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OpenAPI Generator CLI

https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator-cli
1•mfbx9da4•6m ago•0 comments

Rising SoC 2 Compliance Signals Growing Security Expectations Across USA

1•rnkseo•6m ago•0 comments

Tesla Patent Don't multiply, add. It saves time and energy

1•daly•8m ago•0 comments

Complete Claude Code configuration: agents skills hooks commands rules MCPs

https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code
1•bzGoRust•8m ago•0 comments

Too Helpful to Be Safe: User-Mediated Attacks on Planning and Web-Use Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10758
1•7777777phil•10m ago•0 comments

An Inauspicious Start for Bari Weiss at CBS News

https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/an-inauspicious-start-for-bari-weiss-at-cbs/
1•petethomas•10m ago•0 comments

Why My Friends Should Not Work in Fucking Consulting

https://twitter.com/samthebaam/status/2012587954296819757
1•samthebaam•11m ago•0 comments

Transparent Startup Experiment – Help 100 People Turn Ideas into Products

https://t9t.io/blog/en/0
1•timqian•11m ago•0 comments

XAI Colossus datacentre is using illegal, cancer-causing generators

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
2•soundworlds•11m ago•1 comments

Concerned about safety in your community and beyond?

https://icemap.app
2•cranberryturkey•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: G0 – Detect LLM hallucinations with a 3-criterion grounding metric

https://huggingface.co/spaces/aphoticshaman/g0-detector
1•benthicshadow•15m ago•0 comments

Deadly sins of software engineers productivity

https://strategizeyourcareer.com/p/the-7-deadly-sins-of-software-engineers-productivity
2•birdculture•17m ago•0 comments

We Stopped CI, Abandoned Code Review, and Embraced AI Pair Programming

https://www.arcblock.io/blog/en/first-principles-of-ai-native-engineering
1•robmao•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AskUCP – UCP protocol explorer showing all products on Shopify

https://askucp.com/
1•possiblelion•20m ago•0 comments

ARIA accessible text transcripts of Dilbert comics from 1989 to 2023

https://github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive
1•rcarmo•20m ago•0 comments

Twelfth LangSec Workshop

https://langsec.org/spw26/
1•transpute•22m ago•0 comments

Stop Bloating Your Claude.md: Progressive Disclosure for AI Coding Tools

https://alexop.dev/posts/stop-bloating-your-claude-md-progressive-disclosure-ai-coding-tools/
1•m-hodges•23m ago•0 comments

I Stored a Banana image within the Wikipedia edit history

https://github.com/MadAvidCoder/Bananapedia
2•MadAvidCoder•24m ago•2 comments

Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

https://www.ru.nl/en/staff/news/radboud-university-selects-fairphone-as-standard-smartphone-for-e...
1•ardentsword•26m ago•0 comments

MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?

https://github.com/VBranimir/mTOTP/tree/develop
18•brna-2•28m ago•8 comments

Show HN: RouterLab – open-source AI API with Swiss hosting

https://routerlab.ch
1•ScioNos•28m ago•0 comments

European alternatives to tech brands: Add yours

https://www.uniqkey.eu
1•utsavchopra•33m ago•3 comments

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/thoughts_and_observations_regarding_apple_creator_studio
2•tambourine_man•33m ago•0 comments

Reading and Writing JFR Files Programmatically

https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2026/01/19/reading-and-writing-jfr-files-programmatically/
1•mfiguiere•35m ago•0 comments

Icebreakers in the Arctic: An Overlooked Environmental Concern

https://steadystate.org/icebreakers-in-the-arctic-an-overlooked-environmental-concern/
1•onearth•37m ago•0 comments

Buona fine e buon principio – CinEmanuele #16

https://cinemanuele.substack.com/p/buona-fine-e-buon-principio-cinemanuele
1•grouchoromano•38m ago•0 comments

Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 and 2025 run on Linux

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-patches-wine-to-make-photoshop-2021-and-202...
3•tambourine_man•39m ago•0 comments

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html
2•signa11•46m ago•0 comments

Explainable Unsupervised Query Tagging

https://emiruz.com/post/2026-01-17-qu-tagger/
1•usgroup•47m ago•0 comments

PicoPCMCIA

https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
1•rcarmo•49m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

https://bitchat.free/
58•no_creativity_•1h ago

Comments

jagermo•54m ago
I don't know. I do not like Jack Dorey's involvement. Not a big fan of his.

I'd rather use Briar (https://briarproject.org/)

atoav•52m ago
If you don't like a thing and share that dislike, care to elaborate your reasoning so others can profit from it?
bariswheel•11m ago
Indeed, it's immature to disclose an opinion without being forthcoming and add some objective rationale behind a bold conclusion as disliking an entire person. It may be something they said, or did, getting specific would help, ideally something that is relevant to the original thread. It's not entirely helpful and potentially a negative impact to just imply you don't like someone. Do what you want obviously, that's my 2 cents.
gloxkiqcza•44m ago
There’s no app for Apple platforms making it a lot less useful.
jagermo•38m ago
fair point, especially in the west. But looking at the market share, Android is probably the platform to build for, especially if you have an additional phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
maqp•34m ago
That's probably because AFAIK Apple doesn't allow process forking, making any Tor-based messenger almost impossible to run as Tor would have to run as part of the main thread.
prmoustache•33m ago
Briar has the advantage of being usable with bluetooth and internet so it makes it much more useful.
hardran3•25m ago
Bitchat also has internet based chat, in addition to bluetooth mesh.
troupo•12m ago
Apple pulled similar apps from the App Store: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768841864/after-china-objects...
PatronBernard•5m ago
Why?
mikecamara•51m ago
What happened to that fire chat app that did the same thing back in 2014 or something?
budududuroiu•38m ago
Seeing Jack committing to this repo is kinda wild to me. I also wish I had fuck-you money and could spend my day engrossed in whatever I find interesting
maqp•36m ago
Could someone please explain in what situation do you use a BlueTooth messaging app? Like, even BT5 range won't exceed 400 meters. What good is this? You're not going to send images to journalists from protests with it (you'd do wisely to keep it in airplane mode until you get home and then you'd upload them to their securedrop or whatever), and you don't need off-band security to let the kids know it's dinner time.
melting_snow•28m ago
I see two use cases: * Communication between protestors * Illegal activities, but here I can imagine that bluetooth range is too small
reddalo•23m ago
I remember when Telegram had a "Nearby" feature. I remember seeing many not-so-legal activities around me, even in the range of 1 km.
thijson•22m ago
I remember reading that men and women in Saudi Arabia are forbidden from interacting directly in a bar setting. So instead they were using Bluetooth to covertly connect and communicate.
catlifeonmars•21m ago
> Communication between protestors > Illegal activities

Often one and the same since the first thing those in power try to do is make various activities by protestors illegal

yaris•25m ago
Any situation when mobile internet cannot be used. That is not only protests, but also legal gatherings, i.e. street concerts, or places where mobile coverage is poor in general.
oreilles•2m ago
Or planes.
gchokov•24m ago
This particular one supports mesh, so the range could be way way higher.
behnamoh•16m ago
In Iran right now... Internet shut down while the regime keeps slaughtering people at the order of 4x9/11.
zenmac•1m ago
One of these bluetooth messaging app was made by a developer who was on a cruise ship with family, and the Internet over satellite costs an arm and leg. So he wrote an app to communicate with his families over bluetooth.

Also why would one want to have the data go over some servers thousands miles away when the device is right next to you? Seems like bluetooth is the perfect way to communicate for devices that are close to each other.

reconnecting•24m ago
Here are original posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364146

nicois•1m ago
One missing feature: deferred message propagation. As far as I understand, while messages will be rebroadcast until a TTL is exhausted, there is no mechanism to retain in-transit messages and retransmit them to future peers. While this adds overheads, it's table stakes for real-life usage.

You should be able to write a message and not rely on the recipient being available when you press send. You should also be able to run nodes to cache messages for longer, and opt in to holding messages for a greater time period. This would among other things allow couriers between disjoint groups of users.