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Kit Klarenberg
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Kit Klarenberg writes Global Delinquents, a personal blog at kitklarenberg.substack.com about politics and history. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link his Substack posts on Signal's funding and CIA ties, and a piece on Zelensky, mostly as sources for their own points or in debate about his reporting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.
Most-linked posts?
- Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-12-03
What Hacker News says?
This Signal you trust? https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-... Anyway, while it's possible to activate a Telegram account without a physical phone (using some temporary number services) or using an (relatively) anonymous SIM card 99% of users use it via Android or iOS and that's means there is no need to grab data from Telegram, USA gov. as well as Apple or Alphabet could simply milk them fro…
Comment linking /p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
on “Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn”Submitted Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding as a story · 13 points
HN discussionthey know he used Signal. Not sure you can know what he used it for. https://www.wikihow.com/Know-if-a-Contact-Is-Using-Signal also there are some conspiracy theories that Signal is actually CIA's puppet: https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-...
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on “US agencies warn companies: Don’t delete Slack or Signal chats”Submitted CIA and NSA Created Google – By Kit Klarenberg as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIf you look at the list of his posts, everything is controlled by the CIA: Buzzfeed, Google, and so on. https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/rip-buzzfeed-news-intel...
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on “Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding”Submitted Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSignal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding [0] [0] https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-...
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on “French ministers to ditch WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram over security fears”Submitted Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>I refrained from voting since this is a throwaway. Bizarre logic, but okay. I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, at least. >the American remake does a good job showing how if you truly try to advocate for your district, it often ends with someone decent dying and the evil moving on up This is an extremely cynical worldview not necessarily borne out by history over the long term, and also why I ended up hating the show a…
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on “The Tragedy of Volodymyr Zelensky: Beyond the Ukrainian President’s Finest Hour”Submitted Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding as a story · 3 points
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