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snapchat-fs
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hausdorff / snapchat-fs

snapchat-fs

Turns Snapchat into a datastore that can manage and store your files.

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What it is

Turns Snapchat into a datastore that can manage and store your files.

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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-12-19 02:22:53 UTC to 2024-03-22 21:42:48 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
antics·May 25, 2022
This reminds me of SnapchatFS[1], a side project I made about 8 years ago (see also HN thread[2] at that time). From the README.md: > Since Snapchat imposes few restrictions on what data can be uploaded (i.e., not just images), I've taken to using it as a system to send files to myself and others. > Snapchat FS is the tool that allows this. It provides a simple command line interface for uploading arbitrary files into Snapchat, managing them, and downloading them to any other computer with access to this package. [1]: https://github.com/hausdorff/snapchat-fs [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932508
In YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos
antics·Dec 25, 2013
I'm one of the authors of Snapchat FS [1]. In order to build this, my coauthor Chad and I had to reverse engineer their API, which included decompiling the Android APK and snooping around for the call site of util encrypt. While a lot of the security problems they have could indeed be fixed, I think it's worth noting a couple things. * The Snapchat API is fundamentally insecurable as it exists today. The problem is not that Snapchat could have secured their API against unauthorized access and simply failed to do so, it's that their API cannot possibly be secured, AND they happened to make some bad mistakes along the way. Even a serious security team would have been unable to lock everything down. They might have locked some of these issues down, but they would not have gotten all of them. * So, while I sympathize with the feeling that Sna
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pchat is anti-OSS and anti-hacker, realistically, I also sympathize with Snapchat's position. They don't have that many options. What are they going to do? Their public position -- i.e., that you should not break their TOS -- does not strike me as especially unreasonable considering that investing millions into security will still not give them a bulletproof solution. * Also worth noting is that Snapchat does not unilaterally ignore security inquiries, or at least, they did not ignore me. I emailed them personally and the response I got (from a high-level employee) was warm and encouraging. I did not get the cold shoulder. In fact, I found our interactions quite pleasant, and it made me want to help them lock things down. Ultimately I think it's easy to write off the team as just a bunch of incompetent fools, but let's be realistic here: it's easier to break things than make them provably unbreakable. Again, yes they've made some bad mistakes, but posturing about breaking a system that cannot be secured is perhaps not the best use of Gibson's obvious talent. The same also goes for the many other security researchers who've audited the API. [1] https://github.com/hausdorff/snapchat-fs
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