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+[2026-07-06 14:02] Show HN: Quiet Sky, a weather app built for privacy

Hi, all.

I wanted to share an app and privacy proxy I made. I'd appreciate your feedback and thoughts.

I've been frustrated for years by the fact that weather apps use our information to track us in real time. I searched high and low for a weather app that promised privacy. I was surprised I couldn't find one. Even apps with good privacy policies make no guarantees about how the provider will use your information. I decided this would be a good time to make an beautiful weather app that delivered on the privacy commitment cleanly.

Many of you probably know weather apps are one of the silent ways your location gets sold. The NY Times did a piece on this a few years ago. Most of the apps take your location for a forecast, then pass your that plus your IP and device ID to either directly to ad networks and data brokers, or to providers who then do the same. There are some good apps and providers, but it is difficult to tell. I wanted a weather app that couldn't leak who you are, and I thought you should be able to check it your self.

I approached this pretty simply. The weather provider should get the forecast question, not your identity.

Every request routes through a small proxy I run (a Cloudflare Worker). It strips your IP address, device ID, and any identifier before anything goes upstream, so the provider gets a coordinate and nothing else. The proxy has to receive your connection to answer it, like any server does, but it doesn't log or forward your IP. The provider only ever sees the proxy's shared IP. There's no account, and there are no tracker SDKs in the app.

The privacy core of the proxy is open source, Apache 2.0, so you can read exactly where identity gets removed: https://github.com/NW-Hiker-Skier/quietsky-privacy-proxy. The provider integrations and API keys aren't in there. I wanted to keep some things private, and some providers don't allow parts of the integration to be exposed.

Full disclosure: I also didn't open source or make the whole app free. There is a cost to run the service, so the app is paid and closed source and only the proxy core is open. I'm a solo developer. Someone has to pay for it, and I'd rather that be users than advertisers.

I'd love for your thoughts about the proxy. Happy to answer anything about how it works, or where the limits are.

Side note. I had fun writing a privacy manifesto for weather too. You can find it under the story on the website. https://getquietsky.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804732

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 [2026-07-04 10:01] Show HN: Psycurate – Curated place for privacy-first, free psychological tools

I’m a psychologist, not a developer. Over the past few months, I used Google AI Studio to build Psycurate.com

Why? The digital mental health space has become exhausting—too many great tools are buried under aggressive monetization, mandatory tracking, and corporate bloat. This website wants to be an accessible alternative.

What Psycurate is about: * Privacy First: A space specifically for tools that respect the person using them. Tools that do not harvest data. * A directory where anyone can discover and use these applications completely free, with no cookies and no corporate agendas and no friction * A platform to showcase tools made by ethical or indie developers that have something to offer to the mental health digital space.

I just finished building the platform, so this is very much a fresh proof-of-concept. The site currently features three apps: two are simple tools I built myself, and one is from an independent creator who decided to submit their work on the platform.

I would be honored to hear your honest feedback and reaction on this.

Thank you for taking a look!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784211

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 [2026-07-04 03:30] Show HN: Local privacy-first Microsoft Recall alternative with Gemma 4

hi author here, Screenmind is privacy first Microsoft recall alternative . It runs on gemma 4 which is one of the fewer models supporting vision audio and reasoning all 3, so your data never leaves you machine.

With screenmind you can keep a track of your timeline , how much time you spent on what..search any screenshot with any text on it.. and the coolest thing, you can chat with your screen history, like what did alex texted me on discord or did i received any mail from Microsoft, if it was on your screen , you can prompt it in the cha. and also you can make automations on top of it, like send me my whole day report on slack(it has integrations )..you can also write automation either though plain English for not so coders or use the python for devs who want to deep dive, and you can save voice memos(with a screenshot) with just a hotkey, and get you meeting transcribed and summarised(auto detects meeting)

the hardest part which i faced was keep running screenmind as a background service it would not have been not hard if chat feature didn't existed, as running local model requires compute ..and keep analyzing screenshots continuously will keep all the resouces hogged up for that i came up with a perceptual has cache .. the three tier cache system reduces inference upto 40% for an average user(which is me)..and to reduce the inference time more i came up with three modes..fast balanced and accurate..where the tradeoff is between time and accuracy

for now i use it daily on my 4gb gtx 1650 with fast mode, works pretty fine also it would be much faster on high end machine , it also has a mcp server so you can just ask claude desktop/cursor about the bug you saw in morning..

supports windows/mac/Linux

being upfront about rough edges , it is not extensively tested on mac and installation has some friction , for which i m working on one click installer thing

(reposting- i put up an earlier version a few months back, comments got flagged cuz of new account so couldn't reply to any )

repo:github.com/ayushh0110/ScreenMind

curious about anyone have idea for how to approach multi monitor support

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782406

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 [2026-07-02 12:01] Show HN: Privacy Magic – a Chrome extension to protect your privacy

Hello HN! For a detailed list of protections provided by Privacy Magic, please see the README (along with the source code) at https://github.com/littletechllc/privacymagic-extension/

You can try the extension on desktop Chrome here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-magic/coboj...

I would be very grateful for feedback! I plan to continuously improve the privacy and usability of Privacy Magic.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760091

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