frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/
52•mjorgers•1h ago

Comments

astameteo•29m ago
I was using Thunderbird on Android for years and keep using it on Linux, but it aged rather poorly.

Search is completely useless, it never-ever finds anything. Threads are supported, but their functionality is not configurable so whenever I lazily click on the complete thread (instead of opening it, scrolling down to the last item and clicking on it directly) it opens every message of the thread. Really nice functionality for large threads with 60+ emails!

So I am a bit skeptical why on earth they would increase their coverage when the already supported platforms lack decent UX.

vangreen•25m ago
I have similar thoughts. What email client do you use on Android?
jamapy•19m ago
I use FairEmail in Android.
jdoss•16m ago
I have used Aquamail https://www.aqua-mail.com/android since the mid 2009 on my android devices. It's been solid and it is super customizable. I think the only downside is they changed their payment model a while back and if you didn't buy it back then it costs monthly fee or a $99.99 for a lifetime license. I highly recomend it if you do a lot of email on your phone.
pizza234•13m ago
I use it as well, and it's a turd of a program. However, the flipside is that nowadays, with AI, one can build addons very easily, to fill missing functionality.
Dennip•12m ago
Very much agree. I still use it on windows because nothing else seems much better, but there are a lot of things I feel are fairly basic/core features that just don't work right, I often find myself wanting to use the gmail web..

- Search - Threads - Windows integrated notifications/unread badge - Syncing unread counts in folders - Text/Email Editor

atrokhymchuk•27m ago
apparently that is a native iOS application, I wonder whether they tried to use KMP to use same codebase with the android app
crossroadsguy•14m ago
I have seen this. Some devs actually write a pure swift ui app and still manage to make that look like anything but a pure switt ui app. Since the mothership is Mozilla I won't put is past them.
bluescrn•20m ago
But why? What's the USP here?

Maybe there's a demand for a more feature-rich mail client on iOS, perhaps syncing accounts and filters from the desktop app. But this doesn't seem to be that, at least not at this point.

zmk5•17m ago
They have a paid email service now. This is likely for that and for other users who want a thunderbird-based, free e-mail client.
tiberious726•12m ago
It's impossible (other than mutual TLS) to do mfa on the native ios mail app without trusting a third party for one of your factors. Hopefully Thunderbird will support it...
CJefferson•19m ago
It's been 14 years since I reported you can't search for "wedding" in Bugzilla, have they ever fixed it, they hadn't last time I checked:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844

(The bug is they do 'clever matching', so wedding matches weds, and too many emails you weds for wednesday, you can't say 'just show the word I ask you for')

crossroadsguy•10m ago
[delayed]
ChrisArchitect•5m ago
Suggest keeping "A first look" in the title for clarity that this isn't a full release

Title: Thunderbird for iOS: A First Look

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
106•737max•21m ago•74 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
363•etothet•3h ago•448 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
487•formerly_proven•5h ago•277 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
54•mjorgers•1h ago•14 comments

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

https://eg2.haku.sh/
280•amrrs•4h ago•64 comments

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
155•acossta•3h ago•61 comments

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic
39•sammy0910•59m ago•20 comments

New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
109•corvad•3h ago•188 comments

Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

8•ericmags•44m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
126•janpmz•6h ago•62 comments

BB(10) > Graham's Number

https://github.com/jeff87654/busy-beaver/blob/main/BB10/1RB0RA_1LC1LF_1RD0LB_1RA1LE_1LI0LC_0RG1LD...
45•surprisetalk•3h ago•19 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
258•benbreen•10h ago•68 comments

Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They're Out There

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html
11•cainxinth•4h ago•10 comments

A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers

https://photonlines.substack.com/p/a-visual-intro-to-complex-numbers
65•surprisetalk•4h ago•44 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
559•layer8•18h ago•447 comments

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
145•nryoo•8h ago•80 comments

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspici...
354•helsinkiandrew•6h ago•166 comments

Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
317•recvonline•4h ago•148 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
644•ilreb•1d ago•351 comments

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
9•kkukshtel•2h ago•0 comments

The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
368•jsomers•2d ago•111 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
835•Zeekaas•1d ago•942 comments

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
288•hurricanepootis•18h ago•161 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
666•prophittcorey•1d ago•288 comments

The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-...
18•karakoram•1h ago•0 comments

Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev

https://www.unsiloed.ai/blog/document-review-unsiloed-typesafe-jev
38•ritzaco•8h ago•7 comments

A Book That Will Never Be Read

https://forbetterscience.com/2026/09/22/a-book-that-will-never-be-read/
30•jruohonen•2h ago•10 comments

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas
203•khalidkhair•18h ago•74 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
264•speckx•20h ago•125 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
241•pngmangi•19h ago•21 comments