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Direct file transfer over WebRTC

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
763GitHub stars
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Direct file transfer over WebRTC

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-04-08 03:37:38 UTC to 2019-04-08 14:35:08 UTC.

0122019-04-08 03:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 8, 03:002019-04-08 04:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 05:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 06:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 07:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 08:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 8, 08:002019-04-08 09:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 10:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-04-08 11:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 12:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 13:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-08 14:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-08 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 8, 14:00

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Apr 8, 03:002019-04-08 03:00:00 UTC2019-04-08 04:00:00 UTC110
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Apr 8, 05:002019-04-08 05:00:00 UTC2019-04-08 06:00:00 UTC000
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Apr 8, 14:002019-04-08 14:00:00 UTC2019-04-08 15:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Despite how awesome WebRTC is, every time I see it my mind instantly goes to whether I understand STUN/TURN enough. They're part of the overall concept of ICE (Interactive Connection Establishment)[0], and STUN is a protocol for negotiated direct peer-to-peer connections[1] whereas TURN[2] is a relay mode that is used when a direct connection cannot be achieved for either side. When I saw the claim "without the need of a third party", it didn't fit with my knowledge of WebRTC so I went spelunking through the code and found that they do indeed use a STUN server[3], in particular google's "stun.l.google.com:19302". Just want to point out to those who might be relatively new to WebRTC, p2p mechanisms, etc -- it is surprisingly hard for two computers to talk to each other over the wide internet, even in this day and age. Even if you're behind
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the same router things aren't necessarily straight forward. [EDIT] - Also note that in the case of TURN, it is up to the application layer to encrypt communications[4]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Estab... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_... [3]: https://github.com/Antonito/gfile/blob/v0.1.0/internal/sessi... [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23085335/is-webrtc-traff...
In Show HN: Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go

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