acheong08/obi-sync
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Reverse engineering of the native Obsidian sync and publish server
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-09-01 · latest 2026-05-18
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And I remember that did happen at one point: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync The mechanism that allowed that was patched as a vulnerability
comment by yogorenapan · 2026-05-18 · in Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian -
…somehow API clients are abused as a sync cash cow: - insomnia deliberately broke a 3rd party sync: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync - I could go on
comment by laurensr · 2025-08-05 · in Postman: Major Outage on Desktop and Browser -
…version of obsidian on my phone because it works with my hacks to self host the native sync server https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync For other open source contributions, I generally just add features I want or fix random bugs. I use…
comment by acheong08 · 2025-05-30 · in What motivates you to contribute to open source projects? -
> without paying $100 per year There was a way! https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync From what I understand, the author played cat and mouse with them until he gave up. Obsidian repeatedly “patched” the “vulnerabilities” that allowed you…
comment by yogorenapan · 2024-02-25 · in Love Letter to Obsidian -
…holes as less important I guess? Anyway, I decided to fork and make it work with v1.4.5. Enjoy https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment...
comment by t3chguy · 2023-09-04 · in Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server -
…many that exist already), or reverse engineering the app. See comments in the issue on the repo: https://github.com/acheong08/obi-sync/issues/19#issuecomment...
comment by kepano · 2023-09-01 · in Obsidian intentionally patched OSS sync despite CEO's HN statement of tolerance