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  1. Ask HN: What's your opinion on the Swisscows search engine?

    I have been a happy user of Kagi for years, and I was looking into supporting an alternative for a while. So I went for Qwant (based in France), which is nice, but I miss some of Kagi's features like being able to pay…

    2 points 1
  2. US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates (thedefensenews.com)
    155 points 18
  3. Ask HN: Why aren't Android manufacturers interested in GrapheneOS?

    It probably sounds naive, but I have been following GrapheneOS for a few years, and it seems like adoption is growing at a fair speed. They currently estimate [1] that they have more than 300k users. I know it's not a…

    7 points 3
  4. Our progress on CalyxOS after the release of Android 16 (calyxos.org)
    4 points 1
  5. Could Starlink terminals be used with Eutelsat?

    I was reading that Ukraine has ~40 000 Starlink terminals, and switching to Eutelsat would take some time because of the availability of Eutelsat terminals. I was wondering: would it theoretically be possible to flash a…

    2 points 1
  6. Ask HN: Why aren't governments using Signal with proxies?

    I have been wondering this for a while, but given the current geopolitical situation, it feels even more relevant than before. Governments (and companies, actually) should not trust servers controlled by other…

    1 points 7
  7. Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally (theguardian.com)
    267 points 144
  8. Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK (theguardian.com)
    4 points 1
  9. Ask HN: How can I meaningfully object to WhatsApp processing of my information?

    Following some EU requirements (GDPR), WhatsApp updated their TOS. They say that we can now "object to [their] use of [our] information": https://faq.whatsapp.com/781249240131848/. When following the form, I receive an…

    26 points 56
  10. Ask HN: What is the point of smartphone wireless chargers?

    I get that manufacturers are happy to sell more crap, and consumers are happy to buy new shiny crap. And wireless chargers are more expensive than wires, so that's an incentive for the manufacturer. But technically, is…

    2 points 8
  11. Ask HN: How would software look if hardware had stopped improving long ago?

    Progress in hardware allows software to build computationally costly abstractions to make devs more productive (for better or worse). While some use-cases definitely required improvements (e.g. deep learning became a…

    45 points 50
  12. Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency (2018) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
    3 points 1
  13. Handling Dependencies with CMake (acarg.ch)
    2 points 0