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saljam / webwormhole

webwormhole

Peer authenticated WebRTC. A WebRTC-based clone of magic-wormhole.

16Distinct people
23Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Peer authenticated WebRTC. A WebRTC-based clone of magic-wormhole.

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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, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year23 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-04-29 21:05:46 UTC to 2025-10-06 03:07:27 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 0 submissions, 13 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 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): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13013
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Here is a list of open source options. This isn't the first time I have shared this on here either. Perhaps this is another sign that web search is failing us. SnapDrop - Site: https://snapdrop.net/ - Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop ShareDrop - Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/ - Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop FilePizza - Site: https://file.pizza/ - Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza Original Wormhole - https://webwormhole.io/ - https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole
In How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
AV1 support is already available in libwebrtc! So when I started building Pion the target use case was to make it easier to build scalable servers. Instead of interacting with a WebRTC servers REST API to query information/load balance I wanted to have it all in one code base. It also is really useful to have Media+Transport decoupled. Lots of use cases I didn't realize grew out of that. * Teleoperation/robotics (https://github.com/Ragnar-H/TelloGo) * Control remote software (https://github.com/m1k1o/neko) * Cross platform file sharing (https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole) * Sending pre-recorded media (RTMP/HLS/RTSP -> WebRTC) * Custom DataChannel servers/bridges (https://snowflake.torproject.org/) Lots of other cool ones in https://github.com/pion/awesome-pion I need to update it. It has been a bit since I have looked through https://p
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In Show HN: AV1 and WebRTC
I've been bookmarking point-to-point file transfer tools. These are not file hosting services like Firefox Send; both endpoints must be online at the same time. Nevertheless, I suspect they might be useful to some other folks here. Please post corrections or more detail on any of these if you have it. I haven't had time to try most of them yet. WebWormhole: WebRTC encryption, direct data transfer, large file support, browser and command line. Looks more versatile than the others. Has not undergone security review yet. https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://webwormhole.io/ Magic Wormhole: Data relay required (public relay is often slow), mainly command line. https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/ croc: End-to-end encryption, data relay required (I think), command line only. https://github.com
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/schollz/croc https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/ File Pizza: WebTorrent, seems to load entire file into RAM, browser only. https://github.com/kern/filepizza https://file.pizza/ Snapdrop: WebRTC encryption, local sharing only (I think), browser only. https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop https://snapdrop.net/
In Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes
I think WebRTC is still getting started also :) I love the space, here are some of my favorites. * Open Source classic game streaming - https://github.com/giongto35/cloud-game * Controlling industrial construction equipment - https://twitter.com/shirokunet/status/1268011883816054784 * Run a web browser remotely, great for low spec computers - https://github.com/nurdism/neko * Use NAT Traversal to access hosts. No more bastion hosts/3rd party services - https://github.com/mxseba/rtc-ssh * Use Tor via WebRTC DataChannels - https://snowflake.torproject.org/ * Fly a drone via WASD in the browser - https://github.com/oliverpool/tello-webrtc-fpv * Share files P2P in a cross-platform way. I HATE paying to transfer files, seems so basic - https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole * Access a friends terminal from your browser via P2P - https://github
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In Peer-to-Peer Communications with WebRTC

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