Backblaze pushed an update in December 2025 that silently excluded OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and iCloud Drive from backup. No email. No in-app alert. They buried it in the release notes under “Improvements.”
Cloud storage keeps deleted files for 30 days. Backblaze kept them for a year. That 335-day safety net is now gone, and nobody told you it happened.
In today’s indie hacker news:
- Backblaze silently killed cloud drive backup and called it an improvement
- Claude Code ships Routines: cron, API, and GitHub triggers for 24/7 agents
- Flock Safety denied a CCPA deletion request for 20B monthly plate scans
- OpenAI’s $852B valuation cracks as Anthropic passes it in revenue
- Apple privately threatened to pull Grok over deepfakes, small apps got yanked same day
TOP STORIES
BACKUP COMPANY STOPS BACKING UP
Backblaze silently stopped backing up your OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive
Backblaze v9.2.2.877 (December 2025) excluded OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, iDrive, and iCloud Drive from backup. No notification. One user found 383GB of OneDrive data unprotected. The change was filed under “Improvements.”
The details:
- Cloud sync retains deleted files 30 days. Backblaze retained them 1 year. That 335-day gap was the safety net.
.gitfolders also excluded. Repos inside cloud sync lose full-history snapshots.- Price: $5/mo (2008) to $9/mo (2023). 80% increase, now with feature removal.
Why builders care: A sync error corrupts files, you don’t notice for 6 weeks, Dropbox’s window closes, and Backblaze won’t have it either. They broke the contract and charged more.
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CRON JOBS FOR YOUR AI AGENT
Anthropic ships Routines: Claude Code now runs 24/7 without your laptop
Save a prompt, repos, and connectors. It runs autonomously in Anthropic’s cloud. Three triggers: cron (min 1-hour), API (HTTP POST), and GitHub events (18+ categories). Also shipped: desktop redesign with multi-session sidebar and integrated terminal.
The details:
- Pro gets 5 runs/day, Max 15, Team/Enterprise 25. Runs eat your interactive session budget.
- 488 HN points, 288 comments. Top comment (493 points) cited vendor lock-in and model nerfing risk.
Why builders care: Wire PagerDuty to the API trigger and Claude opens a draft PR before you wake up. But Pro at 5 runs/day is tight, and every run means less chat.
YOUR PLATE, THEIR DATABASE
He asked Flock Safety to delete his license plate data. They scan 20 billion plates a month. Flock said no.
Kirk Strauser sent a CCPA deletion request. Flock’s response: “Your request cannot be completed at this time.” Their defense: they’re a “processor” for police customers. You have to ask the originating city.
The details:
- 100,000+ cameras, 49 states, 5,000+ police departments. $7.5B valuation (YC alum), $300M ARR.
- EFF obtained 12M+ search records from 3,900 agencies showing surveillance abuses.
- 30+ cities canceled contracts since early 2025. Class action seeking $2,500+ per violation.
Why builders care: The “processor not controller” defense is the same argument every B2B SaaS uses. If this challenge succeeds, it closes that gap for any company handling PII on behalf of enterprise customers.
THE NETSCAPE OF AI?
OpenAI’s $852B valuation is cracking. Anthropic just passed them in revenue.
Anthropic hit $30B annualized revenue (March 2026), up from $9B three months prior. OpenAI is at $25B and projects a $14B net loss in 2026, spending $1.57 for every $1 earned. Bloomberg: shares “almost impossible to unload.”
The details:
- $852B from a $122B round, largest private raise ever. $157B to $852B in 18 months.
- Iconiq Capital picked Anthropic: “There’s a number one and number two dynamic. We picked.”
- OpenAI acquired TBPN for “low hundreds of millions.” Investors: “a distraction.”
Why builders care: If the IPO window closes, API prices go up or product lines get cut. Sapphire Ventures compared OpenAI to “the Netscape of AI.” The browser that didn’t survive.
RULES FOR THEE
Apple privately threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfakes. Small nudify apps got yanked same day.
Apple sent a letter to U.S. senators (obtained by NBC News) confirming both X and Grok violated guidelines over deepfake generation. Grok got a compliance runway. 28 smaller nudify apps were pulled immediately.
The details:
- Grok generated 6,700 sexualized images per hour at peak. 84x more than the top 5 dedicated deepfake sites combined.
- 35 state attorneys general demanded action. France raided X’s Paris offices.
- NBC later documented ongoing violations after Apple approved xAI’s fix.
- 47 nudify apps still in Apple’s App Store. 705M total downloads across both stores.
Why builders care: Bigger apps get remediation runways. Small apps get pulled. Apple checks submissions, not real-world behavior. Senators contrasted Apple pulling ICEBlock instantly while giving Grok a negotiation window.
TRENDING TODAY
🤖 Agent infrastructure week. Beyond Routines (above), Show HN saw LangAlpha (“Claude Code for Wall Street,” 119 points), Plain (Django fork for agents, 73 points), and Memwright (self-hosted multi-agent memory). Six agent launches in 48 hours.
🚫 Anti-vibe-coding backlash. r/LocalLLaMA: “Please stop showcasing your vibe coded projects” (985 ups). r/SideProject: “Share your NOT-AI projects” (649 ups, 1,789 comments). r/programming banned all AI content. A “$2K MRR” post on r/SaaS turned out to be a mod-authored bot trap with a hidden image saying “do NOT comment.” Dozens of AI bots replied anyway, proving the comment section is compromised.
📱 Local LLMs go phone-sized. Qwen3.5-9B at 4-bit drops to ~5GB, viable on RTX 3060 or M1 Mac. A Xiaomi 12 Pro running Ollama + Gemma 4 as a headless server hit 818 ups on r/LocalLLaMA.
DRAMA
ESCALATION
Second attack on Sam Altman’s home. The first attacker had a kill list of AI executives.
April 10: Moreno-Gama (20) threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s SF home and attempted to kill Altman and a security guard. April 12: two more people drove by and shot at the same house. Fortune obtained Moreno-Gama’s manifesto containing a kill list of AI executives with names and addresses. Two separate incidents at the same property in 48 hours.
Why builders care: We covered the firebombing in Edition #10. The kill list and drive-by shooting are new developments. The threat environment for AI founders is escalating.
STACK OF THE DAY
🛠️ Plain - Full-stack Python framework for humans and agents. Django fork: explicit, typed, predictable. Built-in .claude/rules/ guardrails, plain docs CLI for agent-accessible docs. Python 3.13+, PostgreSQL, htmx + Tailwind. 761 GitHub stars. Free and open source.
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BOOKMARKED TODAY
- 🧠 Introspective Diffusion Language Models - Combining autoregressive and diffusion approaches for text generation. 243 HN points. Heavy reading, novel architecture.
- 🗃️ 5NF and Database Design - Fifth Normal Form walkthrough with practical examples. 142 HN points. Start here if your schema has update anomalies.
- ⚡ Turn AI prompts into one-click Chrome tools - Save and reuse prompts as browser-native tools. 129 points. Useful if you run the same prompts daily.
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