2026-07-18
42 signals reviewed · 1 high-signal · 1 themes
Themes
Privacy-Preserving Smart Home Control
16 ★ new
Users are paying for expensive smart appliances but are forced to disable core "smart" functionality due to invasive terms of service and privacy concerns, creating a gap for a local-first or privacy-respecting control layer.
1 signals · 1 voices · max 16
"Some of my kitchen appliances are LG and I installed the LG ThinQ app on my phone...I decided to kick my appliances out of the network."
smart homeprivacyiotlocal control
All Signals (42)
| Title | Source | ↑ | WTP | Work | Pain | Evidence | Score | Theme |
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| LG ThinQ Terms of Use | hackernews | 51 | 3 | 1 | 3 | Some of my kitchen appliances are LG and I installed the LG ThinQ app on my phone...I decided to kick my appliances out of the network. | 16 | Privacy-Preserving Smart Home Control |
| I was tired of random feeds so I created my personal algorithm | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | I had been saving useful articles, posts, videos, and tools through a browser extension I vibe coded. It automatically organized everything into interests and topics...So I asked claude to create a profile md file...I now use this profile as a filter...Using gpt-5 mini for the classification | 10 | — |
| Ask HN: What percentage do images take up in your computer? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | my computer was always full...despite offloading a lot of images and files to the cloud regularly. | 8 | — |
| I procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating | hackernews | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | instead of developing discipline like a functional adult, I procrastinated by building an entire app to manage the problem for me. | 6 | — |
| Is there any need for low cost LinkedIn followup reminder solution | hackernews | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | does a lightweight tool may be around 10 usd per month , is something people buy rapidly | 5 | — |
| What if restaurant menus had AI copilots? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | I couldn't find a digital menu I liked, so I asked claude code to built my own: Rumizi. | 5 | — |
| AI Gets Trapped in a Circular Loop on Climate Science | hackernews | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | I wanted to push back on the logic of this, because this narrative goes against core principles of scientific transparency. | 5 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Here is the “internal” pattern language I started on “patterns for building software projects with AI” | 5 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | I built a super boring tool, but perhaps it'll be useful to someone. | 5 | — |
| Ask HN: Will Oracle's fall from grace be good for Open Source | hackernews | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | how do we fund Postgres over the next 20 years? | 5 | — |
| Claude Code team should try macro so users can complete 3x as many tasks | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | I tested on other coding agent and providers this can reduce llm turns around by 40% - 80% | 5 | — |
| Ask HN: Claude Creating Artifacts? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 4 | — |
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| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | If I need a software tool these days I don't buy it, I tend to see if I can make it. | 3 | — |
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| Ask HN: Having a child before career has taken off | hackernews | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 3 | — |
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| Ask HN: Are We Getting Dumber? | hackernews | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | — |