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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

162 points · 75 comments · evakhoury

  1. XorNot · · focus · HN ↗
    What's really restoring my agency right now is Claude's APK reverse engineering skills.

    I've been tearing through the apps on my phone and just adding the features I want.

    My biggest problem is I'm going to need actual good home CI and some compute: having these check in on new releases and maybe once a month give me a summary of what we need and build a new copy.

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