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778 points ananddtyagi | 4 comments | 07 Jul 25 00:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.623s | source

1. rlt ◴[07 Jul 25 06:58 UTC] No.44487456[source]▶

The coolest thing about this is apparently it’s written by Jack Dorsey, billionaire founder of Twitter/Square. https://x.com/jack/status/1941989435962212728

Cool to see he still gets his hands dirty in code.

Yeah I noticed this too! The profile picture looked familiar.

3. b33f ◴[07 Jul 25 21:47 UTC] No.44495006[source]▶

It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors

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4. greyface- ◴[07 Jul 25 22:26 UTC] No.44495241[source]▶

The commits, viewed outside of GitHub, have:

  Author: jack <no@no.no>

He used a bogus `user.email` git config value, which GitHub matched to the nothankyou1 account.

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks