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Hi HN,

I’m experiencing a destructive and seemingly erratic behavior from Fly.io's automated systems that resulted in a total loss of data across multiple organizations.

I have been using Fly.io since July 2023 with two distinct organizations:

Org A: Used for some Selenium-based automation experiments in late 2025 and other unrelated private projects through the years.

Org B: A long-standing production environment with a Postgres database, active since 2023 with a consistent billing history.

The Incident Recently, I discovered that everything across all my organizations has been nuked. Apps, databases, and even the volume snapshots (backups) have vanished. The dashboard for my database volume now simply says "deleted 16 days ago."

The contradiction in their system is staggering:

In both organizations, I see a semi-transparent banner: "Your account was flagged by our fraud protection system. Learn more" (the "Learn more" is not even a link).

However, the "Billing" page for Org B still claims the account status is in "Good Standing."

To make it even more surreal, I recently received an automated email from billing@fly.io stating: "Your organization Org B got 100% discount this month!" while my data was already gone.

The critical issue: The database in Org B contains irreplaceable data. While I have older backups, the recent records are unique and cannot be reconstructed. Recovery is my absolute priority.

The Shadow-Lock Loop My account is NOT banned—I can still log in—but I am stuck in a programmatic "shadow-lock" loop:

Support Tickets: My emails to billing@fly.io (including specific Machine and Volume IDs) have gone unanswered for almost 3 days.

Paid Plan Upgrade: I tried to upgrade to the $29/mo Launch plan to access prioritized support, but the dashboard throws a "Failed to Get Current Plan" error every time I try to add a payment method.

Community Forum: I can't even post there; I get a "Validation Error" when trying to set a username.

Red Flags for the Community

Zero Notification: No email, no warning, and no notification of any violation before the wipe.

Instant Snapshot Deletion: Deleting persistent volumes AND their snapshots simultaneously without a grace period is a terrifying prospect for any PaaS user.

Cross-Org Contamination: A flag on an experimental organization (Org A) led to the silent destruction of a completely separate, clean production organization (Org B).

I have all the technical IDs ready. Although the dashboard says the volume was deleted 16 days ago, I am desperately hoping that a human engineer can still locate a backup or snapshot in their storage before the data is scrubbed forever.

Be careful: On Fly.io, an automated flag on one organization can apparently lead to the total destruction of everything you've built across your entire account over the last 2.5 years.

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Claude is honestly excellent for building, but when it comes to content, explanations, or digging into information, I still often prefer ChatGPT.

And constantly switching between models is still annoying.

Have you found project orchestration solutions for this problem? How do you handle it ?

My current stack: VSC COde with Claude code plugin + Obsidian + Chatgpt (copy and paste) for the content I don't like.

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I built a private desktop app that shows you what you actually did during a work session, whether it matched your intent, and the behavioral patterns behind how you worked. I used to reflect on my work from memory, but memory is unreliable. I'd think I spent an hour on a task when half of it actually went to jumping between tabs, checking messages, and re-reading the same pages. I'd tell myself the reason was that I was tired, when in reality the task just wasn't clearly defined yet. How it works: you set your intent before a work session. The app silently tracks your window activity (no screenshots). You can log how you're feeling at any point, on your own terms, no notifications, no interruptions. When you're done, AI generates a behavioral report ,not just what you did, but why you worked the way you did, with actionable suggestions to improve next time. Privacy was non-negotiable. Your data never leaves your machine. Everything is stored locally in SQLite. No servers, no accounts, no cloud. The only external calls are to Google Gemini to check your intent for clarity and to generate your report. It receives your intent, window titles, app names, and feeling logs. No file contents, no screenshots. Built with Electron, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and Google Gemini.Free on macOS. I'd love your feedback.

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Hi HN,

We built Notation by Fownd to address the 'documentation tax' that physical therapists pay after hours.

Most AI scribes are generic transcribers. We’re focusing on clinical reasoning — capturing the therapist's intent in real-time to build structured, compliant SOAP notes during the session.

Key Focus Areas: - Real-time SOAP Alignment: Structured notes that follow medical standards. - Clinical Reasoning Capture: Moves beyond simple speech-to-text. - Niche-Specific Logic: Designed by PTs to avoid generic medical templates. - Privacy & Compliance: Built for outpatient and home health security.

I’m happy to answer any questions about the tech stack or the clinical logic we're using!

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Hi HN,

I’m Padam, a developer based in Dubai.

Over the last 2 years I’ve been experimenting with the idea that AI inference might not require GPUs.

Modern LLM inference is often memory-bound rather than compute-bound, so I built an experimental system that virtualizes GPU-style parallelism from CPU cores using SIMD vectorization and quantization.

The result is AlifZetta — a prototype AI-native OS that runs inference without GPU hardware.

Some details:

• ~67k lines of Rust • kernel-level SIMD scheduling • INT4 quantization • sparse attention acceleration • speculative decoding • 6 AI models (text, code, medical, image,research,local)

Goal: make AI infrastructure cheaper and accessible where GPUs are expensive.

beta link is here: https://ask.axz.si

Curious what HN thinks about this approach.

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Hi HN! I'm Tae, a solo developer from Seoul. I've been building Mirra for the past year.

The problem: creating consistent social media content is a massive time sink for small businesses and creators. Writing posts, designing carousels, editing videos – it takes hours every week.

Mirra lets you go from a raw idea to ready-to-publish content in minutes: - Type an idea or paste a URL → AI generates carousel slides, short-form video scripts, and captions - Supports Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, TikTok - Built-in scheduler to publish directly

The core insight was that most content tools focus on one format. Mirra treats your idea as the source of truth and adapts it to each platform's format automatically.

I'm a solo founder, so I'd love honest feedback – especially on what's missing or broken. Happy to answer any questions!

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Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.

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Hey everyone, just a bit of context into what I built.

The essential question was - What do food tech companies despite being major competitors, have in common?

Their food delivery riders are all used as guinea pigs for online clout by influencers

You know what I mean, those videos where money or food is handed out as gifts to show what a generous person the giver is, or how they’re breaking the norm by showing kindness etc “…….”

Keeping aside my personal disdain for filming a good act for attention, the fact that they have no consideration for the drivers privacy even when editing the video is wild. You can make all those edit cuts but can’t blur the drivers face?

I built igotfilmed.com exactly for that.

I initially built it with 5 language versions for the majority i see in dubai - Hindi, Afrikaans, Nepali, Malayalam and Tagalog- planning to add more options later

Drivers can now report/submit filming incidents where they noticed they’ve been filmed quietly, their videos have been uploaded on social media without their explicit knowledge or permission or even times when they were asked for permission.

The idea is to create a centralized location where all food tech companies delivery drivers can be made aware of which areas are the most common for these issues and which category is the most common. And for the ones who’s videos have been submitted without their permission- I have a plan for that

The company where they work at etc is kept entirely private as it’s not shown on the site ever. Interestingly enough tho, 2 companies popped up all the time when I was collecting sample data (which is what you see on the map now)

The map legend colors do not denote the company. They’re just colors chosen randomly.

It’s free for them to use.

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