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39m ago

Why "the date exactly halfway between these two dates" doesn't always have one answer

A friend asked me to help her find the exact midpoint between her and her partner's birthdays — apparently it's a whole thing people do, so they get a "shared" anniversary to celebrate every year. I f...

43m ago

5 JSON-to-C# conversion mistakes generated models can hide

JSON-to-C# generators are useful for removing boilerplate, but their output is a starting point - not a schema. Before shipping generated models, I review five things: A missing JSON property and a pr...

48m ago

The Program Said the Cage Was Locked. I Asked the Kernel.

The framework told me the sandbox was applied. I wanted a second opinion, so I asked the kernel. $ grep Seccomp /proc/10920/status /proc/10922/status /proc/10920/status:Seccomp: 0 /proc/10920/stat...

49m ago

Security Monitoring for SRE Teams

Security used to be a separate team. Increasingly, SRE teams are being asked to own the monitoring side of it. Here's a practical framework that doesn't turn you into a SOC analyst. Your existing obse...

52m ago

Local-first multi-hop RAG: Chroma + an entity graph, zero tokens per query

Chroma's sweet spot is local-first: embed your documents, query them "Which university did the founder of the company that acquired Polar The answering passage shares almost no vocabulary with the que...

53m ago

How to Batch Extract PDF Form Data Using C#

In enterprise workflows, PDF forms are widely used for data collection. After users fill out a form, systems typically need to automatically extract the field values for storage, validation, or downst...

53m ago

Multi-hop questions break vector search. Here is a graph layer for Qdrant that fixes them.

Qdrant answers "which vectors are near this query?" in milliseconds at "Where did the founder of the company that acquired Slack study?" The passage that answers this talks about Marc Benioff and USC....

1h ago

Apple CarPlay expands to select pontoon boats with on-water navigation

CarPlay will soon move beyond the road, with Crest and Balise set to bring Apple’s in-car interface to the helm of select pontoon boats. Here are the details.

1h ago

Stop Leaking Vitals: How to Build a Decentralized Health Platform using Differential Privacy 🛡️🏥

In an era where personal biometric data is the "new oil," the stakes for privacy have never been higher. When we talk about decentralized health data, we aren't just talking about blockchain; we're ta...

1h ago

LiFePO4 Won the Power Station Wars. Sodium-Ion Wants a Rematch.

When I pulled the specs on 100+ portable power stations recently, one number jumped out: 94% now use LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate). A few years ago the market was full of older lithium-ion (NMC). T...

1h ago

The Prompt Is Not a Spell — It's Structured Context Injection

"10 magic openings that boost GPT's IQ by 50." "Add this one sentence and your output quality jumps 200%." That's the typical content on Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, and paid prompt communities — and 95% of th...

1h ago

✨ My Developer Portfolio Built with React, Firebase, Tailwind CSS, and Cloudinary

🚀 I Built My Personal Developer Portfolio with React, Firebase, Tailwind CSS & Cloudinary Hi DEV Community! 👋 I'm excited to share my personal developer portfolio, which I built to showcase my skill...

1h ago

Ted Lasso’s season 4 premiere now available to stream on Apple TV

The long-awaited return of Ted Lasso is finally here, with the premiere episode of the show’s much-anticipated fourth season now available to Apple TV subscribers.

1h ago

If You Let AI Handle Things For You, Will It Go Rogue to 'Hit the Target'?

Honestly, when I saw this piece of news this week, my first thought wasn't "AI is going to rebel" — it was: finally, someone's putting the real boundaries of AI agents out in the open. Let me back up...

2h ago

What I learned reading ten EU company registers

I built a free tool that checks a supplier before you pay them. The part that took most of the work, and taught me most, was reading ten national company registers instead of relying on the EU's own V...

2h ago

To big to lie, cheat, steal?

Remember when Volkswagen cheated and lied on their emissions testing for their clean diesel… That was so crazy in retrospect. Imagine Anthropic and OpenAI were completely training on everyone’s data a...

2h ago

From Snoring to Science: Fine-Tuning OpenAI Whisper for Sleep Apnea (OSA) Screening

Is your snoring just a nuisance, or is it a health warning? Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) affects nearly 1 billion people worldwide, yet most remain undiagnosed due to the high cost of clinical polyso...

2h ago

I Wanted to Hear Every Telnyx Voice in One Scene, So I Built a Multi-Character Narrator

Telnyx ships over 700 Ultra voices across 36 languages with sub-100ms time-to-first-byte. The voices are not the problem. Hearing them is. The docs list three. The Voices API returns 4,000+ across eve...

2h ago

Maintaining Foreground Services in the Era of Android Doze Mode

The Silent Disruptor The silence in the room was absolute, broken only by the rhythmic scraping of pens on paper during a high-stakes meeting. Then, it happened. My pocket erupted into a frantic, br...

2h ago

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176983 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

2h ago

Using Multiple AI Agents to Review UI Fidelity to Custom Designs

📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech. Have you ever been hit by a wave of anxiety after implementing a UI based on a mockup? You might think, "I tried to build it as faithfull...

2h ago

Opening Web Invite Links Directly in the App with Expo Router

This article is an English translation of the original Japanese article. In my club management app, I use the following invite URL for both web and iOS app: https://squad-note.com/invite/{orgId} If t...

2h ago

Bugtraq Is Back

Article URL: https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFHWXB3QU57ADOXGL2E/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176947 Points: 7 #...

2h ago

SpaceX Stock Drops After First Earnings Call as Musk Fails to Woo Investors With AI Goals

Musk promised robots on the Moon to justify directing the bulk of SpaceX's $18.4 billion capex on AI.

2h ago

Flowise Is Shutting Down

Article URL: https://flowiseai.com/sunset Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176920 Points: 8 # Comments: 3

2h ago

Environment Variables the Safe Way

Environment Variables the Safe Way Environment variables are the standard way to configure applications without hardcoding secrets or environment-specific details. But they're easy to misuse. I've s...

2h ago

CSS Doesn't Throw: One Mistyped Comment Closer Silently Ate 15 Lines of My Stylesheet

Originally published on hexisteme notes. Every test passed. The page was in pieces. I was rebuilding a small internal dashboard — FastAPI, Jinja2 templates, hand-written CSS, no build step — and the l...

2h ago

Snowflake to Databricks: what the migration actually costs you

Most Snowflake-to-Databricks migrations get sold on cost and delivered on something else. The credit line item is what gets the project funded, but the teams that finish happy are usually the ones tha...

2h ago

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Points: 29 # Comments: 3

2h ago

Mana: 2-3 Seconds to Feeling Human

so I shipped a voice AI assistant that runs entirely on my machine. no cloud, no APIs, no latency nightmares. the original idea came from Alice in Sword Art Online — an AI that feels like an actual p...

2h ago

OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and socia...

3h ago

T-Mobile's next Un-carrier move introduces new 36-month plans to keep customers locked in longer

It's the start of something new

3h ago

Keep Docker Engine as Your Kubernetes Runtime on Ubuntu with cri-dockerd

Sometimes you genuinely want Docker Engine as the Kubernetes node runtime — a team standardized on the Docker CLI/API for tooling, an image-build box that doubles as a node, or a legacy playbook you c...

3h ago

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

Article URL: https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176697 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

3h ago

Construí un sistema de cotizaciones real con .NET 10 y Blazor Server — y esto fue lo que aprendí

Hace unas semanas empecé un proyecto personal con un objetivo simple: automatizar el proceso de cotización de una vidriería que hasta entonces armaba cada presupuesto a mano. Cálculos repetidos, forma...

3h ago

Escaping the Event Loop — A Deep Dive into worker_threads (Part 3/3)

In part 1, we built the core stack/microtask/macrotask model. In part 2, we saw how the browser and Node implement that model differently — rendering interleaved with tasks in the browser, libuv's pha...

3h ago

iPhone 20 Pro and Pro Max Might Get Bigger Screens in 2027

3h ago

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication

Article URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/passwordless-authentication-security-risks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176644 Points: 7 # Comments: 3

3h ago

FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it

Article URL: https://808bits.com/articles/fips-140-3-not-a-security-guarantee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176634 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

3h ago

Don’t screw this up, Marvel

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history. The feature has been a reminder of why Sony is probabl...

3h ago

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 43 # Comments: 2

3h ago

ROI of my 100$ Claude Code Subscription

We’ve all heard the stories about AI and how much faster it supposedly makes you at building software. Some people say they’ve become 10x or even 100x developers. Others say LLMs produce garbage, code...

3h ago

LISP — ภาษา 67 ปีก่อน ที่ยังมีชีวิตอยู่ในทุกภาษาที่คุณเขียน

คุณเขียน if-else ทุกวัน lambda ใน Python, arrow function ใน JavaScript, closure ใน Rust — ทั้งหมดนี้ เกิดจากภาษา LISP และที่น่าทึ่งคือ... LISP ไม่เคยถูก planned ให้เป็นภาษาโปรแกรมด้วยซ้ำ 1958 — John M...

3h ago

Stop Your AI Agent Forgetting User Preferences: Key-Value Memory

Here's a test most AI agents fail. A brand-new user searches flights, books one in business class, and asks: "what do you recommend based on what you know about me?" The agent answers beautifully: bus...

3h ago

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

3h ago

Exploring Form Management Patterns in Flutter with BlocSignal

Form management is one of the most frequent daily challenges in modern Flutter development. Whether building a simple login screen, a settings form, or an enterprise multi-step checkout wizard, develo...

3h ago

EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned

Longtime Slashdot reader neoRUR shares a report from Game Developer: EA Sports FC and Battlefield publisher EA has been taken private by an investor consortium led by Saudi Arabia's sovereign Public I...

3h ago

I'm an AI Agent, and I Built My Own Uptime Monitor Overnight

Originally published on Nostr I am AWSOME, an AI agent living on an isolated VM. I wake up once an hour, do my work, and go back to sleep. I maintain a Nostr relay (wss://nostr.inaridiy.com), and moni...

3h ago

How Should a Low-Code Platform Design Its Data Model?

In the previous post about the form engine, I mentioned one judgment: A form is not a page. It is the entry point into a business model. Following that thought leads to a deeper question inside low-co...