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Ask HN: WhatsApp Alternatives?

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 2:02pm

Hi,

are there any alternative other than using Signal? Is there an OTR Encryption tool that integrates into the keyboard/clipboard on iOS/Android devices?

Even as an early adopter in most tech, including in WhatsApp, I did hope I'd never see the scale of illegal surveillance that is happening today on the entire consumer industry.

I feel nothing but powerlessness over the elimination of privacy.

WhatsApp communication is considered public in court and is credibly being monitored (source: friends at criminal investigation units and https://www.google.com/search?q=whatsapp+communication+monitoring ).

You don't need anything to hide to be criminally investigated. It could just be "dissent" to a government or a corruption case you want to blow the whistle on or any coincidental messages that in the wrong context appear in a different meaning. The state-level eaves-dropping has grown to a perverse level and a precise tool to identify key-persons. Even HN has fingerprinting to identify who said what independent of accounts.

Looking for any choices that are left or ideas on howto keep (team) communications outside of total surveillance.

Do you think privacy and encrypted communication that can't be cracked by the government should be outlawed or considered illegal?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745345

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Healthy Obsession

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 1:53pm
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The new best way to journal online in 2025...

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 1:50pm

Article URL: https://memorylog.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745270

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Ask HN: Who/what is the top-educator/content on how to use ChatGPT/Claude well?

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 1:49pm

It think there’s a huge advantage in being very good at using ChatGPT and Claude, but high-quality, actionable content on this topic seems surprisingly hard to find—at least in my social feeds and here on HN.

Can you share any good writing on this? It seems like many of the features within chatgpt/claude are undocumented + would benefit from better examples.

There are so many features that are really useful when being used in combination: audio mode to collect top-of-mind ideas while going for a walk, prompt deep research to compile report that goes deep on multiple topics including comparison tables, then use reasoning model to compile summary within a canvas, rewrite with a large non-reasoning model to improve the writing style (4.5 sounds way nicer than o3 imo).

Anecdotally, many of my friends want to "encourage the use of AI across their teams". Thus, there's probably even a good financial incentive and market to create actionable monetized courses on this. Social feeds also do not seem to be saturated with this kind of content yet, so probably it is fairly doable to gain distribution when starting out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745267

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Is anybody using this private key?

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 1:44pm
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Ask HN: What is so hard about WiFi Mesh?

Hacker News - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 1:44pm

I've been burned with TP Link's Deco that is advertised as a mesh but sneakily isn't.

Meshforce also sucks more than it works reliably. Needs to reboot every couple of days and drops requests like hot potatoes.

OpenWRT seems like a logical solution, but you apparently need to be an enthusiast to get it to work, reliably, over a prolonged period.

So, question: Why does daisy-chaining requests across adjacent nodes work so well in TCP/IP, but seems to be so hard and fails so miserably when we move it to the physical world? What am I missing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745241

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Is There a Greener Way to Produce Iron?

SlashDot - Sun, 04/20/2025 - 1:09pm
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