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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

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Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

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Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash

Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.

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How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film

Jane Schoenbrun's latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit their first film, We're All Going to the Wor

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Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

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What Is a Harness?

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My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

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The Secret Behind Every Web Feature, No Matter How Complex, Reduces to Three Core Mechanics

When I started out as a frontend developer, every new feature felt like a completely different mountain to climb. A like button felt nothing like a shopping cart. A comment section felt completely unr

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Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

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AI Engineering for Web Developers: From Vibe Coding to Production

The End of 'Vibe Coding' For the past year, the industry has been enamored with 'vibe coding'—the act of throwing natural language prompts at an LLM and hoping the resulting code fits into

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Streamux: Full RFC 9113 in Go with C abi

Spent the last few weeks building an HTTP/2 server from scratch in Go. Full RFC 9113 - framing, HPACK, stream state machine, flow control, TLS enforcement, 145/146 h2spec tests passing. The fun part

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Excel Dynamic Arrays: FILTER, UNIQUE and SORT in One Formula

By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 8, 2026 By the end of this page you can pull a distinct list out of a column, extract every row matching a condition, sort a result without touching

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Excel Drop Down Lists and Data Validation, and the Paste That Removes Them

By Michael Nocito, data analyst · Published August 8, 2026 By the end of this page you can put a dropdown on a column in about a minute, keep its list somewhere that grows when the options grow, make

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I Audited My Own Battery Claim Against My Own Documentation. The Arithmetic Does Not Work.

Short answer: My Google Play listing promises the screen-off mode will "Save 10x battery life and keep your device cool while broadcasting." The only battery table I have ever published says the scre

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How Your Agent Writes Its First DSH Plugin

How Your Agent Writes Its First DSH Plugin Two of the plugins live on WhaleHarness right now — a store browser and a headless screenshot tool — were written by an agent, reviewed by an auto

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The Whales of Open Source: How Big Projects Swallow Small Ones (And When NOT to Build Solo)

In the open-source ecosystem, code doesn't float in a vacuum. It lives in a dense, hyper-competitive food chain. On one end, you have single-developer repositories built late at night with pure enth

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Building a Trip Planner with Vanilla JS and JSON: How I Structured Travel Sync's Data

Not every project needs a database and a backend framework. When I built Travel Sync, a trip planning and itinerary management web app, I used plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with JSON for data — no b

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I’m testing a faster way to research podcast guests before an interview

A podcast host recently told me that he prepares questions from the guest’s bio using ChatGPT. That works for the basics, but a bio does not show which stories the guest has repeated across other inte

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Concertos VR 2026: o futuro imersivo dos shows ao vivo

Concertos VR 2026: como o streaming imersivo está redefinindo o show ao vivo Introdução Você já imaginou estar no meio da plateia de um show de rock, sentir o pulsar dos graves e

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