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Show HN: People you know, an end-to-end encrypted private Instagram replacement

https://peopleyouk.now/
1•jsbg•48m ago
I built an alternative to popular social networks because I was sick of the unending enshittification of instagram. Every UX change in recent years intended to make their app more addictive to teenagers has made me want to use it less, but I don't want to lose contact with the actual people that are close to me. First it was stories to make it your job to open the app every day, and then "everything is a reel" to try to get you to scroll infinitely.

This app is a more minimalist way to share photos and short videos with people you actually know. There are no public profiles so no follows, only mutuals. The feed is in reverse chronological order and there are no suggested posts or suggested connections. When sharing, you can choose the audience (you can create groups or select individual people), it's not necessarily to all your mutuals.

Other UX niceties I added are the fact that you can only see comments on your friends' posts from people you know (so no more terrible takes from their random uncle you've never met). There is also the concept of albums where the audience is the album members, who are not necessarily connected to each other, which can be useful for events or group trips.

Beyond the worsening UX of other apps, I know a lot of people who have left social media, either by deleting their account or by just never interacting, because they don't trust big tech companies with their media. E.g. people who don't share photos of their family on facebook even to only their friends. The end-to-end encryption part of the app is there for those people as well. What you share is encrypted with post-quantum keys and only the people you share a post with have the keys to decrypt it on their phone. Someone with access to the database cannot see media, captions, comments, display names, profile photos, and album and group names.

The app will never show ads since I believe that that's what drives a lot of the UX decisions on the other platforms.

It's available on both android and ios currently in Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, USA, and Canada, because those had a relatively low barrier to entry, but if there is interest I will add other countries eventually. In particular, EU countries require a legal representative there that it doesn't make sense for me to pay for right now.

I ported iPadOS to my Nintendo Switch

https://twitter.com/brunostjohn/status/2116805960220189013
1•brunostjohn•23s ago•0 comments

It's the world's largest passenger plane. But he fit some of it inside his home

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/31/travel/worlds-largest-plane-partly-inside-his-home
1•mooreds•3m ago•1 comments

Woman put a potato in bowl of Halloween candy and became famous

https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/potato-halloween-candy
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

SCIP Rocks

https://tanikella.ghost.io/scip-rocks/
1•thenonjay•5m ago•0 comments

Bryan Cantrill on Oxide Computer (audio)

https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/oxide/
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Human Exploration Across the Moon

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/29401/interactive/
1•gmays•12m ago•0 comments

Lots of Python Releases for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/cybersecurity-awareness/
1•lumpa•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SecuBuzz – My Stack, filter security news by your vendors

https://secubuzz.com/
2•nisarg-soni•24m ago•0 comments

Facebook Ad Library

https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/
2•gregsadetsky•26m ago•0 comments

OutPost: Micropub Client for iPhone, iPad and Mac

https://jimmitchell.dev/outpost/
2•sea-gold•27m ago•0 comments

Competition in Generative AI: Evidence from Consumer Demand (NBER)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35953
1•imakwana•31m ago•1 comments

Google's Suncatcher data centre satellite sends a haiku to Earth

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/googles-ai-satellite-sends-a-very-expensive-haik...
1•Gaishan•35m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HeyGo - Cabs, freight, and ambulances in a single app

https://heygo.in/
1•sainitishbimari•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Better Together – AI agents team up against spam calls and texts

https://better-together.fun/
2•adamontherun•44m ago•0 comments

America on Data Centers: 10k city council comments

https://www.americansentiment.com/datacenters
3•afandrew•46m ago•1 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
5•misswaterfairy•46m ago•2 comments

Show HN: People you know, an end-to-end encrypted private Instagram replacement

https://peopleyouk.now/
1•jsbg•48m ago•0 comments

How Small Can We Slice an AI Model?

https://operator0x.com/field-notes/weights-still-need-a-home/
2•0xjosephx10•48m ago•0 comments

Egres: A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads

https://manishrjain.com/egres/
1•osser•49m ago•1 comments

Dartmouth Workshop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
1•Betelbuddy•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SleepSignal – App to calm down your nighttime racing thoughts

https://sleepsignal.app/
2•greybox555•51m ago•1 comments

ZMap: Fast network scanner optimized for Internet-wide network surveys

https://zmap.io/
1•epestr•51m ago•0 comments

Martian dust presents additional risks for future crewed missions to Mars

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2620747123
3•gnabgib•55m ago•0 comments

What does Nix see when it reads a shell.nix?

https://www.labcraft.dev/blog/nix-expressions
1•anandsuresh•57m ago•0 comments

Hippos and Whales: Unlikely Cousins

https://www.rom.on.ca/blogs/hippos-and-whales-unlikely-cousins
2•colinprince•59m ago•0 comments

Tubetui – YouTube in the Terminal (Rust)

https://github.com/polblancoo/tubetui
1•polblancoo•1h ago•0 comments

Computer Science Fiction (2010)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/31
2•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

200 Compiler Bugs (2010)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/39
2•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

A New Map of 'Empty' Space Challenges a Tranquil Picture of the Galaxy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-map-of-empty-space-challenges-a-tranquil-picture-of-the-gala...
2•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Dispatch: A local GUI for manually running GitHub Actions workflows

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/dispatch-workflows
1•modinfo•1h ago•0 comments