Hacker News: writtenone

New comment by writtenone in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

writtenone — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:13:47 +0000

Absolutely! Meetings about the emails and emails about the meetings!

New comment by writtenone in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

writtenone — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:12:50 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if humans cracked it then OpenAI "bought" the solution and work to claim it was GPT's doing

New comment by writtenone in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

writtenone — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:40:14 +0000

A friend in China built a Flock overlay network that sends live video and audio from ~100 cameras near me to an AWS server for processing and search.

New comment by writtenone in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

writtenone — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:58:37 +0000

This is proprietary. Yuck

New comment by writtenone in "Cops Search Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' and 'Asdfg'"

writtenone — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:29:35 +0000

no email wall: https://nonograph.com/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cameras...

New comment by writtenone in "Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service"

writtenone — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:21:00 +0000

Fwiw, the FBI use Signal regularly, and it's approved for some specific use cases. Don't ask how I know ;)

There are ways to ascertain how and when a person is using their device by analyzing Signal's metadata, then build a predictive model based on months of daily usage to infer when they're most likely about to pick up their phone.

Delta Chat is years behind Signal's protections, and its claims of "zero metadata" are straight up lies. SimpleX has at least four remote execution zero days that I'm aware of, all relating to media processing. I told Evgeny to make the blur effect actually hash the image instead of acting like an overlay, but I was repeatedly ignored before being set as an "observer" role in the SimpleX Public Group.

New comment by writtenone in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"

writtenone — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:37:54 +0000

Look into SimpleX Chat. It's like Telegram but with trustworthy encryption that's always-on, multiple profiles, and the servers are interchangeable so if one or two go down you can just switch them out.

Evgeny is a venture capitalist (ew) but the product is solid and they've published two TrailOfBits audits with a third completed and awaiting publication by TOB

New comment by writtenone in "How much of HN is AI?"

writtenone — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:17:16 +0000

Having used Matrix for almost a decade, it's hot garbage.

Sync is barely working, "unable to decrypt" still exists, the encryption is flawed [0] and the whole thing is effectively just Element and everyone else follows their lead.

[0]: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matri...

New comment by writtenone in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

writtenone — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:07:24 +0000

Now if only it would come with Linux instead of MacOS!

Apple's software holds the hardware back, and it's ugly (especially liquid glass!)

New comment by writtenone in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"

writtenone — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:56:11 +0000

Thanks! Any good Android clients? "Conversations" seems to be the best and it's nowhere near the polish of Signal & Co. crashes often, UX is clunky, family will never stick with it.

New comment by writtenone in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"

writtenone — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:51:13 +0000

Are there any XMPP clients with the UX and privacy of Signal?

All of them seem to look like they're from the 00s!

New comment by writtenone in "Devtools must be open source"

writtenone — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:54:35 +0000

exe.dev is NOT open source. Funny

New comment by writtenone in "Toot.community is shutting down"

writtenone — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:40:31 +0000

I feel like if you can ignore the bitcoin-bros, Nostr is a better, more lightweight design that doesn't suffer from centralized (localized) shutdowns.

New comment by writtenone in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

writtenone — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:07:28 +0000

From 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."