Hacker News: FireInsight

New comment by FireInsight in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

FireInsight — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:49:42 +0000

DICE is a great experience, but I hate that they have no option to buy tickets without installing and using their app. It should at least be possible from a website, come on...

New comment by FireInsight in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

FireInsight — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:56:44 +0000

Tried self-hosting it and importing passwords. UX was very good, but I had some understandable UI hiccoughs that made me not want to use it. The non-native Android app also felt pretty slow.

Building a custom NAS/homeserver with Fedora CoreOS

FireInsight — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:05:16 +0000

Article URL: https://xyny.art/blog/2026-building-nas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064246

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by FireInsight in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

FireInsight — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:07:54 +0000

Very interesting. With the "virtual folders" feature, doesn't this also compete with Syncthing kind of? I have actually been looking for a solution like Syncthing, where I can write and cache files offline without actually having all the files in the full synced folder on every device (just my NAS). Kind of a hybrid between a remote filesystem mount and full-on folder sync.

New comment by FireInsight in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

FireInsight — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:37:43 +0000

Android Firefox versions that are geat as well - [Ironfox](https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox): Hardened - [Fennec](https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/): Fully FOSS

KDE developer's plans for a QML-based GPU-accelerated video/photo editing suite

FireInsight — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:42:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlgrCqgnk-M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824264

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by FireInsight in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

FireInsight — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:42:37 +0000

Try dragging a youtube video URL onto an MPV window. I believe that should use yt-dlp under the hood. Not that much privacy since they still get your IP and you have to browse for the videos somewhere else as well, but great for minimal ad-free playback. Haven't tried this in a while though, but last time I did it worked perfectly.

New comment by FireInsight in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

FireInsight — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:22:14 +0000

I am genuinely in the "target market" for a tool such as this, but having evaluated one previously I found the quality and self-hosting experience to be pretty bad, and that a proprietary freemium product was still a better experience.

I'm hesitant to even take a look at this project due to the whole "vibe coded in 3 weeks" thing, though. Hearing that says to me that this is not serious or battle-tested and might go unmaintained or such. Do you think these are valid concerns to have?

New comment by FireInsight in "EFF is leaving X"

FireInsight — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:12:53 +0000

> Yeah, somewhere where regular people that aren't terminally online won't ever have the chance to see it.

Honestly the first time I read this I thought you meant to say "will have the chance", because I don't know of any normal people that used Xitter in years. Most are now just on Instagram. Then again, my generation and geographical locatin might have something to do with that.

New comment by FireInsight in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

FireInsight — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:36:00 +0000

Unprofessional photograper, the camera is pretty old but serves me well enough.

New comment by FireInsight in "Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it"

FireInsight — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:29:03 +0000

I don't find Zed much worse for working with webtech either.

New comment by FireInsight in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

FireInsight — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:13:10 +0000

One thing I also care about is the storage space on my phone running out... Also, I haven't found any good RAW editing app on my phone yet, and I am not gonna jump through the hoops of taking the picture to my laptop and editing it there before just sharing some random snapshot of a day with someone.

But yes, I am a photograper and always take raw photos with my DSLR.

New comment by FireInsight in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

FireInsight — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:20:50 +0000

I looked at the brainrotty name[1] and instantly assumed AI slop, but I'm glad the website was upfront about that.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/mog

New comment by FireInsight in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

FireInsight — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:16:06 +0000

What I love in Open Camera is that I am able to turn off all extra post-processing (noise, yes please) and use my phone camera with full manual settings like it was a DSLR (with a really bad sensor). Only problems are clunky UI and general slowness of taking pictures, but you get used to it.

It's really unbeatable from a photographer / artist perspective, especially because I care a lot about imperfect gritty noisy looks and full control.

New comment by FireInsight in "Zed new terms required to be 18 years old"

FireInsight — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:47:07 +0000

Gotta have someone over 18 click the button for you then I guess.

New comment by FireInsight in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

FireInsight — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:57:11 +0000

For me, bottom blocks stay still while those on the very top fall down.

New comment by FireInsight in "Daily Driving GrapheneOS"

FireInsight — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:32:09 +0000

You also get contactless payment on debit cards.

New comment by FireInsight in "No Bookmarks"

FireInsight — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:38:22 +0000

I use Linkding, and there is https://github.com/Fivefold/linkding-injector which does exactly what you described. I don't use it, though. Usually it brings up irrelevant results, and in the rare case that it would have brought up useful ones, the Firefox search bar history-based autocomplete got me there first.

New comment by FireInsight in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

FireInsight — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:56:28 +0000

Unless you own some obscure phone that is not supported by GOS, Calyx or Iode, but is by /e/... Not sure how many of those exist...

New comment by FireInsight in "No Bookmarks"

FireInsight — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:06:18 +0000

Based on the title I thought this was a personal call-out to me and others like me who obsessively bookmark/save links and yet seldom even glance at their collection.