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Show HN: A capable AI assistant with its own inboxHey all,I'm Stasia, founder of Deck.Deck is an AI teammate for busy operators, professionals, and teams that is constantly working in the background. You can email it, use it in the app, sign it up for services you use, email alerts/newsletters, or set it up to run recurring work. It can read project files, summarize messy context, generate or edit decks/memos/sheets, answer questions over your knowledge base, and proactively surface things that need attention.Importantly, it doesn't require blanket inbox authorization to be effective and only emails you.We made email a first-class interface because delegation already happens there and it's a decades old, hardened protocol. People forward a thread, CC someone, attach files, subscribe it to email alerts and newsletters and ask for help. We believe Deck fits that behavior instead of asking users to move work into another chat app. But the system underneath is shared with the web app: automations, workflows, project search, document editi
How Google makes sure your phones doesn't work without itHello HN,I've been playing around with AOSP alot and one thing i noticed is how much android depends on google even if Android itself doesnt need it. Here's everything i found out:1. Forced Integration of GPS (google play services) - This single handedly causes alot of problem to power users because without it almost nothing works.. Even if you use MicroG there's still some server side verifications that it just cannot help with.2. Sideloading Restrictions - Starting in 2026, Google requires developers to submit government IDs, pay fees, and register signing keys to distribute apps via sideloading, effectively blocking independent software distribution on certified devices.3. Ecosystem dependence. I don't need to explain this one at all i think4. Apps literally won't work. Banking apps and any app that uses play integrity will just refuse to work.What made me the most furious was Google locking down opensource apps with unverified devs. This caused an uproar in the open source communit
Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It AllTwo security researchers bought cheap domains—including noreply.net and deleteduser.com—and set up email listening services. Hundreds of companies are sending them corporate secrets.
Tell HN: Upcoming DeepSeek API Billing AdjustmentJust received this email: Dear DeepSeek API user, We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific pricing plan will be subject to official notice. Please keep an eye on the Open Platform announcements and check your email for further details. If you continue to use our services after the billing adjustment, you will be deemed to have accepted the adjusted billing terms. If you do not agree, you may choose to cancel your service and apply for a refund. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you for your support and understanding! DeepSeek Team Nothing about it on their website yet, as far as I can tell.
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?GitHub seems to be continuing (1) to deprecate star information. First the stargazers list was hidden from logged-out users, and now the main stargazers link on repo pages has disappeared too. /stargazers returns a 404 (2) unless you own the repo.I know many people say stars aren't a real signal, but they were: they made it possible to detect signs of bought stars. Some third-party services even showed the geographic distribution of a repo's stars so you could judge whether they looked fake.The main point is that whatever reasoning GitHub offers, the outcome is the same: either GitHub is weak against bots, or it would rather control these signals itself, with no way for outsiders to audit them.1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488218032. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno/stargazers
UI/UX Designer for AI App Development: User-Centric Design Services Announced - markets.businessinsider.comUI/UX Designer for AI App Development: User-Centric Design Services Announced markets.businessinsider.com
After one of the longest outages in recent memory, Microsoft has fixed Xbox's full services for most users (Updated) - Windows CentralAfter one of the longest outages in recent memory, Microsoft has fixed Xbox's full services for most users (Updated) Windows Central
Ask HN: How do you do marketing in the age of slop?Hi dear hackernewsfolks, vocal contributors and lurkers alike.We (that is to say my business partner and I) are building SaaS products, but we are really struggling to find enough users. This is an age old problem, but I find it has gotten particular bad after LLMs made it trivially to make apps and services. Whether these products end up good or bad is mostly irrelevant, the end effect is the same: the market just seems so heavily saturated with new products, that it's incredibly hard to break through the constant drone of people vying for attention (the irony of me finding a way to do the same isn't lost on me).Even briefly mentioning what we are building in a comment on a "what are you working on" thread yesterday, had my inbox filled with AI outreach from questionable SEO, "How to optimize your product", "let me create a garbage video for you" style e-mails.My conclusion so far are: - e-mail outreach (and particularly cold outreach) really doesn't work, and I never found it quite e
Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DBHi HN,I think it's safe to say that the majority of developers don't give a second thought to writing code with I/O tangled in business logic. It's all too common to see code like: const user = findUser(email); if (!user) await saveUser(user);Now, you may ask: what's the big deal? When we write code like this, two things happen:1. It gets harder to debug production bugs. Unless you have the exact same database and remote API services to connect to, you may fail to reproduce the bug.2. You have to use mocks and fakes in your tests, or use test containers, which only help somewhat, and they are slow!To solve these issues, I built Pure Effect, a tiny TypeScript/JavaScript effect library. The core idea is simple: if a function performs I/O, it isn't pure. But if it returns a description of the I/O it wants to perform, it is. So instead of await findUser(email), you return a Command object that says, "I would like to call this function, and when it finishes, here's what to do next." Your bu
Gemini Outage Mostly Resolved: What Went Wrong for Google’s AIGoogle’s Gemini outage, which prevented people who use Google apps and services from working, should be over now. The company confirmed at 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET on Wednesday that all affected users ...
Authorization via Gmail and Apple ID Banned in RussiaThe Russian State Duma adopted a bill in its second and third readings that introduces administrative fines for violating user authorization rules on local internet resources. The use of foreign services is now strictly restricted. Ixbt.com reports .Under the new requirements, user registration must be carried out exclusively via a Russian phone number, the "Gosuslugi" portal, the Unified Biometric System, or other information systems owned by Russian citizens and companies. Using Gmail, Apple ID, and other foreign email services is considered a violation of the law.Fines for legal entities violating the law have been set at up to 700,000 rubles. Liability is also being introduced for violating rules on the use of recommendation algorithms on internet platforms. Companies may face fines of up to 1.4 million rubles for repeated violations.The document also strengthens penalties for communication operators violating cooperation rules with law enforcement agencies. In such cases, legal en
Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnightTwo days ago I had a working company. $1M ARR, 100k users, a product people actually pay for and depend on. Right now it's dead in the water and I'm locked out of all of it, because Google decided to suspend my entire account.Someone got hold of one of my API keys and ran up charges on Google's AI services that I never touched. $4,200 hit my card for usage that wasn't mine. Fine, happens I paid the bill. But Google suspended my whole project. Everything lived in there. The backend, and every single customer photo, over a million of them.So now my users open the app and nothing loads. I can't fix it because I can't even get into the console anymore, they took that away too.I've spent two days appealing, paying for support just to reach a real human, getting "escalated," and mostly sitting in an automated queue while my business bleeds. No real answer. No timeline. Nothing.I trusted Google Cloud to hold my customers' data and run my company. Two days of downtime over a charge I didn't ma
Some Business IdeasInfrastructure side:1. A service connector that can be attached to any AI Assistant to authenticate users and connect services easily, similar to MCP but more universal. 2. CDN service connectors that can store assets and retrieve them very fast from anywhere in the world. 3. Database-as-a-service connectors that are highly available and very simple to connect or disconnect from any provider without managing infrastructure. 4. Object storage service connectors that can be attached to personal assistants or AI agents, highly scalable and available, with flexible models like pay-per-use or pay-per-storage. 5. Vector DB service connectors for storing RAG data, designed to be highly available and distributed close to clients for low latency and fast AI responses.You can use AWS or other cloud providers behind these services, but in the future people will not want to manage infrastructure directly. They will need services that are easy to connect and disconnect, simple to scale, and fully A
Show HN: Chrome extension for Gmail/Workspace users to alias emails at signupBuilt it for myself, thought someone else might want it too.Simple one-click Chrome extension that aliases your email at every signup, so when spam shows up you know exactly which site leaked it.Click the icon on any signup page: netflix.com → you+netflix.com@gmail.com amazon.com → you+amazon.com@gmail.com Plus addressing works on Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook, ProtonMail, Fastmail and others. Handy at companies running Workspace.Workspace users with a custom domain can also use catch-all mode: ted.com → ted.com@firstlast.com wikipedia.org → wikipedia.org@firstlast.com Different from forwarding services like SimpleLogin, Firefox Relay, or Apple Hide My Email: nothing sits in the mail path. The extension just generates the alias, your existing provider handles delivery. If Apple ever discontinues Hide My Email, every alias you made with it stops working. Clean-Autofill has no service to shut down. No accounts, no servers, no analytics. All local. Open source.Details and Screenshots:h
Yelp updates its AI chatbot to help users sift local recommendations, book services - NBC Bay AreaYelp updates its AI chatbot to help users sift local recommendations, book services NBC Bay Area
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