it very interesting and it was a rabbit hole I wanted to go down.
I actually setup "xor-gate" for a while, which was trying to be a similar thing co-authored by a friend, but it was too time consuming and we gave up.
Did the author pass? I'm not trying to be crass, but I don't know the details.
jnaina 7 hours ago [-]
wait till anyone remotely mentions apple or apple products. the neckbeards on their thinkpads will come in droves to shit on cupertino's best.
adithyassekhar 5 hours ago [-]
I think they are all bots or threatened to see their little hobby now being accessible, classic gatekeeping.
esjeon 5 hours ago [-]
Corporations acting as if naive is a bit of problem in reality. For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy.
Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors.
Now tell me what is cool
MallocVoidstar 4 hours ago [-]
> For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy.
That's awesome, glad to hear it
x-complexity 4 hours ago [-]
> Now tell me what is cool
Not immediately being a copyright bootlicker.
The fact that you went straight to "BuT pIrAtEs" already shows who you actually care: Corpos, not people.
esjeon 3 hours ago [-]
A dirty secret is that piracy is being abused by criminal organizations[1]. When people unknowingly access such sites to see contents for free, it generate ad revenue for those organizations, which can fund other crimes.
I hate the corporate bootlicking that is so prevalent here.
gonzalohm 3 hours ago [-]
What about centralizing the internet like Cloudfare is doing? Once corporate greed starts creeping we will find ourselves on the verge of pay per visit a website
stackghost 3 hours ago [-]
You mean centralizing the web? Doesn't bother me. Most of the web is a dumpster fire of AI slop anyway.
There's more to the Internet than the world wide web, though. NNTP and IRC communities remain vibrant, if diminished in size
BitBalloon was the original project from Matt, the founder of Netlify!
gfat 8 hours ago [-]
Loved this app. What is old is new again.
brightball 10 hours ago [-]
There are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?
forgotusername6 2 minutes ago [-]
A drop box is a real physical thing, where you drop items for other people to collect.
hoherd 8 hours ago [-]
I thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the first OS X beta came out in 2000.
jamesfinlayson 6 hours ago [-]
I vaguely remember being told to put assignments in a drop box (like a mail box on campus) in the mid 2000s at least, and I'm sure it wasn't a new concept then.
hoherd 6 hours ago [-]
Oh dang, you're right. Mac OS X was my first Mac OS, but it looks like the Drop Box concept existed long before OS X. Here's a reference from 1991 titled "AppleShare Drop Box: Access for System 6 and 7 Clients" https://www.savagetaylor.com/TIL/TIL09033.pdf
lelandfe 3 hours ago [-]
A term still used on Tahoe. Right click a file in Finder, Get Info. A file permissions option is "Write only (Drop Box)"
scubbo 8 hours ago [-]
I was always under the impression that that was referencing the notion from spycraft.
latchkey 9 hours ago [-]
Don't forget Digital Ocean Droplets.
neom 4 hours ago [-]
FWIW, We called them droplets because drop of water in the (Digital)Ocean.
frankdenbow 8 hours ago [-]
Or Drop.io which got bought by Meta
dmillar 9 hours ago [-]
Low barrier services don't care who's first in this epoch.
giancarlostoro 7 hours ago [-]
Its not exactly a very elaborate name.
oasisbob 6 hours ago [-]
Elaborate enough?
Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.
inventor7777 5 hours ago [-]
Ha, that's funny. When you say "a buck or two" do you really mean it was almost nothing or did Apple compensate you appropriately? I'm also surprised that Apple didn't catch that before if it was trademarked.
inigyou 5 hours ago [-]
Why did you value Apple's goodwill more than a couple million dollars?
arm32 6 hours ago [-]
My... Aviato?
giancarlostoro 6 hours ago [-]
Infatrode, wtf is Infatrode
(I might be butchering it, course it is an Office Space reference)
He was my absolute favorite character in that show.
floydnoel 6 hours ago [-]
I think it was Initrode. I used to watch it every day haha
giancarlostoro 5 hours ago [-]
They intentionally butchered it I think but it still cracked me up
ares623 8 hours ago [-]
But this time it's with ~blockchain~ AI!
r_lee 8 hours ago [-]
ouch... I get that it's a simple concept but darn it really does seem like ctrl c ctrl v lmao
PaybackTony 2 hours ago [-]
There is a reason I had to lock my better version of this (https://quickish.site) behind Google OAuth to start. Like it or not, this type of stuff is going to be more popular than it was when Netlify / Heroku was doing it a decade ago.
There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.
inigyou 5 hours ago [-]
The protection is that they're rich enough to handle requests from law enforcement without going to jail themselves. They'll certainly pass your IP address to law enforcement if asked.
mattlondon 10 hours ago [-]
Only live for an hour.
But that won't stop people doing bad stuff for an hour I guess. Vibe code up some on-demand thing that you ping...
Y-bar 9 hours ago [-]
One hour is great for spearphishing attacks, once the victim has been infected their IT department will have no trace of the source.
hoppp 8 hours ago [-]
They already allow hosting static websites so I think the same guardrails are implemented.
Bender 8 hours ago [-]
I've never used CF so I could be ignorant in this matter. I assumed perhaps incorrectly that people had to verify their email address and delegate their domain(s) to CF including setting the glue records in the TLD servers meaning there is possibly a financial trail somewhere probably in the DNS registrars and perhaps a mail provider, whereas this is just drag-and-drop with no money trail.
I have no idea what guardrails they have in place in the background that blocks malware, CSAM, warez and such on their free accounts.
hoppp 6 hours ago [-]
Just having an account with an email address is enough.
They assign a subdomain automatically for uploads, same as cloudflare workers.
I don't know what they do, but implementing guardrails for this is possible nowadays with AI, but maybe they use a "mechanical turk"
tick_tock_tick 2 hours ago [-]
If you want your own domain you need to do a bunch of that but you can also host stuff on your own free subdomain of their workers.dev
DakotaR 10 hours ago [-]
Yeah, I was going to start a file drop site like 0x until realizing what it'd be used for
busymom0 5 hours ago [-]
At least when it comes to bad types of porn, it's be similar to Imgur allowing anonymous uploads. They already do CSAM scanning on uploads to their R2 storage:
That makes sense. In that case I have to assume that Cloudflare will not permit encrypted archive files as one can hide the image fingerprints all together.
colechristensen 1 hours ago [-]
Cloudflare in particular has an enormous fingerprint of your online activities.
Attempting to distribute/acquire illegal things through Cloudflare is an exercise in how to get caught.
Bender 1 hours ago [-]
True, though they front-end 4chan which have drawn/AI kiddo material which is a no-no in the US of A which makes it difficult for me to use as my primary news site and for obtaining medical advice.
mybbor 1 hours ago [-]
I co-founded a page builder for WordPress. Myself and my co-founders would joke about the "friends and family" problem. When friends or family asked us to help build their website, we usually pointed them away from our tool+WordPress for something simpler. It's nice to see more options out there that reduce the friction from someone with an idea to something published and sharable.
Several weeks ago, I got frustrated hitting the free tier limits on Netlify, and was looking for a self-hosted solution for this problem. I built it using a DO VPS and Caddy in the backend. It's free on Github. I was able to get the whole thing set up in an hour or two with the help of an agent. Feel free to give it a spin.
Cloudflare is obviously more trustworthy/robust here, but if name of the url matters to you, my site non.io [1] allows for named uploads, ie https://html.non.io/solara [2]
Somewhat useful if you want a url that isn't a hash / is more self descriptive.
[2] This was a demo of the output of a design tool I'm working on, only the home/accommodations/about pages work.
alberth 8 hours ago [-]
Reminds me of web development in the 1990s.
I honestly miss those days of deployment simplicity.
gesis 8 hours ago [-]
FTPing files to `~/public_html` was the best... Miss those days.
hoppp 8 hours ago [-]
It still works...
3form 7 hours ago [-]
It's not the ability that's missing; it's those days.
bigbuppo 5 hours ago [-]
Yeah, these days if you aren't treating even the smallest of small projects that do something like "query database spit out report" as if they are major IT infrstructure projects, complete with designers, UX specialists, and accessbility experts that never talked to a disabled person to find out what they actually need, spin up 375 ec2 instances, use 19 different database systems, and send the logs to a third party, then you're literally the worst person possible, or so I've been told.
It's like, my dude last week this was an excel spreadsheet.
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millsau 26 minutes ago [-]
What about the databases?
jcode1 1 minutes ago [-]
you cant drag and drop them not now
forgot_old_user 9 minutes ago [-]
what about them?
smalltorch 11 hours ago [-]
Hmm, that's fun and useful. Here is snake game for 60 minutes.
Your code appears to have a bug where if the arrow keys trigger a change of direction twice in a single frame interval, it can mistakenly send the snake back on itself.
Yes, it's expired I think - it only lasts for 1 hour
_pdp_ 10 hours ago [-]
It is cool to see not sure why you would use it.
Also it seems to me that this is a good way to exfiltrate data, rubber stamped by cloudflare themselves.
gruez 10 hours ago [-]
Isn't there already thousands of ways for exfiltrating data that must be whitelisted by corporate firewalls? office365/gsuite, for instance. Not to mention the classics like dns.
janandonly 11 hours ago [-]
Makes sense. It plays nicely with the vibe code kids who don’t know how to do GitHub or don’t know to ask their LLM about it.
luciana1u 2 hours ago [-]
Cloudflare Drop: finally, a domain registrar that understands the real use case is buying 47 domains at 3am and never deploying anything to any of them
hoppp 8 hours ago [-]
I can see this interface is for vibe coders haha
I have been hosting static websites with cloudflare for years and finding how to do it on the UI is getting harder as they add more things and reoranize.
asasidh 52 minutes ago [-]
exactly this. This is why i ended up moving to other platforms like vercel for random vibe coded projects than wrestle with cloudflare admin portal.
bart3r 1 hours ago [-]
So, if I need a company website, can i do the following:
- drop my html into Cloudflare drop
- setup a CNAME DNS for my domain to point at cloudflare URL
- profit
?
jatins 1 hours ago [-]
oh wow, a blast from the past. I remember a site called staticdrop or statichost like a decade ago, before vercel and everything that did the same thing
Good to see great ideas making a comeback
rickcarlino 9 hours ago [-]
Desktop operating systems should be able to run zipped web apps the way Electron apps run today. It ought to just be part of the OS.
ubertaco 5 hours ago [-]
Adobe Air, for the obscure nostalgia bomb
rickcarlino 5 hours ago [-]
I was going to mention Microsoft Active Desktop in the original comment, but I didn’t want HN to know how old I am.
dghlsakjg 2 hours ago [-]
Unzip it.
Double click the html file.
The OS will run the web app using a browser that is just part of the OS.
rickcarlino 2 hours ago [-]
You have clearly never actually tried that.
TZubiri 9 hours ago [-]
And if there's a form or something with a backend? Just break?
It's minesweeper, but the logic uses xstate/store. The link in the bottom is broken; it's supposed to go to `building-minesweeper-with-xstate-store.html`
I have no need for this but I love that my friends could vibe out a website, drop it here, claim it, and host it for pennies. This is great.
"Your site is reachable within ~32ms of 95% of the world’s Internet-connected population" isn't new but it's cool to see that achieved so trivially.
dowonseo 56 minutes ago [-]
I thought cf dns was down again
Cider9986 10 hours ago [-]
>Something went wrong
An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support.
I have a few qualms with this app.
BoppreH 9 hours ago [-]
Dropped a folder with a small HTML project, and after 20 seconds got "Something went wrong. An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support.".
Note how the error has zero information.
Looking in the network tab, a POST request to /upload returned 403 and an HTML page starting with "Sorry, you have been blocked", and to "email the site owner to let them know you were blocked".
I'm very tired of this adversarial approach to software coupled with vague errors.
EDIT: it was the file './git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.sample' created by default on git init. Maybe because it's Perl. Worse-than-useless "please try again" and "you've been blocked" for committing the sin of uploading a folder that's a git repository. Sigh...
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rjnz199 2 hours ago [-]
Wonder if it has CLI so coding agents can forward path straight to their API and it would give the CLI site's address. Now that would be cool!
jsabess24 39 minutes ago [-]
Interesting
7 hours ago [-]
throwaway81523 10 hours ago [-]
Wait, my first impression was that it points a local browser to your local browser. Now it looks like it uploads your folder to Cloudflare and temporarily serves it over the web. But is that different from what we used to do with FTP? Are there any databases or anything like basic PHP hosts supply? It's just static sites?
Is this a product or what? What's the purpose? Is there an API?
joenot443 10 hours ago [-]
A minute ago I had an HTML doc I wanted to share with a PM. It was a Claude prepared demo of a hypothetical feature. Lots of screenshots.
I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.
qingcharles 9 hours ago [-]
Absolutely agree. There's an insane "feature" of Claude Design which means you can only share the link to the design with other users on your account?! You can export the design, though, but then you need somewhere to quickly drop a bunch of HTML + assets. This would be perfect for that.
> Shareable Deliverables → jlnk.us (default)
The jlnk MCP server is configured machine-wide for all team agents. It publishes disposable public links: create_link(content, ttl) returns an unguessable URL anyone can open without logging in; it self-destructs after its TTL (4h/24h/72h, default 4h, max 5 MB). Also list_my_links() and delete_link(id).
> When handing a human (Founder, CEO reviewer) something to look at — QC screenshots, prototypes, reports, before/after comparisons — default to a jlnk.us link instead of a repo file path or local path. Use 72h for Founder review, shorter when the review window is same-day.
> Content must be ONE self-contained HTML file: inline CSS/JS, embed screenshots as base64 data URIs ().
> Downscale images to stay under the 5 MB cap.
> Links are public to anyone holding the URL. NEVER publish secrets, API keys, credentials, or private client data.
> Links expire — they are a viewing convenience, not the system of record. Durable artifacts still go to the repo and issue attachments as usual.
throwaway81523 8 hours ago [-]
Sort of like a pastebin for directory structures then, hmm.
deeprack4sure 4 hours ago [-]
Wow, that does sound like a serious hardship for someone who lets Claude write all their code for them.
Creating a folder for some files. Dude, maybe you should file for disability for repetetive stress disorder for "double clicking" or even single clicking twice.
This aggression will not STAND man!
We need computers to go back to pencil and paper but STILL be computers!
But not operated by me? Wierd operated by a fake bot me?
Wait! thats malware! Wha?
pantelisk 9 hours ago [-]
There are also solutions for sharing your homelab with others (basically tunneling from your machine->server (internet accessible) <-> client. Though, if your machine would go to sleep that whole chain would fall apart. A few good automatic solutions out there that solve the problem (no "just replace dropbox with ftp" type of argument).
However, I see the appeal of this. Kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet to be honest.
inigyou 5 hours ago [-]
SSH remote port forwarding. ssh -R 0.0.0.0:80:127.0.0.1:80
Requires the server's sshd config to have GatewayPorts yes, or the server will bind to 127.0.0.1 instead
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efields 9 hours ago [-]
I built a tool _just the other day_ for this exact purpose. Now my agents proactively make disposable links for me: https://jlnk.us
dmillar 9 hours ago [-]
Replit is used a lot in this context. Their agent is good, but their circumvent-policies-to-get-something-in-front-of-execs-quickly is an amazing and mis-priced feature.
throwaway81523 9 hours ago [-]
You could just upload to a personal or other website? I sometimes do that. Is there any security or privacy (e.g. password protection) for this Cloudflare Drop site?
vulture916 9 hours ago [-]
Check out Tailscale - they have TUNS + share the source files with someone else in tailnet.
asasidh 2 hours ago [-]
I think this is great. As usual the reaction from HN folks is on brand.
sgt 10 hours ago [-]
Tried uploading a ZIP and got:
"Something went wrong
An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."
TZubiri 9 hours ago [-]
When contacting support:
"Please upload a screenshot of the error by dragging a zip of the png file."
grg0 3 hours ago [-]
Please zip the contact by dragging a support of the screenshot.
altairprime 10 hours ago [-]
Hah! This is exactly how I’m serving the vestigial remnant of my blogging in the early 2000s from a ZIP-backed Cloudflare Worker today. Should I rebuild my site with Drop+Claim or is it fine as-is? I kind of feel like ‘if what I have works, don’t change it’ is the best path.
dmd 6 hours ago [-]
All I ever get is "Something went wrong
An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."
inigyou 5 hours ago [-]
I think that means you're a bot.
dmd 4 hours ago [-]
beep boop
anshumankmr 3 hours ago [-]
JAMstack for the rest of us I suppose.
ChrisArchitect 11 hours ago [-]
> No account needed. Deployment is active for 60 minutes, then expires unless you claim it.
This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
It really enables less tech savvy users. It would really enable frontpage/dreamworks-like flows for some people
jeffgreco 5 hours ago [-]
What is this for?
neom 5 hours ago [-]
I have hosted my personal site on Netlify for many many years because it's just basic js/html/css, I picked Netlify because I can just updated the index.html in the "website" folder on my desktop and literally drag it to Netlify to update it, saves a lot of time/thinking if you need something simple online quickly to show someone etc. I presume this is a similar idea.
ricardobeat 9 hours ago [-]
I remember doing this in 2006. FTP. Good times.
barnacs 8 hours ago [-]
I remember making a Qt app for a friend that would upload dropped files via ftp and copy the link to the clipboard. Good old days!
djfobbz 9 hours ago [-]
Yet I can't drag and drop a plain old HTML file without putting it in a folder or a ZIP file first.
spartanatreyu 6 hours ago [-]
You can, the file just has to be named "index.html".
Sort of, but not quite, like cherry-picking files out of an archive blob in S3.
(I’ll see if Claude and I can come up with a WARC archive->zip file converter too)
system2 10 hours ago [-]
It would be nice if we could see some information such as file size limitations, demos, link structure, management, etc. Am I expected to upload a random HTML file and see how it works?
petee 9 hours ago [-]
Yeah I'm very lost on what this is supposed to do -- "Summon your site" is quite vague. "see it live", like a demo? or is this actually published somewhere? Is it forever?
Desktop mode doesn't show any more information either
Fergusonb 9 hours ago [-]
Yep, I chucked it a file on my desktop:
index.html present
Max individual file size 25MB
Total file count <2000
Total size less than 100MB
heipei 10 hours ago [-]
Cloudflare is really good at launching features that facility low-friction deployment of malicious content (such as phishing) on the Internet, piggybacking on their hosting reputation and the fact that you can't easily block their ASN or domains.
simultsop 9 hours ago [-]
I don't know your experience. Once I was toying around and doing a basic auth with registration and so. The weekend was over and couldn't get back to that couple of months. The worker was quarantined and marked as phishing automatically. So I believe they have something in place to prevent those you complain.
jszymborski 9 hours ago [-]
Your anecdote just illustrates that their system detects legit uses as abuses, not that they have a system that effectively detects abuses.
simultsop 1 hours ago [-]
But it is not that they have nothing. It was my laziness that I could not setup dev prod env's. When you develop on preview, I don't think they will do much.
cute_boi 9 hours ago [-]
Cloudflare is also like a Chinese copycat machine. They mostly copy some successful project and sell it at cheap price.
Waterluvian 9 hours ago [-]
Be the change you want to see to make the world of your dreams.
And then sell its denizens malice protection services.
jaideepjagyasi 40 minutes ago [-]
shitty app, doesnt even exclude hidden folders
bossyTeacher 8 hours ago [-]
It could be fun to use a temporary Mediafire/Rapidshare/Megaupload service. Especially if you need to transfer something between an Android and an iPhone.
nalekberov 9 hours ago [-]
The internet will soon be flooded with even more scam landing pages.
cute_boi 9 hours ago [-]
And you should be using cloudflare to protect yourself...
xyst 5 hours ago [-]
geocities/angelfire but for Gen Z and A
arm32 6 hours ago [-]
This definitely won't get used to host unlimited phishing sites. /s
sleepynoodle 9 hours ago [-]
This is so cool.
S0y 9 hours ago [-]
Cloudflare has the astonishing ability to make me hate them more as a company every new feature they launch.
vevoe 9 hours ago [-]
why?
S0y 9 hours ago [-]
Every new feature they've launched recently can be used to make the web more dangerous for everyone except those who use Cloudflare.
denismenace 9 hours ago [-]
How would this make the web more dangerous? Its just static file hosting. Already wildly available!
TZubiri 9 hours ago [-]
The argument would be that they sell the kevlar and the guns
To be fair, CF mainly develops defensive cybersecurity products, the extent to which their tools might be used maliciously is pretty on par with other regular tools.
But, it just has bad optics and potential COI/Racketeering when CF is at both sides of the counter.
To be explicit, in case it isn't obvious,Cloudflare emerged as a DDoS protection company, detecting attacks from distributed sources is part of the raison d'etre, and domains and IP addresses are a key part of that infrastructure.
By subletting their own IP addresses for navigation with warp, and their own domains for hosting of webcontent with subdomain hosting, they are providing pooled anonimity for their customers, which is precisely what makes it very hard for defenders on the other side to implement foundational security measures like IP bans, or IP block bans, or domain bans, or Whois/RDAP domain analysis.
latchkey 9 hours ago [-]
phishing
collabs 10 hours ago [-]
Congratulations on launching!
I tried uploading a git repository that I have previously successfully published on Github pages. This is a "no build" website I have built with the help of Claude. It should just work but I keep getting an error. Who can I reach out to give them steps to reproduce? The website repository is public and I feel like anyone at Cloudflare who wants to reproduce my problem can quite literally clone my repo and upload it to cloudflare drop.
Please drop your cloudflare email address and I will reach out to you with my repository information.
turtlebits 10 hours ago [-]
Or you could do some of your own troubleshooting? Uploading a git repo is different than uploading a zipped/folder, especially if your index.htm/l isn't at the root.
collabs 7 hours ago [-]
Thank you for the reply. Index dot html is already at the root of the folder and it deploys just fine on GitHub pages.
aetherspawn 7 hours ago [-]
Hey stranger, welcome to 2026. It’s somewhat different to what you’re used to in 2035. We do things differently here.
By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of your Content.
If you're ok with that, fine. But I'm not.
We need these legal texts as short form TikTok content I am afraid.
Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems?
Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?
> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think HN should be a place where I am excited to see what others have to add. When I see a post I am excited to see what takes and spins others have on it. I do want real criticism and a lively debate about important things, but there has to be a balance.
I want to see other comments that seem like they genuinely want to help steer something or build people up. Sometimes I get the impression that's not happening on HN.
It’s just another take on shill / sheeple / etc. it gets old.
Which is sad, because so much amazing stuff is happening on the world right now, and seems to be only accelerating. For everybody.
I wished I could find all the science and technology as uplifting as my friends do.
What makes you say this?
Probably (I'm just assuming) because that person observes negative/cautious/"I don't like this because X and Y and also Z"/etc sentiment too much and feels like people are only quick to notice issues while forgetting about good sides.
It's only an assumption, though.
Also, they said "year 1" not "1 year old"
I actually setup "xor-gate" for a while, which was trying to be a similar thing co-authored by a friend, but it was too time consuming and we gave up.
Did the author pass? I'm not trying to be crass, but I don't know the details.
Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors.
Now tell me what is cool
That's awesome, glad to hear it
Not immediately being a copyright bootlicker.
The fact that you went straight to "BuT pIrAtEs" already shows who you actually care: Corpos, not people.
[1]: https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Illicit-goods/Projects/Pr...
Piracy is cool. Information wants to be free.
I hate the corporate bootlicking that is so prevalent here.
There's more to the Internet than the world wide web, though. NNTP and IRC communities remain vibrant, if diminished in size
Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.
(I might be butchering it, course it is an Office Space reference)
He was my absolute favorite character in that show.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-08-...
But that won't stop people doing bad stuff for an hour I guess. Vibe code up some on-demand thing that you ping...
I have no idea what guardrails they have in place in the background that blocks malware, CSAM, warez and such on their free accounts.
They assign a subdomain automatically for uploads, same as cloudflare workers.
I don't know what they do, but implementing guardrails for this is possible nowadays with AI, but maybe they use a "mechanical turk"
https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-simpler-path-to-a-safer-intern...
Attempting to distribute/acquire illegal things through Cloudflare is an exercise in how to get caught.
Several weeks ago, I got frustrated hitting the free tier limits on Netlify, and was looking for a self-hosted solution for this problem. I built it using a DO VPS and Caddy in the backend. It's free on Github. I was able to get the whole thing set up in an hour or two with the help of an agent. Feel free to give it a spin.
https://github.com/RobbyMcCullough/honeydrop
Somewhat useful if you want a url that isn't a hash / is more self descriptive.
[1] Launch discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695
[2] This was a demo of the output of a design tool I'm working on, only the home/accommodations/about pages work.
I honestly miss those days of deployment simplicity.
It's like, my dude last week this was an excel spreadsheet.
https://drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev
Tried from two hosts, different countries.
Also it seems to me that this is a good way to exfiltrate data, rubber stamped by cloudflare themselves.
I have been hosting static websites with cloudflare for years and finding how to do it on the UI is getting harder as they add more things and reoranize.
- drop my html into Cloudflare drop
- setup a CNAME DNS for my domain to point at cloudflare URL
- profit
?
Good to see great ideas making a comeback
Double click the html file.
The OS will run the web app using a browser that is just part of the OS.
https://drop-1e1a536f-10d.honeysuckle-gull.workers.dev/
It's minesweeper, but the logic uses xstate/store. The link in the bottom is broken; it's supposed to go to `building-minesweeper-with-xstate-store.html`
I have no need for this but I love that my friends could vibe out a website, drop it here, claim it, and host it for pennies. This is great.
"Your site is reachable within ~32ms of 95% of the world’s Internet-connected population" isn't new but it's cool to see that achieved so trivially.
I have a few qualms with this app.
Note how the error has zero information.
Looking in the network tab, a POST request to /upload returned 403 and an HTML page starting with "Sorry, you have been blocked", and to "email the site owner to let them know you were blocked".
I'm very tired of this adversarial approach to software coupled with vague errors.
EDIT: it was the file './git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.sample' created by default on git init. Maybe because it's Perl. Worse-than-useless "please try again" and "you've been blocked" for committing the sin of uploading a folder that's a git repository. Sigh...
Is this a product or what? What's the purpose? Is there an API?
I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.
Here's the instructions my agents have:
> Shareable Deliverables → jlnk.us (default) The jlnk MCP server is configured machine-wide for all team agents. It publishes disposable public links: create_link(content, ttl) returns an unguessable URL anyone can open without logging in; it self-destructs after its TTL (4h/24h/72h, default 4h, max 5 MB). Also list_my_links() and delete_link(id).
> When handing a human (Founder, CEO reviewer) something to look at — QC screenshots, prototypes, reports, before/after comparisons — default to a jlnk.us link instead of a repo file path or local path. Use 72h for Founder review, shorter when the review window is same-day.
> Content must be ONE self-contained HTML file: inline CSS/JS, embed screenshots as base64 data URIs ().
> Downscale images to stay under the 5 MB cap.
> Links are public to anyone holding the URL. NEVER publish secrets, API keys, credentials, or private client data.
> Links expire — they are a viewing convenience, not the system of record. Durable artifacts still go to the repo and issue attachments as usual.
Creating a folder for some files. Dude, maybe you should file for disability for repetetive stress disorder for "double clicking" or even single clicking twice.
This aggression will not STAND man!
We need computers to go back to pencil and paper but STILL be computers! But not operated by me? Wierd operated by a fake bot me? Wait! thats malware! Wha?
However, I see the appeal of this. Kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet to be honest.
Requires the server's sshd config to have GatewayPorts yes, or the server will bind to 127.0.0.1 instead
"Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."
"Please upload a screenshot of the error by dragging a zip of the png file."
(https://x.com/BraydenWilmoth/status/2074894829616509358)
If cloudflare wants to be the next "Megaupload" what business is it of yours?
There is a guy named kim DOT com. That is actually fucking cool. Whether or not he himself is actually cool. Or in prison.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808481
https://github.com/SpeedcubeDE/speedcube.de-forum-archive is an example use case.
Sort of, but not quite, like cherry-picking files out of an archive blob in S3.
(I’ll see if Claude and I can come up with a WARC archive->zip file converter too)
Desktop mode doesn't show any more information either
And then sell its denizens malice protection services.
Kevlar:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/
Guns:
https://support.cloudflarewarp.com/
To be fair, CF mainly develops defensive cybersecurity products, the extent to which their tools might be used maliciously is pretty on par with other regular tools.
But, it just has bad optics and potential COI/Racketeering when CF is at both sides of the counter.
To be explicit, in case it isn't obvious,Cloudflare emerged as a DDoS protection company, detecting attacks from distributed sources is part of the raison d'etre, and domains and IP addresses are a key part of that infrastructure.
By subletting their own IP addresses for navigation with warp, and their own domains for hosting of webcontent with subdomain hosting, they are providing pooled anonimity for their customers, which is precisely what makes it very hard for defenders on the other side to implement foundational security measures like IP bans, or IP block bans, or domain bans, or Whois/RDAP domain analysis.
I tried uploading a git repository that I have previously successfully published on Github pages. This is a "no build" website I have built with the help of Claude. It should just work but I keep getting an error. Who can I reach out to give them steps to reproduce? The website repository is public and I feel like anyone at Cloudflare who wants to reproduce my problem can quite literally clone my repo and upload it to cloudflare drop.
Please drop your cloudflare email address and I will reach out to you with my repository information.