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State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•2m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
1•vinhnx•3m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
2•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

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What if you just did a startup instead?

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Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

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PID Controller

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Kubernetes MCP Server

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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•51m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Help me understand Signal communication blurb

3•ajr0•2mo ago
at bottom of signal communication on cellebrite [0] it states :

>The completely unrelated

>In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.

can someone help me understand if this is serious or not and what it actually means?

[0] https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

Comments

genezeta•2mo ago
Elsewhere in that blog post:

    we found that it’s possible to execute arbitrary code on a Cellebrite machine simply by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in any app on a device that is subsequently plugged into Cellebrite and scanned
TowerTall•2mo ago
HN Discussion about the blog (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26891811

ajr0•2mo ago
appreciate the extra info!
ajr0•2mo ago
I did not connect these dots, I am now, thank you!