Smart home devices should work without the internet
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- skittleson
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- Nov 10, 2026
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Smart home devices should work without the internet was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 10, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 8 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #8 of 30, reached on Nov 10, 18:24 UTC. It is #8 right now, climbing from #26 to #8 over the last 6 checks.
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The new rules I have come to use are: - buy the cheapest hardware that gets the job done - ignore negative reviews that are software related - upon receipt of devices, ask claude for local-first cfw - have fun for a few hours acting as a meat proxy - boom, cheap local-only smart home is done Use a SBC or nas for home…
Please please please use your first draft or refine it yourself without LLMs. I managed to get to: The cloud is the weak link - No internet, no problem. ... --- If you are writing for other machines to ingest it, whatever. But if you are writing for people it for me at least signals that you don't really care about…
Author here. This is ten years of home automation rules, led by one: nothing core should depend on a vendor's server. Setup core is Tasmota, MQTT and Node-RED on a Pi. I've given this talk a few times and started working on a third for the agentic era. What's the most pointless internet dependency you've found in a…
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Is Smart home devices should work without the internet trending on Hacker News right now?
Yes. As of Nov 10, 18:24 UTC it is #8, climbing from #26 to #8 over the last 6 checks.
What is the highest rank Smart home devices should work without the internet reached?
#8 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 10, 18:24 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Smart home devices should work without the internet been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 10, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (8 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
18 points and 9 comments; submitted by skittleson on Nov 10, 2026.