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• Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2026

  And yet, I'm using Molly, an independent Android fork of Signal.

  Signal itself is released on AGPL-3.0: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android so this is probably why Molly forked.

  So not sure what are you talking about.

• The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2026

  Signal's requirement for phone numbers has allowed it to surge in popularity by allowing it to take advantage of people's already established contacts. They do this in a privacy respecting way[1].

  Simultaneously, Signal is trying to raise the cost of accounts by requiring phone numbers. Although spammers can get mass amounts of phone numbers, it will at least raise the cost. Email 0 cents, phone # 10 cents–there will be less spammers with phone #s.

  I don't think we'd have to worry about the spam if people only used usernames instead of phone numbers, because it would be massively harder for spammers to find your account and message you. But, with usernames, you don't get the contact discovery that allows for growth.

  [1] https://signal.org:8443/blog/private-contact-discovery/

• Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2026

  With reproducible builds like Signal does you can be sure the app you've downloaded matches the source code that's been audited:

  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

• Session is shutting down in 90 days
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2026

  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247

  Greyson:

  > Hi there, sorry, this issue was fixed in 5.17 (which hit 100% production on 7/21)

  They had a difficult to reproduce problem reported in late December 2020, and got the fix rolled out seven months later.

  Not sure your criticism "absolutely inexcusable slop code" is well considered.

• The PGP Problem (2019)
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2026
• What Happens When You Kill the Kotlin Daemon Before R8?
  5 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2025

  Signal Android app: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

• TextSecure VS ContactDiscoveryService - a user suggested alternative
  2 projects | 30 Nov 2025
• Molly: An Improved Signal App
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Nov 2025

  You'll need to trawl through the actual commits it appears: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/main/

• How to make your online life private
  3 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2025
• Signal Secure Backups
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2025

  Hi! I don't know if we'll have anything super official, but the code is obviously all open source, and the backup file is just a stream of protobufs[1], so it shouldn't be too bad to make a tool. I know have some rough CLI tools sitting around -- I'll see if there's anything we want to clean up and release publicly when the local backup portion of this launches.

  Also, as someone else noted, the format is indeed incremental. So while we'll still do the thing where we keep the last two backups on disk, because those two backups will share almost all the same media files, the size on disk will be much much smaller. As someone with a 50 GB backup file, this was very much a goal for me :)

  [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/app/sr...

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