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Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 8:43pm
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Show HN: Velo – Open-source, keyboard-first email client in Tauri and Rust

Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 8:34pm

I built Velo because I wanted Superhuman's speed and keyboard workflow without the $30/month price tag or sending all my data through someone else's servers.

Velo is a local-first desktop email client. Your emails live in a local SQLite database - no middleman servers, no cloud sync. It works offline and your data stays on your machine.

What makes it different:

- Keyboard-driven - Superhuman-style shortcuts (j/k navigate, e archive, c compose, /search). You can fly through your inbox without touching the mouse - Built with Tauri v2 + Rust backend - ~15MB binary, low memory usage, instant startup. Not another Electron app - Multi-account - Gmail (API) and IMAP/SMTP (Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail, etc.) - AI features (optional) - Thread summaries, smart replies, natural language inbox search. Bring your own API key (Claude, GPT, or Gemini). Results cached locally - Privacy-first - Remote images blocked by default, phishing link detection, SPF/DKIM/DMARC badges, sandboxed HTML rendering, AES-256-GCM encrypted token storage - Split inbox, snooze, scheduled send, filters, templates, newsletter bundling, quick steps, follow-up reminders, calendar sync

Tech stack: Tauri v2, React 19, TypeScript, SQLite + FTS5 (full-text search), Zustand, TipTap editor. 130 test files.

Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Apache-2.0 licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/avihaymenahem/velo Site: https://velomail.app

I'm a solo developer and would love feedback, especially on UX, features you'd want, or if you run into issues. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or Tauri v2 in general.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096524

Points: 2

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Napkin Math

Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 8:32pm
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Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 8:27pm

Article URL: https://www.june.kim/cord

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096466

Points: 7

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Facebook Is Doing A-Okay

Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 8:25pm

Note: I don't own any equity in Meta, or work there, or have a soft corner for them or their competition in any business category.

There's a way to view just your friends' and groups' updates without seeing all the AI doom scrolling stuff.

They are the largest peer to peer marketplace.

They are the most popular platform for organizing groups.

Apparently Facebook dating is popular (maybe someone can comment on that).

If anything, despite all the dark patterns on the Wall, they are only growing and finding new ways to grow more.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096447

Points: 3

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Show HN: Share Your Ideas with the Community

Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 8:24pm

Article URL: https://novadev.vip/share/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096442

Points: 1

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Show HN: Give your OpenClaw agent a face and voice with LiveKit and LemonSlice

Hacker News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 7:50pm

For a fun side weekend project we gave our own OpenClaw agent called "Mahmut" a face and had a live interview with it. It went surprisingly well.

Here's a sneak peek from the interview: https://x.com/ptservlor/status/2024597444890128767

User speaks, Deepgram transcribes it, OpenClaw Gateway routes it to your agent, ElevenLabs turns the response into speech, and LemonSlice generates a lip synced avatar from the audio. Everything streams over LiveKit in real time.

Latency is about 1 to 2 seconds end to end depending on the LLM. The lip sync from LemonSlice honestly surprised us, it works way better than we expected.

The skill repo has a complete Python example, env setup, troubleshooting guide, and a Next.js frontend guide if you want to build your own web UI for it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096208

Points: 1

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