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Show HN: I made a Google Duplex alternative

https://www.altodial.com/?hn
2•eh8•1d ago
Hi HN! I’ve been working on Alto, an AI phone agent that can make phone calls on your behalf — things like handling errands, confirming appointments, or negotiating bills so you don’t have to.

Growing up, I often had to make phone calls for my mom because I spoke "better English." As a result, I’ve probably spent more time on hold with airlines, insurance companies, and small businesses than most people. But most AI calling tools today are built for businesses (sales calls, receptionists, etc.), so I wanted something for consumers — a personal agent you can use like Google Duplex, but with way more flexibility and real-world usefulness.

Many organizations still have frustrating phone systems with long wait times, bad menus, or no online alternatives. And these same businesses will probably refuse to ever change. Alto is meant to give you a way around that, especially when the only option is calling.

Right now it's early, but you can try Alto out for free. I'm working on features like profile memory (so it can remember things like your birthday or frequent flyer number), follow-up call chaining, voice customization, and eventually uploading documents for Alto to reference on calls.

Since this is a soft launch, I would actually prefer if you reach out before you buy a subscription — I want to ensure your intended use case works smoothly.

I would appreciate any ideas or pitfalls you see — thank you!

Prime Path Coverage in the GNU Compiler Collection

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14694
1•matt_d•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Engine – LLM agnostic Codex alternative

https://docs.enginelabs.ai/introduction
1•sdspurrier•4m ago•0 comments

PyCon Keynote: Doctorow on Enshittification and How to Reverse It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw
1•tzmudzin•6m ago•0 comments

ECG Wave-Maven

https://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu/maven/mavenmain.asp
1•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2
1•consumer451•7m ago•0 comments

SunVox is a small, fast and powerful modular synth with pattern-based sequencer

https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
1•Tomte•7m ago•0 comments

The loud hum sparking unrest in MAGA heartlands

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2qg6e03l2o
1•n1b0m•8m ago•0 comments

MV-HEVC with X265 and Nvidia

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/mv-hevc-with-x265-and-nvidia/
1•ingve•8m ago•0 comments

What I learned from my first few months with a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, part 1

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/what-i-learned-from-my-first-few-months-with-a-bambu-lab-a1-3d-printer-part-1/
1•curiousObject•13m ago•0 comments

Boffins Warn That AI Paper Mills Are Swamping Science with Garbage Studies

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/ai_junk_science_papers/
1•jruohonen•14m ago•0 comments

Reinventing the Box

https://tegowerk.eu/posts/box/
1•victorstanciu•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Looking for Marketing Advice

1•saguiitay•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What interesting projects have you build using Claude v4?

1•samsmithy•19m ago•0 comments

Esri's ArcGIS Pro 3.5

https://tech.marksblogg.com/arcgis-pro-35.html
1•marklit•20m ago•0 comments

Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the Potential (Model) Collapse of Science

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deep-research-deep-bullshit-and-the
1•jruohonen•22m ago•0 comments

How the Passionate Male Friendship Died

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/05/men-friendship-history/682815/
1•robinhoodexe•23m ago•0 comments

AMD vs. Nvidia Inference Benchmark: Performance and Cost per Million Tokens

https://semianalysis.com/2025/05/23/amd-vs-nvidia-inference-benchmark-who-wins-performance-cost-per-million-tokens/?access_token=eyJhbGciOiJFUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InNlbWlhbmFseXNpcy5wYXNzcG9ydC5vbmxpbmUiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QifQ.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.XzweCw3UliUiBSq4lzDjvWMLX8V6mESeUGF3YxPWJgz-UUdnjjcM-SOn014Bnr75nDoXTmnsdxwCJaLOUQuc2g
1•mfiguiere•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made an app that creates viral clips from podcasts

https://www.castclip.app
1•revoltai•33m ago•0 comments

Man in Norway wakes to find container ship in garden

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8nk279ydyo
2•vinni2•33m ago•0 comments

Save the web freely – wallabag: a self hostable application for saving web pages

https://wallabag.org/
2•ticoombs•35m ago•1 comments

Mozilla is killing its Pocket and Fakespot services to focus on Firefox

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/mozilla-is-killing-its-pocket-and-fakespot-services-to-focus-on-firefox/
1•XzetaU8•38m ago•1 comments

IBM laid off 8k employees to replace them with AI, but what they didn't

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/22/ibm-laid-off-8000-employees-to-replace-them-with-ai-but-what-they-didnt-expect-was-having-to-rehire-as-many-due-to-ai/
1•travisgriggs•39m ago•0 comments

New study suggests scientists were wrong about dark streaks on Mars

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mars-dark-slope-streaks-study-water/
2•MarcoDewey•41m ago•0 comments

Bluesky will begin verifying 'notable' users

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/bluesky-will-begin-verifying-notable-users/
1•Sourabhsss1•44m ago•0 comments

Event Sourcing Makes LLM Fine-Tuning Easier

https://www.wizardlabs.com/insights/llm-fine-tuning-event-sourcing/
1•cmdshepard•44m ago•0 comments

Matlab Outage

https://status.mathworks.com
1•howisthatposs•45m ago•1 comments

There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Custom Memory Allocator [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11728
1•thunderbong•47m ago•0 comments

Math and the Museum

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/math-and-the-museum/
1•mathgenius•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I know it aint much, but I built what I think is a pretty fun word game

https://playgridagram.com/
1•jonathanleane•48m ago•1 comments

Apple Plans Glasses for 2026 as Part of AI Push, Nixes Watch with Camera

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/apple-plans-glasses-for-2026-as-part-of-ai-push-nixes-watch-with-camera
1•mgh2•52m ago•1 comments