<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: neodymiumphish</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=neodymiumphish</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:37:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=neodymiumphish" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Former law enforcement officer here. I can say that when we conducted surveillance, we weren't allowed to use equipment that wasn't common for normal people to use. So for example, I couldn't use some sort of long-distance microphone to overhear a conversation between two people in public because a normal person wouldn't have that same type of technology. I think this applies in this context to say that a cop just scanning and logging every single plate that traverses a certain area is outside the bounds of what we'd consider lawful for normal surveillance. Alternatively, if a normal person would just sit down and write down every single car description and plate that passed by their house or any other public area, a cop doing the same thing would be reasonable. The scale of modern data collection for police is whats dangerous to individual privacy rights.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:27:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273929</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is fair, but in my mind, there's still data that's way too accessible for police without proper oversight. What I'd prefer is a system where if the police access it without court approval, they generate a post-access review to confirm that the police did it for a valid reason, such as an emergency. Otherwise, I think any traditional access to that kind of data should have to be via court order.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:24:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273888</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Orion Browser by Kagi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not donation-based.<p>If you have a wallet configured to pay a microtransaction for each day you browse to a certain site (of for x # of page loads, although that could incentivize strange web site behavior to increase the number of pages a reader goes to while they visit), then your wallet pays the small payment when you first browse to the page and you get an ad-free experience.<p>Otherwise, ads or a subscription paywall, depending on how the site wants to manage revenue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978448</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Orion Browser by Kagi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want to pay good sites for their content, but I don't think it's economical to expect a subscription from every semi-regular reader.<p>I'd like for the internet to settle on some sort of micro-transaction system where your browsing history pays out a fraction of a penny each time you browse to a site, so as long as you maintain a balance in your wallet, you can browse the web ad-free across all the sites that support the transaction system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:13:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978410</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>contained-app includes a Files feature to allow in-container filesystem browsing. Is there any plan to implement this in Davit as well?<p>Looks like great work, will try it soon!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824125</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you make justifications for non-military targets like that ("tech firms"), then it just becomes a matter of opinion on where we draw the line. _You_ don't think that extends to hospitals and medical supplies, but _they_ might, and you're moral compass is just as righteous as theirs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351271</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m a Kagi user, but I understood this recent post by the Kagi team to mean that they do not index the web themselves and that it’s nearly impossible for them to do so.<p><a href="https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:39:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130030</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you being sarcastic?<p>Like sure, it is. But when I'm out doing something and she texts me a book title and author, I'd have to make a mental note to take care of it next time I'm free. It also means having a stack of epub files in my phone/tablet/laptop downloads that I've got no use for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122902</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. I’d prefer a native interface and have been working on that. I should change the readme until that’s complete.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116189</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My wife constantly asks me about adding books to her Kindle. I use Anna’s archive for this, but the process can be very annoying. I have to go to the site, search for the content. Filter by epub and English. Then download the content. Then send it to her Kindle email.<p>My openclaw now searches for the relevant content upon her request, sends the URL to a Stacks docker instance, monitors the Stacks instance for when the download completes, grabs the resulting epub from a local file share, then sends it to her kindle email. She doesn’t even send me the request anymore; she sends them straight to the Discord bot.<p>It also corrects our calendar every night. She often just through something on the calendar like “[son’s name] speech”, but we have speech appointments in either of two locations, and I have a strong preference for calendar items in the format “[person] - activity”. If she puts the city name with the speech appointments (“[son’s name] speech [town]”), openclaw reformats the title accordingly and adds the physical address of the speech therapy office we go to in that town. This means Apple Calendar sends us notifications when it’s time to leave, instead of just 30 mins prior.<p>I have a few others as well, but those are real world examples. Maybe they don’t matter for your use case, but they’re good for mine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115947</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed! I built a MacOS Postgres client with just Claude Code[1]. It could use some UI improvements, but it runs much better than other apps I’ve tried (specifically what it’s replacing for me: RazorSQL) and the binary is smaller than 20MB.<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/NeodymiumPhish/Pharos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NeodymiumPhish/Pharos</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:06:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105912</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "OpenClaw is dangerous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, I’m in this camp. My OC instance runs on an old MacBook with no access to my personal accounts, except my “family appointments” calendar and an API key I created for it for a service I self-host. I interact with a Discord bot to chat with it, and it does some things on schedules and other things when asked.<p>It’s a great tool if you can think of things you regularly want someone/thing else to do for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066641</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Ghidra by NSA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Use military members.<p>I was a special agent with an org involved in similar work. They put me through 7 SANS courses, including paying for 5 certs, in 18 months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:47:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039376</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funnily enough, I bought BentoBox a long time ago (Nov 2024), but I forgot about it entirely. I'm wondering if maybe it didn't have Windowed mode at the time, as I do rely a lot of overlapping windows so I can switch between content more quickly when I'm just using my mouse.<p>Thank you for mentioning it again so I could get it set back up. I do like that the experience is almost exactly like FancyZones!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:33:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002509</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve tried many apps for window resizing on Mac, and none feel like they’re nearly as good as FancyZones (the PowerToys module for Windows). I don’t want secret squirrel key combos. I don’t want hot corners.<p>I want two things:<p>- Predefined zones à la FancyZones
- Tied edges (there’s surely a better term for this) so that I can grab the edge between two apps and have them both resize together (one gets smaller as the other gets bigger).<p>Please someone tell me this exists without a subscription!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:38:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997385</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Consent-O-Matic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Undoing whatever data collection and sharing, as well as seeking and obtaining restitution, is probably a much harder problem to solve (for you) if you select accept.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:54:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668246</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Show HN: I built a Postgres GUI in Swift because existing tools felt bloated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks very neat!<p>I’ve been using Razor SQL for a lot of analysis querying over the past ~2 years and I hate how difficult it is to roll back through my queries to find a specific query I ran previously for re-running with slightly different parameters. Excited to experiment with this next week!</p>
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<p>Uh, what? Wanna explain why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:57:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46450866</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46450866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46450866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Stack Exchange's Questions per Month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was just wondering the other day (after a long back and forth with some AI about a technical issue involving PostgreSQL) how AI was impacting this platform. What a massive loss in interactions! Is there anything besides AI that could explain this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349317</link><dc:creator>neodymiumphish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46349317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by neodymiumphish in "Claude in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well the other contractor (ChatGPT) will happily do it for free. From a comparison perspective, his complaint is valid.</p>
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