Isseven

108 points
1/21/1970
2 days ago
by philipreasa

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Rendello

Doesn't work for the other 125 encoded characters that are numerically seven, as defined in the Unicode Character Database:

https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedN...

(Viewable / copy-able version: https://pastebin.com/fNRv3wD6)

2 days ago

chewbacha

Well then, I won’t be a paying customer then.

2 days ago

Rendello

I should mention that unicode.org has a "Unicode Set" query tool so no one gets swindled by a similar service ;)

https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%...

21 hours ago

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2 days ago

vova_hn2

I was almost sure that they do it client-side for a joke, but if you check the browser console, you can see that they actually make a request! You can even make the same request with curl and it works!

Although, making an HTTP request manually is quite inconvenient, so I'm waiting for Python SDK.

2 days ago

cyode

Heads up OP: I’m trying to get a pro license but your checkout flow is borked. Probably should fix ASAP before missing out on HN front page traffic.

2 days ago

grant0417

Vulnerable to a distillation attack, unfortunately not much of a moat.

2 days ago

OsrsNeedsf2P

I misread this as "is even" and was shocked that 46 returned false

2 days ago

8n4vidtmkvmk

I think that's part of the joke. iseven is a real, non-joke package.

2 days ago

ollybee

With 250k weekly downloads. That is no joke.

2 days ago

stkdump

With a dependency on is-odd (which in turn has a dependency on is-number)

a day ago

Quot

7.0000000000000001 evaluates to true.

2 days ago

silisili

As does 6.9999999999999999.

2 days ago

geor9e

true: 0x7, 007, 0b111

kinda: seven

false: siete, 111, VII

2 days ago

dudeinjapan

It's an inclusive app.

2 days ago

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2 days ago

encody

> 77.7% uptime SLA

Giving GitHub a run for its money, I see.

2 days ago

evanb

Bug report: I tried 6.999999̅ and got false. So there's some nonstandard model of the reals being leveraged here.

2 days ago

nvader

Bug report: I entered 3 + 4 and did not get a kinda or true.

This app is ngmi

2 days ago

wincy

Well the all only has 77.7% uptime maybe it just returns wrong things while it’s down, that’s probably it. Try upgrading to Enterprise that’ll probably fix it.

2 days ago

kmoser

I would have expected something other than false for "se7en".

2 days ago

golem14

Similar report here:

70/10, 7.1-0.1 and srqt(49) also do not return true.

Is there a published SLA for the free version?

2 days ago

addandsubtract

I think everyone has moved on to iseight

2 days ago

fosco

00000111 also came back false

2 days ago

downboots

no Roman numeral support either

2 days ago

akoboldfrying

BTW: For a tool that actually legitimately does this, look at Semgrep. Their playground example literally assigns 1 to a variable x, after which searching for "2" finds the expression "1 + x" in the code: https://semgrep.dev/playground/s/5rKgj

2 days ago

qot

Very similar to https://isevenapi.xyz/

Even down to injecting an ad into the response as a joke.

a day ago

CobrastanJorji

That documentation is woefully inadequate. It provides only one example request, and then it shows two separate responses, and it doesn't make clear which one is associated with the request. It doesn't even describe the individual request fields, nor does it provide any response codes or a list of error codes/messages. How am I supposed to develop with this?

I do, however, appreciate the seven figure SLA. My service requires at least five nines of uptime, and seven figures is definitely more than five.

2 days ago

8n4vidtmkvmk

Seven figures is indeed more than five figures. Too bad they're all 7s.

2 days ago

seanhunter

7x7=49 > 45=5*9.

Ldo.

2 days ago

himata4113

complaint: someone entered "seven" and it crashed my entire infrastructure because the output returned a non standard 'kinda'.

2 days ago

LatticeAnimal

JSONQ supports quantum-aware booleans. Is there a reason you’re still using classical JSON parsing in 2026?

2 days ago

akoboldfrying

Enterprise looks promising, but before I take this to upper management: How many sevens of uptime are we talking?

2 days ago

timcobb

> 77.7% uptime SLA

looks like one 7

2 days ago

pugworthy

Seven Sigma is not all it's cut out to be.

2 days ago

NooneAtAll3

that's at least 3

2 days ago

rushabh

Reminds me of https://five.js.org/

2 days ago

forthwall

Needs an Agent skill! Gotta be more modern :)

2 days ago

verzali

Did not work, did not recognise 'VII' as seven.

15 hours ago

dustimpact

Apparently “seven” is only kinda seven. I would argue that seven is seven!

2 days ago

simeonmiteff

Got to love that "kinda" is now a JSON bool value!

2 days ago

bombcar

I can use this as a random number generator; at least it's not nine.

2 days ago

rnoorda

It's just as random as any other number!

2 days ago

layer8

It hallucinates 6.9999999999999996 to be seven.

2 days ago

0xblinq

I wanted to subscribe and I can't! How do you expect to make any money if that doesn't work?!!1

2 days ago

iamgopal

No other numbers were harmed in the making of this API.

But their feeling hurts, especially primes.

2 days ago

csmantle

This Is Seven as a Service.

2 days ago

layer8

No, this is the test harness for Seven as a Service.

2 days ago

charcircuit

This SaaS actually will be replaced with an in house vibecoded solution.

2 days ago

s20n

Does this have an MCP server?

2 days ago

brap

+1. OP is clearly not read for the Agentic Era

2 days ago

darkhorse13

Is this SOC2 compliant?

2 days ago

seanhunter

We wanted to subscribe to the enterprise plan, but unfortunately:

- No Soc-2 compliance

- No sso support.

We asked if we could host on-prem or even byoc but that seems an impossible dream.

Smh

2 days ago

matt3210

Does not work for Nw==

2 days ago

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2 days ago

mwkaufma

TIL 6+1 is not seven.

2 days ago

zetanor

Oh, come on people. You don't need a cloud service for this. Just use the is-seven NPM package.

a day ago

ptdorf

$ du -sh node_modules/

371M node_modules/

7 hours ago

nwhnwh

I will vibe code my way out of poverty:

2 days ago

system2

I like how you spent $10 for the domain for this. :)

2 days ago

amarant

10? That seems about $3 too much!

2 days ago

system2

The cheapest domain purchase can be made from CloudFlare. They are selling at ICANN's minimum fee. Which is $10...

a day ago

cyanydeez

needs an MCP.

a day ago

hyperhello

Eh, more better than Prolog.

2 days ago