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snowflaxxx — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:08:57 +0000

Meet Teleport Pro

New comment by snowflaxxx in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

snowflaxxx — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:47:22 +0000

You're quoting me back at me. The quote is still correct. The backend doesn't exist. The messenger works. If that breaks your mental model of how software should be built — good. That was the point.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:04:04 +0000

That’s literally what release 1.03 enables.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:00:16 +0000

Fixed last night.

The GitHub-specific adapter is now one of several.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:58:53 +0000

Not mine lol

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:56:44 +0000

That’s exactly what I thought after posting — so now it supports end‑to‑end encryption without a handshake. Still a single HTML file. Still no backend.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:54:19 +0000

documentation was updated in the last few days. You might want to read the section about the funny legal collision this architecture creates — not sure, but it might apply to other jurisdictions too, not just Russia. Either way, it's an interesting side effect of using generic git hosting as a message transport.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:51:27 +0000

My take: hitting three API endpoints doesn’t require a bundler or 400 MB of node_modules — most apps, especially hobby single‑page projects, can and should be built without a framework.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:47:41 +0000

We don't say no backend — we say not our backend.

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snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:45:56 +0000

Email and SMS are faster. Also monitored, moderated, and mined.

Macaroni doesn't fix speed. It fixes who holds the keys — and who gets sued. That's the point.

New comment by snowflaxxx in "Show HN: Macaroni Messenger 1.03 – small documentation fixes"

snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:48:37 +0000

Wellcome to the rabbit hole

Macaroni Messenger 1.03 – small documentation fixes

snowflaxxx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vanyapr/makaroshki/releases/tag/v1.03

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525102

Points: 3

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New comment by snowflaxxx in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

snowflaxxx — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:42:55 +0000

You might find this branch interesting:

https://github.com/vanyapr/makaroshki/tree/macaroni

Turns out the messenger wasn’t enough, so now it also stores its own lore.

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snowflaxxx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:40:11 +0000

$2 for reading a text?

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snowflaxxx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:39:58 +0000

The closing tag is mandatory because Macaroni Messenger plugins are inserted immediately before it. This is the convention defined by the plugin system.

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snowflaxxx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:12:48 +0000

That’s fair criticism of the current implementation.

The idea isn’t that transport magically disappears. The idea is that users don’t have to deploy, operate, pay for, or even think about transport.

GitHub happens to provide one out of the box, which makes the proof of concept extremely easy to try.

If I need to run databases, message brokers, servers and monitoring just to send my mom “please cook macaroni”, I’ve already lost interest.

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snowflaxxx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:57:04 +0000

True, but imagine this use case:

A messenger file with hardcoded settings and a hardcoded PGP key, stored on a USB stick.

You send a message.

Then you physically destroy the USB stick.

The client, the key, and the configuration are gone.

At some point the joke starts looking suspiciously like a dead-drop communication protocol.

How do you like that, FBI?

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snowflaxxx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:53:29 +0000

You just described the Macaroni plugin system — plugins are literally appended as