Hacker News with Generative AI: Serverless

Show HN: Serverless MCP – Debug AWS serverless resources in your IDE (serverless.com)
Show HN: ActorCore – Stateful serverless framework that runs anywhere (github.com/rivet-gg)
Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture (github.com/TuanKiri)
A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants like Claude to retrieve and interpret real-time weather data.
Endor: WebAssembly-Based Server in the Browser (thenewstack.io)
Facestream: Real-time face swap with serverless WebRTC (github.com/philipp-eisen)
This is a web app that let's you swap your face in real-time without having a powerful machine. You can try it out live here.
Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine? (ycombinator.com)
It's common to see here that Postgres hosted in RDS can handle 99% of workloads up to millions of users. I'm building an IoT app with a plan to ingest the IoT traffic into dynamo partitioned on user id (I'm quite familiar with the tradeoffs) and everything else be in Postgres. A few services but not microservice (basically: core service, identity service, IoT data service, notification service).
DeepSeek-R1 now available as a managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock (amazon.com)
As of January 30, DeepSeek-R1 models became available in Amazon Bedrock through the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. Since then, thousands of customers have deployed these models in Amazon Bedrock. Customers value the robust guardrails and comprehensive tooling for safe AI deployment. Today, we’re making it even easier to use DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock through an expanded range of options, including a new serverless solution.
SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale (rivet.gg)
We're Rivet, a new open-source, self-hostable serverless platform. We've been in the weeds with SQLite-on-the-server recently and – boy – do we have a lot of thoughts to share. Give us a star on GitHub, we'll be sharing a lot more about SQLite soon!
Is JavaScript web server performance just a marketing facade? (deno.com)
Siren Call of SQLite on the Server (pid1.dev)
At Terrateam, we are big fans of Fly.io. The service is hosted there and it’s served us well. Just deploy your TOML file, get your infrastructure, do something else with the rest of your day.
Show HN: PulseBeam – Simplify WebRTC by Staying Serverless (github.com/PulseBeamDev)
Simplifies real-time application development. Defines signaling protocol for connection establishment, handling media and data transmission, and provides infrastructure.
Show HN: Dispatched.dev – Background Job Queues for Your Serverless Apps (dispatched.dev)
Stop managing queues and workers. Focus on building your app while we handle your background jobs with simple HTTP requests.
PR Previews Don't Need Vercel: My Solution on a $5 VPS (pert.dev)
Let's preface this by admitting that the title is a little farcical - the fact that Vercel and other similar sites give you preview domains out of the box with no setup is a lovely feature. This blog is purely to show you that it's actually possible to configure these yourself, and furthermore, it's way easier than you might think!
Serverless VPN Self-hosted (serverlessvpn.com)
Create your own WireGuard® VPN servers with a single click in over 49 locations using your own cloud accounts on AWS Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Akamai Linode, and Vultr. Pay once, download, and install on your own server, then use it forever.
Amazon Aurora DSQL (amazon.com)
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.
Static IPs for Serverless Containers (modal.com)
At Modal, we built a high-availability, Go-based VPN proxy called vprox.
Unstructured Serverless API (unstructured.io)
This page describes how to get started with the Unstructured Serverless API. Learn how to obtain an API key to use with the Unstructured Serverless API, and get started in no time.
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either (benhouston3d.com)
Kubernetes often represents the ultimate solution for container orchestration, but my experience has led me to leave it behind in favor of a simpler, cost-effective solution using Google Cloud Run. This transition has made my infrastructure projects easier to manage, more scalable, and significantly cheaper. Here’s why I made this choice and how Cloud Run offers a better fit for my needs going forward.
Puter.js – Serverless Auth, Cloud, and AI. Forever Free for Developers (puter.com)
Puter.js provides authentication, cloud storage, database, GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5, DALL-E 3, and more,all through a single JavaScript library. No backend. No servers. No configuration.
Rust for AWS Lambda, the Docker Way (beeb.li)
Rust is a great language to consider when writing services for AWS Lambda, because of its extremely low start-up time, CPU usage and memory footprint.
ServerlessWP: Host WordPress Sites on Vercel, Netlify, or AWS Lambda (github.com/mitchmac)
Host WordPress sites on Vercel, Netlify, or AWS Lambda
Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production (github.com/opennextjs)
OpenNext takes the Next.js build output and converts it into packages that can be deployed across a variety of environments. Natively OpenNext has support for AWS Lambda, and classic Node.js Server.
Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps (fermyon.com)
The Spin community is proud to introduce Spin 3.0 — the latest major release of Spin, the open source developer tool for building, distributing, and running serverless WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications everywhere.
SST: Container Support (sst.dev)
Historically, SST has primarily supported deploying serverless applications. But over the last month we’ve slowly expanded native support for containers on AWS.
Show HN: Modus, serverless framework for intelligent APIs powered by WebAssembly (github.com/hypermodeinc)
Modus is an open-source, serverless framework for building APIs powered by WebAssembly. It simplifies integrating AI models, data, and business logic with sandboxed execution. And, it's really fast.
Show HN: Rust based AWS Lambda Logs Viewer (TUI) (github.com/resola-ai)
A terminal-based user interface (TUI) application for viewing AWS Lambda function logs across multiple profiles and regions.
Puter.js (puter.com)
Puter.js provides auth, cloud storage, database, GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5, DALL-E 3, and more, all through a single JavaScript library. No backend. No servers. No configuration.
Retrieval powered by object storage: AMA (ycombinator.com)
Chroma now has a fully-distributed and serverless version backed by object-storage (also Apache 2.0).
Show HN: Run a Rust HTTP Server in AWS Lambda (Axum+Scaffoldly) (github.com/scaffoldly)
Scaffoldly allows you to run any HTTP server inside AWS Lambda.
Scalable Server SQLite Apps (servicestack.net)
Ever since adding support for Litestream in our project's templates GitHub Action Deployments we've been using SQLite as the backend for our new .NET C# Apps as it's the most cost-effective option that frees us from needing to use a cloud managed database which lets us make use of Hetzner's much cheaper US Cloud VMs.