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Show HN: Auto-greyscale specific apps after time limit reached

https://github.com/flxapps/DetoxDroid
2•aygeaye•11h ago
I've always found Android's Digital Wellbeing controls too blunt. It's all-or-nothing (on purpose?): disable an entire app or greyscale the whole system. This is useless for apps like Reddit or Instagram where I still need to check DMs but want to kill the scrolling trap.

Found an open-source app, DetoxDroid, that solves this. You can set time limits per-app, and it will then greyscale (or disable) only that specific app. It's exactly the granularity I was looking for.

Not my project (I did make a PR today though), but thought others here might find it useful, and think it deserves some more attention!

GitHub: https://github.com/flxapps/DetoxDroid

Amazingly, it works without root, only requires the extra 'WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS' permission (for greyscale) and you can audit it, fork it and build your own version if you're security conscious.

Turn Mac track pad into weighing scale

https://twitter.com/krishrshah/status/1947186835811193330
1•virde•1m ago•0 comments

3-JSON

https://rgbcu.be/blog/3-json/
1•RGBCube•1m ago•0 comments

Cline Feels Like an Upgrade

https://koaning.io/posts/cline-feels-like-an-upgrade/
1•cantdutchthis•2m ago•0 comments

WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version

https://www.theverge.com/news/710509/whatsapp-windows-app-web-wrapper-changes
1•LordAtlas•3m ago•0 comments

Chatbots to robots: The rise of 'physical AI'

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4025052/from-chatbots-to-robots-the-rise-of-physical-ai.html
5•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

Is Elon Musk's 2025 new AI,a gaint unitary matrice

2•Spooky_Fusion•11m ago•1 comments

Southwestern Drought Likely to Continue Through 2100, Research Finds

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072025/southwestern-drought-likely-to-continue-through-2100/
1•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

Why do sharks freeze when flipped upside down?

https://www.livescience.com/animals/sharks/why-do-sharks-freeze-when-flipped-upside-down
1•bookofjoe•14m ago•1 comments

Fearful of AI-generated grant proposals, NIH limits scientists to 6 applications

https://www.science.org/content/article/fearful-ai-generated-grant-proposals-nih-limits-scientists-six-applications-year
2•pseudolus•17m ago•0 comments

Fun with HTTP: website in error space

1•petbrain•18m ago•0 comments

Milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave way for vegan cheese, yogurt

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-real-proteins-cows-bacteria-pave.html
1•pseudolus•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Intercepting proxy for semantic search over visited pages

https://github.com/mlang/llm-embed-proxy
1•lynx97•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Genie: Your AI-Powered Terminal Sidekick (CLI and TUI)

https://github.com/kcaldas/genie
1•kcaldas•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Easy Python Time Parsing

https://github.com/felixnext/python-time-helper
1•felixnext•23m ago•0 comments

US researchers file appeals, seek court remedies, turn to philanthropy, GoFundMe

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02007-w
1•rntn•25m ago•0 comments

Diary of a Startup – the rise and fall of ArsDigita

https://web.archive.org/web/20020212134615/http://www.eveander.com/arsdigita-history
2•rbanffy•27m ago•0 comments

The Power of Bees

https://worldsensorium.com/the-shocking-power-of-bees/
1•dnetesn•28m ago•0 comments

A four day hiking trip into ScreenshotOne infrastructure to solve an issue

https://screenshotone.com/blog/debugging-and-fixing-a-tricky-issue/
1•krasun•28m ago•0 comments

The Inner Lives of Cells

https://nautil.us/the-inner-lives-of-cells-1225210/
1•dnetesn•29m ago•0 comments

Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)

https://www.abubalay.com/blog/2020/01/05/cell-field-projection
2•todsacerdoti•34m ago•0 comments

We benchmarked Cyberpunk 2077 on Mac M1 to M4 – the numbers don't lie

https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/we-benchmarked-cyberpunk-2077-on-mac-heres-how-well-it-runs-on-m1-m4-macs-vs-windows
3•high_na_euv•35m ago•1 comments

As White House talks about impounding NASA funding, Congress takes it seriously

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/a-huge-fight-looms-over-the-nasa-budget-this-fall/
1•xrayarx•35m ago•0 comments

The Tool for Shopee Multi-Site Operations

1•yt1314•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I couldn't find an idea so I created a problem bank

https://gotaprob.com/problem-bank/
2•syel•40m ago•1 comments

Google is using two billion Android phones to detect earthquakes worldwide

https://www.techspot.com/news/108732-google-using-two-billion-android-phones-detect-earthquakes.html
3•thunderbong•42m ago•1 comments

Swift and C++ Interoperability in Practice

https://arturgruchala.com/swift-and-c-interoperability-in-practice/
1•skreep•42m ago•0 comments

MCP-Zero Zeta Playground Symbolic Whitebox AGI Foundation (Offline, Open Source)

https://github.com/GlobalSushrut/mcp-zero
2•Global_Sushrut•43m ago•0 comments

Google "Gecrawlt – zurzeit nicht indexiert": Umfassende Analyse füR IT-Foren

https://administrator.de/report/google-indexierung-it-foren-update-673947.html
2•admonaut•43m ago•2 comments

Science Explains Why People Get More Carsick in EVs

https://www.thedrive.com/news/science-finally-explains-why-people-get-more-carsick-in-evs
2•dabinat•48m ago•0 comments

XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation

https://www.xml.com/articles/2025/07/19/xslt-precision-tool-future-structured-transformation/
1•protomolecool•52m ago•0 comments