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I’ve been using this local debugger for the last ~week. Seeing traces in real-time (and Claude seeing them too) is so so good. The velocity speed up is hard to understate. Request …

They actually deliver on the promise of "relational queries && real-time," which is no small feat. Though, their console feels like it didn't get the love that the rest of the infr…

Add a list of people (PMs) who have added feature requests. Have their username be " ( ) - " and then I can click through to see their bio.

It was not on my bingo card to see the Shell Grotto on HN. I loved this place as a kid and would marvel at the patterns. The air of mystery around who made it and why invites some …

I don't trust an AI model to operate my computer, but giving me my own VM that AIs can use on my behalf is a brilliant way to do this. Kudos Tasklet.

Genie 3 is super impressive -- but you can't manipulate it programmatically like Minecraft. We've built our infra so that we can plug in any simulation environment. If an AI-genera…

Hi HN - Minecraft has a DSL that lets you manipulate the world. We've piggy-backed on that, along with a K8s infra to run N worlds in parallel, to let you create simulations of arb…

I don't have the prompts, but here you go: - https://the-inference.vercel.app - https://github.com/jamestamplin/instant-test

I built an app (HN Clone, of course) with Instant's MCP hooked up to Claude Code. The experience was brilliant. Pros: + Fast + Easy + "Vibe coding on steroids" basically + The sens…

+1 to Shortwave being great

[Firebase founder] The thing I'm excited about w/Instant is the quad-fecta of offline + real-time + relational queries + open source. The amount of requests we had for relational q…

We were talking to (and using the sites) of all our customers of any reasonable size. This was one of them.

The satire in the title is reminiscent of how Firebase was born. We were previously working on a chat system called Envolve ( https://www.envolve.com ), that was 'Facebook Chat for…

Related, but different, & if there's someone at Google looking at this: There was a Titan Bluetooth Key (for 2FA) Vulnerability, you've said you'll replace the affected keys[1], bu…

Fun fact: the original App Engine datastore evolved into Firestore (which now powers Snapchat and many others).

Thanks, fixed!

[Firebase founder] I no longer work at Firebase / Google, but two points: 1. There may be issues with the GCP integrations & UX/DX, but GCP integration is good for many customers a…