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New ask Hacker News story: AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human

AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human 32 by gadjonesq | 1 comments on Hacker News. AWS has been charging me $1,500/month for near-zero usage. For over a year. That is more than $18,000 for infrastructure I barely use. I tried multiple times to get a human on the phone to discuss it. Every time I requested a callback, AWS would call, a bot would tell me the human wasn't available, and promise a callback. No human ever called back. So I stopped paying. Why keep paying charges I believe are wrong when the company won't discuss them? AWS emailed asking if my case was resolved — from a no-reply address. Nobody followed up. Feb 19: AWS suspended my account. Route 53 DNS down. Domain, business email, website — all dead instantly. Feb 21: I paid the $1,600 outstanding bill. AWS took the money. Account stayed locked. Why? While I was resolving that bill, another $1,500 bill came in. But because they had already locked me out, I couldn't ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs?

Ask HN: Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs? 3 by stopbulying | 9 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: I made my favorite AI tool

I made my favorite AI tool 2 by sebringj | 2 comments on Hacker News. i do not submit things to hacker news unless its related to my favorite tool ever, literally, that i happened to have made. i made this out of being super lazy and wanted my copilot (works in all ai editors) to run my UI while its coding and validate it at the same time by using the apps. i don't know how to contain how good this is for me to use other than putting it here for people to look at. so using it with opus 4.5-4.6 its extremely good, however using it with gpt-5.3 its still good but you have to remind it to use the "autonomo help" when it forgets how to use it correctly sometimes. anyways, please check it out if you are curious and want very fast efficient UI driven (multi app/web/desktop at the same time, agnostic) validation while you vibe. I just keep using it everyday but still waiting for something to just make this obsolete. web page: https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/ github: https...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?

Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea? 2 by burnerToBetOut | 4 comments on Hacker News. Chime in, HN, with the feasibility of the following idea for a side project… _____________ User Story As a reader logged in to Hacker News on a locally running web browser, I want a process running on my device that polls for "Show HN" posts and automatically replies to them — as me — with the results of an LLM-analyzed critique of the posted projects discovered by the process. Acceptance Criteria • A brutally frank critique of the posted "Show HN" project is given by a state-of-the-art LLM • A count of existing projects functionally identical to the post being critiqued is displayed • A list of authoritative learning resources on whatever the LLM determined the author is probably trying to accomplish is provided • …???… _____________ FWIW: Even with the well-documented initial inertia-reducing powers of today's coding agents, it...
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New ask Hacker News story: I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects

I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects 2 by amin2011 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm a 15-year-old full-stack developer, and I recently built Codeown (https://codeown.space). The problem I wanted to solve: GitHub is great for code, but not for showing the "journey" or the UI. LinkedIn is too corporate and noisy for raw, work-in-progress (WIP) dev projects. I wanted a dedicated, clean space where developers can just share what they are building, get feedback, and log their progress. Tech Stack: > I built the frontend with React and handle auth via Clerk. I recently had to migrate my backend/DB off Railway's free tier (classic indie hacker struggle!), but it taught me a lot about deployment and optimization. We just hit our first 5 real users today, and the community is slowly starting to form. I’m still learning, and I know the performance and UI can be improved. I would absolutely love your brutal, honest feedback on: The...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story

Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story 5 by matijash | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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