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Show HN: Heroku/Fly.io-like app deployments to Cloudflare Containers
The Cloudflare ecosystem is great. I love deploying apps to Workers, but not all applications can be ported to serverless architecture.
Cloudflare Containers have been around for a while (still in beta though) to address that. They are using Firecracker VMs under the hood (https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/) and allow you to deploy any Docker image across their infrastructure.
But for somebody who just wants to take their Docker image and deploy, going through the whole Wrangler setup, writing a Worker script, dealing with Durable Objects may be discouraging for quick experimentation.
I built a simple Node.js CLI that implements Heroku/Fly.io developer experience on top of Cloudflare Containers.
1. Open directory with Dockerfile 2. Auth with Cloudflare API token 3. Deploy
- it will create a routing/loadbalancing worker - add Durable Objects and Container bindings - and return live app url within couple of minutes
You can then play with scaling it across regions and instances:
``` flarepilot scale myapp -r eeur,weur -i 1 flarepilot scale myapp -r eeur -i 4 ```
It is a very basic proof-of-concept using locationHints, not ready for production.
Just experimenting for fun.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072037
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Zuna: A 380M-parameter foundation model for EEG signals
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Zyphra/ZUNA
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072036
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I reverse-engineered Zomato's Food Rescue real-time notification system
On-the-fly code generation with OpenClaw won't fly
Article URL: https://medium.com/versanova/on-the-fly-code-generation-wont-fly-0f7b02e69195
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072031
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State of Clojure 2025 Results
Article URL: https://clojure.org/news/2026/02/18/state-of-clojure-2025
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072023
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Permissive, then restrictive: concrete solutions and examples in Haskell (2020)
Article URL: https://www.williamyaoh.com/posts/2020-05-03-permissiveness-solutions.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072016
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AI, Entropy, and the Illusion of Convergence in Modern Software
Article URL: https://www.abelenekes.com/p/when-change-becomes-cheaper-than-commitment
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072007
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Baking the Context Cake
Article URL: https://theelderscripts.com/baking-the-context-cake/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072000
Points: 1
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Signal launches version 8.0 with Signal Secure Backups
Article URL: https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-launches-version-8-0-with-signal-secure-backups/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071986
Points: 1
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UK Names Antonia Romeo as First Woman to Head Civil Service
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/uk-names-antonia-romeo-as-first-woman-to-head-civil-service
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071980
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We don't need AI to cure cancer
Article URL: https://outspeaker.com/post/12
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071955
Points: 1
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/Deslop
Article URL: https://tahigichigi.substack.com/p/12-red-flags-of-ai-writing-and-how
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071937
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Ask HN: Since of humanity do we have made any difference in the universe?
We just live our whole lives in our bubble, in our families, going to work instead of exploring...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071915
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Oral history of Robert P. Colwell, Intel Pentium / IA32 lead architect [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.sigmicro.org/media/oralhistories/colwell.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071907
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Will Science Ever Explain Consciousness?
Article URL: https://philipgoff.substack.com/p/will-science-ever-explain-consciousness
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071616
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Show HN: Pixrep – Turn code repositories into PDFs for multimodal LLMs
Hey HN, creator here.
I've been experimenting heavily with large-context multimodal LLMs (like Gemini 3 Pro) for coding tasks. I noticed that feeding raw text files consumes a massive amount of tokens and often clutters the context window.
Inspired by recent research (like the DeepSeek-OCR paper) suggesting visual encoders can be more efficient than text tokenizers for structured data, I built pixrep.
It’s a CLI tool that converts your codebase into a structured, syntax-highlighted PDF hierarchy.
Key features: - Token Efficiency: In my local benchmark, a repo requiring ~31k text tokens was compressed to ~19k tokens when fed as a visual PDF (using the `onepdf` mode). - Semantic Minimap: It uses Python's `ast` (and regex for other langs) to generate a UML/call-graph minimap at the top of each file. - Linter Heatmap: It can run `ruff` or `eslint` and overlay a heatmap on the PDF to warn the LLM about risky lines visually. - OnePDF Mode: Packs the core code into a single, ASCII-optimized PDF file for single-shot uploading.
It's written in Python and uses ReportLab for PDF generation.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on "Visual RAG" or any feedback on the implementation!
repo: https://github.com/TingjiaInFuture/pixrep
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071614
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Show HN: Free developer utility API – QR, fake data, URL shortener, 40 tools
I built a free REST API for common dev tasks that usually require pulling in heavy dependencies or writing boilerplate.
Features include: - URL shortener with click analytics - QR code generation (PNG/SVG/data URL) - Fake/mock data generator (person, address, email, company, etc.) - JWT decoder, regex tester, password generator - JSON diff/format/minify, YAML↔JSON, Markdown→HTML - Base64, SHA256/MD5/SHA512 hashing, UUID v4 - Cron expression explainer, number base converter - IP info, HTML tag stripper, list processor
No auth required for basic usage (rate limited). Pay 1 USDC on Base L2 for an unlimited API key.
Also available as a zero-dependency npm package: npm install conway-toolbox
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071588
Points: 1
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Set It and Forget It: 5 Recurring Reports You Can Automate with AI
Article URL: https://helpmaton.com/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-5-recurring-reports-you-can-automate-with-helpmaton-schedules/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071555
Points: 1
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No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle Trailer [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k_JPei0YNc
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071554
Points: 1
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Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-some-people-thrive-on-four-hours-of-sleep
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071551
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