How to Write a Software Request So the Developer Builds It Right the First Time
published: true "Hey, can you build me an app that tracks my leads?" That was the whole request. One sentence. And it sounds reasonable — until you try to actually build the thing and realize that sen...
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How to Read Constraints and Immediately Know the Algorithm: A Jedi's Guide
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Open Codex app from the macOS Terminal with the Current Project Selected
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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World
Article URL: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71619211/peter-thiel-dialog-club-wired-report/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613732 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
22m ago
Agent = Model x Harness: Your Eval Layer Is Part of the Agent, Not a Tool Beside It
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How I Passed AWS SAP-C02 in Just 3 Days
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33m ago
AI Now Recommends Local Businesses. Most Are Invisible.
Forty-five percent of consumers now use an AI assistant to find a local service, up from six percent a year ago. In the same window, ChatGPT was measured recommending just 1.2 percent of all local bus...
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Pre-2022 Books
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Agent browser runs need receipts, not just screenshots
Agentic browser work is getting good enough that teams are starting to trust it for real workflows: researching, filling forms, testing dashboards, and operating internal tools.\n\nBut once an agent c...
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لماذا فشلت 6 منصات نقل جامعية سعودية بعد شفلاء؟ — تحليل 2026"
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Your agent takes orders from the web pages it reads
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Build Financial Analysis into Your Hermes AI Agent with the FMP Skill
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Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed
Article URL: https://abcnews.com/US/tesla-allegedly-autopilot-mode-crashes-texas-house-woman/story?id=134062374 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613481 Points: 29 # Comments: 17
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Three post-deploy checks I run after every Cloudflare Pages build
After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and a Bluesky image upload race against Cloudflare Pa...
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Why I'm betting on AI-curated directories when Google AI Overviews answer the same queries
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OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of the Test
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Agentic AI: Who's responsible? The AI? Or the developer?
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Stop Making Your AI Coding Agent Grep Your Whole Repo — Try codebase-memory-mcp
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EGC: Your AI agents never start from zero again
Every time you open a new session with an AI coding tool, it starts from zero. It does not know what you decided yesterday, what failed last week, or what comes next. You have to explain the project a...
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Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl
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1h ago
100 Days of DevOps, Day 1: Linux User Management and AWS Key Pairs
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The Botfather: Building Your First Crypto Trading Bot
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Descomplicando o Vite
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1h ago
CLI Tools
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Agent frameworks create workflows. Production needs run receipts.
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1h ago
Designing a Transactional Outbox for Reliable Event Delivery in SaaS Platforms
Distributed systems often struggle with one fundamental problem: how to ensure that database changes and event publishing happen together. If the database is updated but the event is not sent, the sys...
1h ago
Supercharge your web app with free AI that runs in your users' browser
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Building a Reliable Messaging Workflow for Automated Guest Communication
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LLMs That Actually Pen Test: What Post-Training for Security Means for Your AI Stack
LLMs That Actually Pen Test: What Post-Training for Security Means for Your AI Stack Security researchers have spent years arguing that LLMs should be more helpful with offensive security tasks. The...
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Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.dallasfed.org/~/media/documents/research/papers/2026/wp2607.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613112 Points: 24 # Comments: 15
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Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate pro...
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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract
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Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches
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2h ago
The Imitation Mandala
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Solstice Signal (Tuning into the Dark)
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Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF
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2h ago
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Hi everyone, I’m Fareed, currently working as a full-stack and AI developer. I’ve been building projects using MERN stack, Django, FastAPI, and also exploring GenAI and agentic AI systems. At the mome...
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THE CLOUD AND AI SECURITY NEWSLETTER #3 - The Cloud Security Tool Your Resume is Missing (Part 2)
Hi there and welcome back! Last week I talked about CIEM and why tools like IAM Access Analyzer matter for understanding who has access to what in your cloud environment. This week, I want to talk abo...
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Dev Log: The milestone where Build() stops lying
I’m reviving Munchausen, a C# NuGet package I started 9 years ago. This is part 6 of an 8-part series documenting both the development process and the engineering decisions behind bringing the project...
2h ago
Alice is impatient
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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How the New, Qatar-Gifted Air Force One Is Different From the Old Ones
Trump spoke of his need for a "plane that’s much newer and much better." Is it actually better?
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A Love Story
Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612714 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
2h ago
I Built a CLI to Stop Missing Env Vars from Breaking Deployments
Environment variables look boring until they break a deployment. I kept running into the same kind of problem while building TypeScript systems: a variable exists locally the CI pipeline does not have...
2h ago
Agnade: meus primeiros passos com ASP.NET Core e Injeção de Dependência
Depois de tantas aplicações do tipo console, treinando OOP, chegou a hora de praticar e fazer uma aplicaçãozinha em ASP.NET. Ainda não sei o que ela pode virar, mas dei o nome de Agnade. Foi um jeito...
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What agentic AI means: the autonomous car reread
🏎️ Do you know the difference between Agentic Engineering and AI-Assisted Engineering? I wrote a simple parallel with autonomous cars that makes the distinction much easier to see. AI-Assisted Engine...
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How to Create Custom Pet Merchandise Designs Using AI
At Inithouse — a studio shipping a growing portfolio of products in parallel — we build tools that solve real creative problems. One of our products, Pet Imagination, turns pet photos into stylized AI...
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The Stock Prophet: My Quest to Find (and Demystify) Machine Learning for Stock Prediction
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MAPPA’s 15th Birthday Was Full of New Anime Teases
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Recover a deleted Deployment from a Retain-policy volume (CKA Storage)
The Retained Volume Someone deleted a database deployment by accident. The good news: the data is still on disk. In the next few minutes you'll reconnect it the way the CKA exam expects. 🎥 Watch th...