Git.io: GitHub will maintain active links in a read-only state

• linux

  980 170,074 10.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree

You know you can shorten the commit hash?

For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9e02977bfa/kernel/dma...

I don't find this ugly, it's even very human readable. There's all info in the url that you even can use in the future if GitHub ever goes away.

• guillotine

  2 485 10.0 Ruby

  URL shortening hobby kit

Unfortunately, most people just throw "eh, it's low-maintenance".

To bring down the point, here's the source code for that link shortener: https://github.com/technoweenie/guillotine. It was last updated in 2015. If you don't believe that this is the source code, this was directly linked to in its announcement: https://github.blog/2011-11-10-git-io-github-url-shortener/. And if the extreme lag (in an attempt to save the links) is indicative if its backbone, it's just running in a single server, which is very likely to be horribly outdated.

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• YOURLS

  47 10,183 7.1 PHP

  🔗 The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

  

• promnesia

  33 1,686 7.8 Python

  Another piece of your extended mind

It's kind of tricky to do in general case, e.g. even hackernews is keeping meaningful semantic information in id= query parameter.

Because of that it ultimately needs to a site-specific database/algorithm, perhaps with a fallback to the default behaviour like simply cleaning up the most common garbage like (_encoding/usg/etc). I suspect it's possible to use some sort of machine learning to guess the meaningful parts of the URL path/query/fragments, but even for that we need some human curation for the training set. I wish we could collaborate on a shared database/library for that, have sketched some ideas/applications/prior art here: https://beepb00p.xyz/exobrain/projects/cannon.html

I started thinking about it since I have a similar problem in Promnesia (https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#readme), a knowledge management tool I'm working on. Ideally I want to normalise URLS, so they address the exact bit of information, and nothing more.

• AdguardFilters

  101 2,797 10.0 Adblock Filter List

  AdGuard Content Blocking Filters

  

AdGuard's URL tracking filters (https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/Tr...) should cover most of URL cleaning. Even if there are websites it doesn't filter all parameters from, it should be good enough for the most part.

• zws

  7 1,608 9.7 TypeScript

  Shorten URLs using invisible spaces

  

This one seems the worst: https://github.com/zws-im/zws (Shorten URLs with invisible spaces.)

I played around with it and there was some seriously sketchy interstitial stuff going on.

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