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Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram

https://globalvoices.org/2025/06/20/russia-prepares-to-get-rid-of-whatsapp-and-possibly-telegram/

11•donohoe•2h ago

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jleyank•2h ago

Isn’t Iran confirming the risk of using such applications due to data leakage/harvesting? What was big brother in the 60’s is glued to your hand or even forehead now.

kgwxd•2h ago

goes to show, freedom of speech and assembly, even virtualy, scares them enough to outweigh those "benefits".

FinnKuhn•2h ago

> Possibly Telegram

Russia tried this from 2018 to 2020 and it didn't really work. Is there any reason to believe that they would succeed now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia

rivn•2h ago

2018-2020 was a saner time, friend. much saner time :(

tetromino_•1h ago

Sounds like the TikTok ban a la Russe - a local tech giant using national security as a pretext to ban foreign-based competitors.

Jay Miner, Atari and Amiga computer designer

https://dfarq.homeip.net/jay-miner-atari-and-amiga-computer-designer/

1•zdw•1m ago•0 comments

I Ranked All 142 HTML Elements [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYtYnhxeNc

1•promiseofbeans•1m ago•0 comments

The differences between OrioleDB and Neon

https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-neon-differences

1•mansueli•5m ago•0 comments

Jeton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeton

1•LaserDiscMan•6m ago•0 comments

Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/06/19/mark-zuckerberg-is-spending-megabucks-on-an-ai-hiring-spree

1•edward•7m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 as the First Open-Source Release

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL-2.6-Open-Source

1•ksec•8m ago•0 comments

Claude's Deep Research Compares to Gemini and ChatGPT

https://lifehacker.com/tech/comparing-claude-ai-to-chatgpt-gemini

1•Bluestein•8m ago•0 comments

16B Passwords Leaked

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/06/20/16-billion-apple-facebook-google-passwords-leaked---change-yours-now/

3•marifjeren•8m ago•0 comments

Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke

https://www.seangoedecke.com/killswitches/

2•rbanffy•9m ago•0 comments

Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/19/congestion-pricing-in-manhattan-is-a-predictable-success

3•edward•9m ago•0 comments

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09154-0

1•rntn•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ConfigKit – in browser Mac defaults creator

https://explosion-scratch.github.io/configkit/

1•explosion-s•11m ago•0 comments

ReadStash: An online eBook library and reader

https://readstash.vercel.app

1•mwooyo•11m ago•0 comments

GLP-1s Should Be First Step to Prevent Heart Disease, Top Cardiology Group Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/glp-1s-should-be-first-step-to-prevent-heart-disease-acc-says

1•toomuchtodo•12m ago•1 comments

Starquake (1985)

https://mdpub.github.io/cheela/starquake/index.html

1•cheela•15m ago•0 comments

Every Copenhagen bus, train and metro in one map

https://www.rejseplanen.dk/bin/help.exe/mn?L=vs_dot.vs_livemap&tpl=fullscreenmap

1•Carlee•17m ago•0 comments

Oakley Meta Glasses

https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/oakley-meta-ai-glasses-sports-wearables-hstn/

1•tzury•20m ago•0 comments

What's Happening to Reading

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/whats-happening-to-reading

1•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Could the Semicolon Die Out?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/could-the-semicolon-die-out-a-recent-study-finds-a-marked-decline-in-its-usage-180986689/

1•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Authorship for sale: Nature investigates how paper mills work

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01824-3

1•Brajeshwar•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why is'put things elsewhere and design access'so natural as things grow?

1•jupiterglimpse•21m ago•1 comments

Amoeba: A distributed operating system for the 1990s (1990) [pdf]

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/Amoeba1990s.pdf

1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to log your AI agents progress

https://www.taskerio.com

1•surfskatr•22m ago•0 comments

Reducing LLM memory drift and what I missed in my first post

1•CogniFlow•24m ago•0 comments

How normal am I? (2020)

https://www.hownormalami.eu

1•andrewzeno•25m ago•0 comments

The Portable Memory Wallet Fallacy: Four Fundamental Problems

https://blog.getzep.com/the-portable-memory-wallet-fallacy-four-fundamental-problems/

1•roseway4•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spiceblow – Raycast extension to query SQL databases with AI

https://www.raycast.com/xmorse/spiceblow-database

1•xmorse•26m ago•0 comments

What I learned applying as a graduate Software Engineer(2024)

https://matada.org/posts/what-i-learned-applying/

1•matada_•26m ago•0 comments

Bosses want you to know AI is coming for your job

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/20/ai-ceos-predict-kill-jobs/

1•7402•27m ago•0 comments

Details about Teslas 'Robotaxi' launch: there's a 'safety monitor' in front seat

https://electrek.co/2025/06/20/tesla-releases-details-robotaxi-launch-safety-monitor-front-seat/

2•Flockster•28m ago•1 comments