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Recent news about Trump admin officials accidentally leaking war plans via Signal (The Atlantic, March 24, 2025) has renewed concerns over secure messaging. But for me, those concerns aren’t new. While visiting family and friends in Ukraine, I sat down with a friend for coffee at a café in Kyiv and that’s where it all started - the first sketch of a messenger built for privacy, not profit. We knew most messaging platforms were vulnerable to leaking data, tracking users, and exposing private conversations. We believed we could build something better. Then the war in Ukraine began, and…
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2015 · hid.ee
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This is a project I made to learn more about crypto. I've also written a [post](https://vaktibabat.github.io/posts/ecurvechat/) that explains all the crypto concepts and algorithms used in the project, and how I implemented them. I'd be very glad for any feedback about both the code and the post :)
2024 · github.com
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2016 · github.com
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Jun 2026 · v1c.rocks
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Hello HN, I have been working on a desktop P2P messenger called Kiyeovo for the last ~8 months, and I just published its beta version. Quick backstory: It started out as a CLI application for my Graduate Thesis, where I tried to make the most secure and private messenger application possible. Then, I transformed it into a desktop application, gave it "clearnet" support and added a bunch of features. Short summary: The app runs in 2 completely isolated modes: - fast mode: relay/DCUtR -> lower latency, calls support - anonymous mode: Tor message routing -> slower, anonymous These modes…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Hey HN, A long time ago, due to the lack of viable solutions with E2EE and offline-first syncing, I decided to dedicate my time to making one (which has its own story: https://yaad.one/blog/yaad-story). In the course of ~3 years, I developed a knowledge management app with these primary features: - Primitives: Notes, Tasks, Contacts - Grouping with "Boxes" - Offline-first - Multiplatform; currently available for Android, Windows (x64), macOS, and Linux (ARM). - Fully end-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM) - 13 Languages, 8 calendar systems - Light & dark mode Last night, I…
2024 · yaad.one
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I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking. The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get…
2014 · urshoutbox.com
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So, you want to avoid mass surveillance and don't trust big tech companies either? But you're tied to your existing network of contacts like everyone else? Well now you can send encrypted messages to your contacts over the Twitter direct messaging channel. It's a serverless SPA called Seecret, a Twitter client hosted at https://www.seecret.io Seecret is open source and freely distributable. You can host it anywhere even from your own localhost server. The app is just plain html and javascript, with no server-side processing at all, no tracking, no logging. Steps: 1-Grant Seecret.io…
2016
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2015 · hacktunnel.com
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2015 · github.com
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Hi HN, I am a 75-year-old former fishmonger from Japan. Currently, I work at the compensation desk for the Fukushima nuclear disaster (TEPCO). Witnessing deep social divisions and the limitations of bureaucracy firsthand, I realized we need a new way for people to express their will without being "disposable." To address this, I’ve designed the *Virtual Protest Protocol (VPP)*. It’s an OSS framework for large-scale, 2D avatar-based digital demonstrations. I recently shared this with the *Open Technology Fund (OTF)* and received an encouraging "This is great" response. Now, I am looking for…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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A couple of months ago I made a post here announcing the launch of Letters, the first application developed by Ameelio (https://ameelio.org), a non-profit organization committed to making communication free between incarcerated people and their loved ones. Letters allows users to sign up, type a letter to their loved-one in prison/jail and we handle printing, packaging, stamping and shipping through USPS. It's still totally free and unlimited. We've also have went open source. (https://github.com/ameelio) When I made the post on HN…
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Jul 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN, I'm the creator of epress. After a lot of work, I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to finally share it with you. For years, I've been feeling like a digital tenant on the platforms I use every day. My content, my social graph, my online identity—they were all stored on someone else's servers, subject to their rules, algorithms, and business models. I could be de-platformed, my data could be sold, or an API I relied on could suddenly be put behind a paywall. I looked into existing decentralized alternatives. While many are great projects, I found they often shifted the trust from a big…
Sep 2025 · github.com
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2017 · sudo.glitch.me
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