Yeah it's odd we needed a whole article for this. "You can't out exercise a bad diet" has always been true outside of the most extreme cases (competitive athletes).

It may just be such a basic tenant of the platform that no one thought to. You stop getting billed after lambda returns a response so why would you expect computation to continue? This guy expected free lunch.

I don't see that on the main AWS Lambda pages. It just says that you pay for what you use. It would make sense that the time billed would be until there is no more code to execute.

Yeah, but if you actually read the developer documentation, they explain the execution model pretty extensively.

Developers will do anything except read the documentation.

So many times I've caught myself thinking "I don't want to understand this shit, I just wanna fix it," as I've grudgingly opened up whatever docs I've avoided reading; almost as many times as I've wondered "what fucking moron wrote this code" before immediately `git blame`ing myself.

>until there is no more code to execute

What does "no more code to execute" mean to you? How would you define that?

Essentially !uv_loop_alive, when the event loop will exit.

In the context of lambda, when you return.

Fair enough, I guess this just seems like a bold assumption to make since an explicit handler function is a cornerstone of lambda, rather than being able to run module level code and having the end self detected.

For brochure / static content sites this is definitely the beginnings of a web crawler but it can be a lot trickier for web apps.

For example, clicking a link which loads some data, then clicking edit (which isn't even an anchor), typing in & clicking stuff, then clicking the save button (don't click the cancel button!) would not be an interaction that would get picked up with your suggestion. Detecting loops becomes much more ambiguous and backtracking to get all the permutations of interactions becomes a whole other problem to solve.

If you are using Cludfront with an S3 origin you can turn on static website hosting and specify a 404 fallback page[0] - which would then just be your index file. It will render your client code and let you show a 404 if it is indeed one.

The problem is that essentially every time a user goes to the site it will be a 404 status code since they are probably not typing in example.com/index but this has pragmatically not been an issue for a wholly authenticated, private, B2B SaaS app. The marketing website is a separate subdomain.

For a public site this is probably worse than returning 200s that should be 404s occasionally, though.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Custom...

I don’t know what my use case for this would be. I don’t tend to do anything regularly through a browser that I’d want to automate.

Would be kind of handy to have a “pull all my relevant tax info documents from these sites and zip them up” automation but I only do that once a year.

I’m probably being unimaginative. Anybody have any interesting use cases?

Anyone have

Imagine that exact use-case -- pulling up relevant tax information and filling it

Now imagine it from the accountant POV, where they have the same use-case for hundreds of clients

This is where we've seen something like Skyvern really shine. It's targeting industries and companies that are doing rote work at a significant scale

On an iPhone, can they actually access mic input without the indicator being on?

No.

An insecure enough sensor implementation can pick up sound from the gyroscope though.

95% 4 perfect

It just seems odd in this context given they are willfully compiling these screenshots together, displaying them prominently, and saying they pay attention to details. What details are they trying to highlight here, if not the UI details?

In general the UI doesn't even look good. It's just a bunch of unflattering grey.

Am I the only one who gets an uncanny feeling visiting this site? If someone told me this was software satire I would believe them.

This cyberpunk-ish theme with juvenile sprite sprinkled over it (e.g. the little AI guy floating under the video and the figures under "What people are saying").

At the beginning of the video I get these '90s infomercial; "The world moves fast / information super highway" vibes. The background music seems ironic considering the visual content.

I guess it is just trying to be retro but the "I want to be post iOS 5 Apple" top bar throws me off. Sorry this is not constructive but I just must know if I'm the only one feeling this.

In any case, I don't mind Slack but I'd give this a try if they allowed more than 500 messages in the free tier. At least Slack gives you the 90 day history.

This looks more like a minecraft discord channel than an actual product.

"Learn to Code like a Developer" is a funny tag line to me. Isn't the point to become a developer? Or are you saying: "you're going to learn with modern tools, just like how a may use tools to facilitate coding?"

Maybe highlight the fact that you have an AI bot helping you through it. I would not have known it unless I read your HN comment.