Hacker News: levlaz

Cirrus CI is shutting down: upgrade to a scalable, AI-ready alternative

levlaz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:42:36 +0000

Article URL: https://circleci.com/blog/cirrus-ci-alternative/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789081

Points: 1

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Large Behavior Models and Atlas Find New Footing

levlaz — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:43:30 +0000

Article URL: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/large-behavior-models-atlas-find-new-footing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45042650

Points: 1

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Have smart glasses hit an inflection point?

levlaz — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:37:39 +0000

Article URL: https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/have-smart-glasses-finally-hit-an-inflection-point/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985215

Points: 4

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New comment by levlaz in "Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes–Please"

levlaz — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:52:25 +0000

Em is dead, AI ruined it for everyone. Sorry.

Building GoReleaser: from shell script to paid product

levlaz — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://carlosbecker.com/posts/building-goreleaser/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44969124

Points: 2

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New comment by levlaz in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)"

levlaz — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:08:04 +0000

Hello, Dagger employee here.

Thanks so much for taking a look and sharing your feedback! We've heard this feedback in the past and are working on a big docs change that should make this whole experience a lot better for folks that are new to dagger.

https://devel.docs.dagger.io/getting-started/concepts

This should land in the coming weeks.

Integrating Container-Use in WSL for Agentic Development

levlaz — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.techdecline.dev/integrating-container-use-in-wsl-for-agentic-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398026

Points: 3

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The AGI economy is coming faster than you think

levlaz — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:49:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/agi-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334605

Points: 33

# Comments: 13

New comment by levlaz in "Darklang Goes Open Source"

levlaz — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:28:18 +0000

Ocaml

New comment by levlaz in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

levlaz — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:15:10 +0000

Most wholesome HN post this year

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:48:38 +0000

It’s similar to a builder pattern but not just a builder pattern because depending on the type you can indefinitely pipe context independent types.

So it’s a bit of a hybrid between bash and powershell.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:45:31 +0000

If you’re working on your own you may not need dagger.

If you’re working on a team often your shell scripts, python programs, and makes files are not always portable between local and CI, but even worse between your local machine and your colleagues local machine. This is where dagger shines because it lets you do all that stuff in a fully portable way.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:13:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience, I'd love to hear more details.

Feel free to send me an email if you'd like lev@dagger.io, it would be great to learn from your experience so we can continue to improve the platform for everyone.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:10:43 +0000

Its the same idea. You are taking the instructions in with-exec and pushing it to the previous type.

In this case, `from alpine` is a function attached to the container type that has many additional functions. You chain them together to do stuff. You can do it through code as if it was any other object, but this shell allows you to do things without code as well.

Perhaps the example is too simple to feel useful, but being able to pipe primitives like files, directories, containers, secrets, and even any custom object makes it possible to rapidly experiment with and compose pipelines.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:02:36 +0000

I would lump dagger in with JS (programming language, ecosystem, runtime) and MacOS (operating system) before comparing it to any single tool.

Answering "what does dagger do" can be tough, because there are very broad applications.

Its always hard to describe general purpose platforms like these. Dagger is an open platform for building composable software. It has SDKs, sandboxed execution environment, observability, and now this shell interface.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:17:30 +0000

Dagger aims to be more than a build kit interface and more than just a build system. Many people have been using it outside of CI for years.

But I can appreciate your perspective. Thank you for sharing your point of view.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:56:08 +0000

Why is that? It’s just an extra type that has no impact on any other types. It’s a tool in your toolbox that you can use when you need it and ignore otherwise.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:53:13 +0000

It’s def closer to powershell in all the best ways IMO. But the key point is that the container thing is actually a typed object. So is every other primitive in there including once you make yourself.

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:12:39 +0000

You sure can :)

Dagger can read dockefiles as is, https://docs.dagger.io/cookbook#build-image-from-dockerfile

New comment by levlaz in "Dagger: A shell for the container age"

levlaz — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:02:29 +0000

There’s a tiny but of overlap in principle, but you can use dagger shell without having to learn a new language and the interface is much simpler. Give it a try and let me know which you prefer!