Show HN: Orb – Self-hosted AI assistant that messages you first
Orb Backend The backend behind Orb — the AI assistant that talks first, on hardware you own. Get the app · Setup walkthrough · API reference · Every setting The iOS app is the face; this server is everything behind it. The app works out of the box on-device — this server is the optional half that gives it hands, memory, and a machine of its own.
- ▪Orb Backend The backend behind Orb — the AI assistant that talks first, on hardware you own.
- ▪Get the app · Setup walkthrough · API reference · Every setting The iOS app is the face; this server is everything behind it.
- ▪The app works out of the box on-device — this server is the optional half that gives it hands, memory, and a machine of its own.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/getorb/Orb-Backend |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:08:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T20:15:30.607Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T20:15:30.607Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _tC200w6e7To · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Orb Backend The backend behind Orb — the AI assistant that talks first, on hardware you own. Get the app · Setup walkthrough · API reference · Every setting The iOS app is the face; this server is everything behind it. The app works out of the box on-device — this server is the optional half that gives it hands, memory, and a machine of its own. Orb doesn't wait to be asked: the backend watches over your projects, keeps a running model of what's going on, plans ahead, does approved work on its own, and reaches your phone only when it's genuinely worth your attention. What it does Capability What that means Voice server A WebSocket voice loop: speech in (local Whisper), a real conversation out (neural TTS). No wake word on the phone — you just talk.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.