MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Cloudlvl – Build cloud infra using natural language
by mavdol04 | 2025-07-29 13:32:36+00:00
I built a tool that lets you deploy and manage your AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure using natural language.

Cloud consoles are time-consuming, and traditional IaC tools aren’t always ideal for quick iterations or rollbacks

So I made Cloudlvl: you describe what you need, review the AI suggestions, and deploy. Each deployment creates a new version, so you can roll back anytime. It works by indexing resources by context (env, region, etc.) and maintaining real-time state sync.

It currently works with AWS only, but there's a short demo video on the website.

Curious to hear your thoughts!
by pmontra | 2025-07-29 13:32:45+00:00
Yes, and I remember the years around 1990 when teams with tall men with a lot of stamina and not much else were giving headaches to top teams with top players. But soccer is also a team sport and there are dynamics that go beyond fitness. The morale of a team has a lot of impact. There have been many cases when the same players started playing well suddenly after a change of the manager. Looking at normal workplaces: fire the boss that hates everybody and everybody hate back, put somebody not abusive or toxic in charge, the workers will start performing better.
by rzwitserloot | 2025-07-29 13:32:57+00:00
That does have the slight disadvantage that a glassed parking lot, utterly uniform and totally devoid of all life, is quite stable.

I agree that it'd be lovely to have a definition that is devoid of subjective (human) judgement, but I don't think "stable" is a useful direction to go for such a definition. It's way too easy to reach stability by ending up at some hellhole ecosystem that is lifeless or exceedingly uniform with nothing interesting. Which, yes, is entirely subjective. That's my point.

Alternative ways to go that seem more suitable to end up at a worthwhile definition that most ought to be happy with:

* Diversity. An ecosystem with more lifeforms is better than less, and complex lifeforms count extra. How much extra is for somebody to write down in detail at some point.

* Utility to humans. An ecological system that constantly causes issues to humans, for example by flooding out a town, spawning plagues that ruin crops, and so on is 'bad'. An ecosystem that humans like spending time in is 'good'.

We are humans and ought to be able to come together and find definitions close enough to what we want without falling into smashing each other's heads in because our definitions of 'nice to walk through' differ slightly. Part of what annoys me about 'modern' political thought is that it presupposes: Everybody hates everybody and we're all infantile morons who are utterly incapable of finding any common ground (and thus only solutions that work despite that state of affairs are worthwhile to think about). This isn't hard to determine. We don't need to eliminate human subjectivity from it.
by belorn | 2025-07-29 13:33:04+00:00
Law often focus on intent. I am not sure if identity fraud can be applied if the person are not gaining anything (assuming they are of the right age). Service providers might be of fault if their verification practices are not compliant with regulations, but I don't know if the law puts any requirements on users to verify their identity.

To me this seems more similar to a people participating in a masquerade or comedian who dress themselves in the likeness of a politician. They are using the identity of the politician, but not in the way that identity fraud is intended to prevent.

Domain registration is an interesting example. To my knowledge, falsifying domain registration data is not a crime. Domain registrars have regulations to verify the identity of customers, including the recourse to suspend a domain if the data is incorrect. I could see a case if a person impersonate a politician in order to falsely attribute content of a website, under a registered domain name, as belonging/sanctioned by that politician, but that would likely fall under defamation laws. The crime could also be identity fraud, but the intent would be defamation.
by morkalork | 2025-07-29 13:33:19+00:00
Feels spot on. Take all the wildfires and their smoke. Every year it's worse than before but people have normalized it. It's just part of the weather forecast now, many will avoid outside activities, some ignore it and carry on as if it weren't there, others will sport an N95 mask. People have seemingly accepted it – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation
by constantcrying | 2025-07-29 13:33:58+00:00
There is a fundamental theorem of numerical analysis, due to Kahan, that certain, very desirable properties of modeling the real numbers on a computer are incompatible.

Again and again people try to "fix" IEEE floating points without realizing that they are trying to do something akin to creating free energy. Whenever you start out with a project like this you have to start by asking yourself what desirable property you are willing to let go of. Not presenting that flaw makes the whole thing look either dishonest or uninformed.

>Any real number x can be represented as

This statement is just false. I do not know why you would start out by making such a basic error. The real numbers are uncountable you can not represent all real numbers by a pair of integers. This is basic real analysis

>The mathematics is elementary. The impact is revolutionary.

???

>Special thanks to everyone who said "that's just how it works" - you motivated me to prove otherwise.

Maybe the people know better than you? It is after all a mathematical theorem.
by miek | 2025-07-29 13:33:59+00:00
I can't help but wonder if I'm being trolled. This app does not hook kids with garbage, visuals, sound effects, or basic button mashing. The author is also against ads, social sharing (due to child safety), and children being able to spend money in the app.

You say "that second use case is vastly more common", however the author is very clearly aimed at the first use case. Yet you are arguing that they fall into the second.
by throwanem | 2025-07-29 13:33:59+00:00
I don't like the EasyFlow 9000 very well, because even on Clairefontaine paper it doesn't live up to its name. I have one in an Ohto Rays for the retro vibe, but it's the pen I keep in my bag to have something nice I won't mind giving away. Even compared to Ohto's stock gel refill, the EasyFlow just writes lousy.

Try moving one nib size up with the Vanishing Point, especially if you're used to Western pens. Pilot's EF is sharp enough to draw blood and you'll never really break it in; the F starts out a little rough but wears in nicely. Too, the Vanishing Point itself I found a little big and heavy for real comfort, both in the hand and in a shirt pocket. The Decimo is mechanically identical but smaller and lighter, enough so that it's my go-to pen for almost every purpose, even sitting alongside a Parker 51 Deluxe.
by vgo96 | 2025-07-29 13:34:08+00:00
The author says that every real number x can be represented as

x = m * 2^p

where m is an integer(mantissa) and p is an integer (point position)

Well this is clearly wrong, take x = 1/3 for example

1/3 = m * 2^p

m = 1 / (3 * 2^p), where m is an integer, doesn't hold true for any integer p.

If the author had read first 2 pages of

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...

they could have avoided the embarrassment.
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-29 13:34:12+00:00
The Go playground actually has a dropdown menu with 15 examples, of which "Hello World" is merely the first; together they do a decent job of demonstrating the language's core features.

The Rust playground defaults to "Hello World" but that's just because there has to be something there, it's not on the home page of the website or anything (though it used to be).
Show HN: Same prompt tested across Replit, Bolt, v0, Lovable and Raq.com
by hawke | 2025-07-29 13:34:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Raq.com – a platform that uses Claude Code to build working internal tools directly in the browser.

Claude Code is great at self correcting when given the right tools.

I've found that the popular web-based AI coding tools look great in demos but fail on real API integrations or require a lot of error back and forth. They don't appear to do much research or self-correcting, likely to reduce spend. I wanted to see the current state of these tools, so I ran the same prompt on five platforms (Replit, Bolt, v0, Lovable, and Raq.com) to build a tool that requires 3 different APIs (Companies House, FinUK and OpenRouter) working together.

Four platforms produced broken prototypes or needed manual fixes. Raq.com delivered a complete working solution from a single prompt (that can be deployed to live with one click).

Full test with videos: https://raq.com/real-world-test

We're in early access (requires Claude Pro/Max for free usage) - we're looking non-coders who would like to build internal tools for their team.

Some technical info:

- Raq.com provisions isolated dev and prod Docker environments for each company (companyname.raq.com and companyname-dev.raq.com).

- The dev site includes a persistent terminal streamed to the browser, so the session continues even while tab is closed.

- CLAUDE.md file provides best practices, known pitfalls, and coding patterns for the Laravel + Filament stack.

- Self-Correction Loop: Claude can test and debug its own work. It has direct shell access to a custom script that bundles PHPUnit, syntax checks, and cache clearing. Plus a Playwright wrapper to check for errors and take screenshots.

- A single click runs a script that rsync's the dev workspace to the prod container, runs migrations, and clears caches.
by BigJ1211 | 2025-07-29 13:34:52+00:00
Israel definitely wants the West Bank (and the Golan Heights), it didn't demonstrate the same interest in Gaza. Which isn't that strange considering there's very little value in the land itself.

They were content with the Palestinians keeping to themselves in that corner of the land. At least that's what it looked like between 2005 and 2023. That isn't to say they had no designs on it further in the future, they might have had plans to annex it after fully claiming the West Bank. (Or at least certain groups within Israel)
by KomoD | 2025-07-29 13:35:04+00:00
> I wouldn't say they’re “obviously” AI fakes.

I'd say they're obviously AI fakes, just trying a few: B249AL (it made her bald), SA487AB (different shape, hair color and hair), TN248DF (it grew his hair back), HA26ND (bald, again) and NG166QE (I don't even need to explain)...
by metalman | 2025-07-29 13:35:25+00:00
from "anti captcha" it looks like they are doing as many as 1000/sec solves, 60k min, 3.6 million an hour it would be very interesting to see exactly how this is bieng done?....individuals....teams....semi automation, custom tech?, what? are they solving for crims? or fed up people? obviously the whole shit show is going to unravel at some point, and as the crims and people providing workarounds are highly motivated, with a public seathing in frustration, whatever comes next, will burn faster
by ilaksh | 2025-07-29 13:35:28+00:00
I had a boss who was bought into .NET to the point where he thought maybe the future was Silverlight (instead of JavaScript, which had obviously "won" at that point) and he wanted me to make Silverlight have the features that the desktop framework had at the time. Which I told him immediately that seemed impossible, but since he was so sure about it I would be happy to try (I had just been given a contract there). So I was decompiling .NET framework or WPF libraries or something (don't remember) and trying to get them to compile in Silverlight. I don't remember how long I spent on that task. Possibly over a week.

I had another job last year where they kept asking me to fine tune an LLM to answer questions about text, but I was only allowed to feed in the raw text of a single document but not generate an actual Q&A dataset. I kept telling them that was not how it worked but they kept insisting I continue for weeks. I think in his mind he just thought I was just doing it wrong over and over and he was secretly training me by paying me to practice or something.

I guess it's kind of sad how many jobs I've had that were a waste of time. I'm weirdly used to it so looking back it doesn't bother me that much somehow.

It does irritate me in the moment though. I have a client now that wants to make an agent system for a certain platform. The previous day we had just been discussing MCP servers and what they do. But the next day he seemed to think that each MCP server was going to have an entire full custom UI and agent loop in it per agent instead of just providing tool commands. So MCP server became an agent. I think I explained how it normally worked and he seemed to maybe get it, but then I was trying to ask how we were going to allow people to use all of the existing MCP servers in their agents so they could combine them and the non-response made it seem like he thought that might not be important. Did not get an answer so far. I remain ever hopeful for our upcoming meeting though.

Is this a sign of old age? Answers to something specific just become rambling walks down memory lane? It's interesting how it seems that I am generally well adjusted to how futile my life has been.

Anyway, I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Silverlight sent me down this tangent.
by Goronmon | 2025-07-29 13:35:38+00:00
I understand this could be abused, but it's up to us to make sure it isn't

Exactly, by protesting and fighting laws like this.

What exactly do you want people to "make sure of" with the law in place? If someone is concerned about this law, what specific action should they be taking in the name of "diligence"?
by _1tem | 2025-07-29 13:35:49+00:00
Chase just ships broken APIs. I work with Chase APIs every day through Plaid and Akoya. There are a whole list of ongoing known issues, from duplicates, to missing transactions. JPMorgan doesn’t know how to or doesn’t want to ship a proper API.

It is not difficult at all to serve 2 billion requests a month for transaction data. A single server could handle that.

This is obviously a PR play to cut out middlemen. Related accusation: https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/exclusive-jpmorgan-h...
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-29 13:35:58+00:00
> You can't take things to the Tour De France level and recover from those workouts without drugs.

You absolutely can. However, you will almost certainly be impacted as the days progress, and this doesn't work well for the largest spectator single sport event in the world.

Also, watts per kilo is irrelevant in pack cycling and flat time trials. It only matters on when climbing.
by cscheid | 2025-07-29 13:36:10+00:00
I’m dismayed that people are willing to put their names on garbage like this.

If you want the serious version of the idea instead of the LLM diarrhea, just go Jonathan Shewchuk’s robust predicates work: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/papers/robustr.pdf from 1997.
by Quarrel | 2025-07-29 13:36:16+00:00
I'm not sure what you're basing that on?

Have the court filings become available?

Of course, the random PR in the OP isn't going to go through their barrister's arguments.

While I agree that the main thrust of the legislation won't be affected either way, the regulatory framework really matters for this sort of thing.

Plus, win or lose, this will shine a light on some the stupidity of the legislation. Lots of random Wikipedia articles would offend the puritans.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-07-29 13:36:26+00:00
Was this meant to be a reply to the top-level story, and not a specific comment?

It seems really bizarre to respond to “there should be easily-accessible examples of code that demonstrate the language’s key features on the website” with “there’s a $200 conference in South Carolina where there will be a talk on it.” Honestly, it comes across as not just bizarre, but somewhat disrespectful (though I’m sure that was not your intention).
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-29 13:36:31+00:00
It is heart-stoppingly sad how a people is getting wiped out, slowly and meticulously, and the world just says, please let us show restraint.

It is a complex ethnic conflict no doubt, I am not saying it isn't. But actually the settlers in the West Bank part is kinda simpler. These people are hounded away by militias backed by their state, by guns, bulldozers and settlements. Meanwhile, Israeli human rights organisations have just called their government's actions as undeniably genocidal.

I wish peace to all civilians living in that part of the world, but it feels so far away.
by sargstuff | 2025-07-29 13:36:54+00:00
> ... behaves differently on this computer...

vs. in linux, running powershell scripts under a virtualized instance of windows to avoid linux OS / windows OS differences issues?

----

other extreme end of the 'whitespace' spectrum:

APL : no white space / single character instead of multicharacter programming language tokens. Maximum expressiveness without any need for whitespace!
by JohnFen | 2025-07-29 13:37:13+00:00
> What exactly is the alternative to capitalism?

First, I should state up front, I am not remotely anticapitalist. Quite the opposite. However, as practiced in the US right now, capitalism has become a cancer that is distorting and consuming everything and replacing it with the profit motive. We are all poorer for it in many ways, and growing more so. I even think it's become a serious threat to our freedom and liberty.

I think any pure "-ism" is an undesirable thing. Every approach has a degenerate condition that it will trend toward if there isn't a countervailing force. The alternative to capitalism is to mix in the strengths of the other "-isms" and to stop treating capitalism like a religion.
by rlupi | 2025-07-29 13:37:32+00:00
Do we really need notifications to tell us that our heart is pounding harder?

I am seriously fed up with my phone bugging me to tell me what I already know because I sense it.

The better use for this technology is if we could get trends and correlations with other things they already collect. E.g. pick up a different commute because the usual one gives me too much stress due to traffic jams, and today I am already on the edge.
by tummler | 2025-07-29 13:37:42+00:00
Anytype recently made a significant change to the way certain types of information are categorized and related-- which resulted in the "What's New" note you saw. That's just unfortunate timing on your part and was a one-off change that's long been in the works. Not a regular occurrence.

I will say Anytype (and the like) can come off daunting at first, depending on your specific use case. Especially if you're just using it for notes/info/etc, I would recommend not getting too lost in examples and templates. Just make something simple for your purposes using the built-in types. (The "notes" type should suffice for you.)

Then as it evolves over time, you can expand and elaborate as needed. But trying to dive straight into the deep end and create some overarching master system right off the bat will definitely leave you feeling overwhelmed and questioning whether it's worth it.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-29 13:37:44+00:00
Within the context of your Pony program you'll never be deadlocked. The virtual machine you implement capable of universal compute, and not enforcing this constraint, can be internally deadlocked, but this doesn't prevent your other Pony code from progressing necessarily - the deadlock is an internal state for that virtual machine, formally guaranteed to be confined to it.

I'd be hesitant to call this a "Pony runtime" property - to my understanding language runtimes just provide application bootstrapping and execution time standard library access. Pony code becomes machine code, managed by the OS as a process with some threads. This language property guarantees you that those threads will never "actually", "truly" deadlock. Code implemented on the Pony level can still progress if it chooses to do so, and Pony formally ensures it always has the option to choose so.

If your business requirements necessitate otherwise, that's a different matter, something you introduce and manage on your own.
by szajbus | 2025-07-29 13:38:00+00:00
Well, distribution is the killer feature. More, it's inherent property of the platform (web).

Web devs are in full control of their whole stack (excluding the browser where you occasionally need to account for incompatibilities), have to maintain only one version of the app (no upgrade needed on client-side), are not constrained by the platform owner's policies (app store tax).

Yes, it's more limited than native technologies in other ways, so it's not an answer for every problem.
by Ensorceled | 2025-07-29 13:38:07+00:00
It's up to the people who WANT age verification to ensure that it can't be abused rather than up to US to prevent it from being abused after the fact.

Invoking the "slippery slope" fallacy when the country with the greatest military in the world is abusing public records to grab people off the street and out of court rooms is an interesting choice.
by oliwarner | 2025-07-29 13:38:23+00:00
Regulatory capture can be such a loaded term but this finding was about safety compliance.

Your tiny-batch stickers reflect of local wage levels more than EU regulation. VAT will be part of it too.

But on safety compliance, the electrical crap that Temu (et al) rain on our countries is a fire hazard. It shouldn't be controversial that goods that don't meet EU standards be barred.

When sales are direct B2C, the EU can't retroactively (or prospectively) stop them, nor recall sent units, not in the way they can when a container rocks up with tens of thousands of units that turn out to be dodgy.

I don't know what the answer is. Making Temu (et al) liable for goods' compliance —in the way importers are— seems like a sensible start.
by oliveroll | 2025-07-29 13:38:29+00:00
(We'd love your feedback—does this solve a real pain point for e-commerce sellers?)

We’re building a tool for every e-commerce founder, reseller, and social media marketer who's tired of manually adding price tags in Canva or Photoshop.

Upload any product photo AI auto-detects the item and positions the tag perfectly Choose from over 10+ styles — luxury, vintage, modern, sale 50+ images done in under 2 minutes One-click download — save hours per week

No design experience needed. Just clean, branded price tags ready to post.

We’re in development now. Try it for free: www.pricetaggenerator.com Drop your email to get early access

We're curious: Would you use this? What price tag style would YOU want for your brand? Comment below or message me—we’re shaping this for real e-commerce needs!
by gosub100 | 2025-07-29 13:38:47+00:00
People like to make themselves sound smart and important by finding the most trivial and low effort ways to discount and invalidate your point, instead of expending effort to respond to a more substantial argument that I could easily read from what you wrote. It's just the nature of online forums I think. It's easy (but incorrect) to conclude this place is full of jerks, because sometimes jerks are more likely to respond at all, and you don't get a baseline of how many people read your message but didn't reply at all.
by cogogo | 2025-07-29 13:39:40+00:00
I think the format plays a huge factor too but for different reasons. This format of racing is very dependent on aerodynamic advantages - to the point that even on the massive climbs the rider on the wheel still holds the edge to someone doing the work. On the flat stages the peloton is almost always going to catch a breakaway. Any marginal advantage is super useful in that context and the well funded teams push to optimize everything. I think it’s more likely than not there is cheating. Motors seem unlikely but with this kind of money and international attention marginal advantages like microdosing for example will be exploited. People cheat in everything and often get rewarded for it. It’s an infuriating fact of life.