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Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

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Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

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DEPENDENCY INVERSION PRINCIPLE

High-level modules should not depend on low-level modules. Both should depend on abstractions (interfaces). In practice, your business rule shouldn't know if you use MySQL, Stripe, or AWS. It should

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Building an On-Demand Coloring Book Generator with Google AI Studio & Imagen

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio. What I Built I built an On-Demand Coloring Book Studio, a web application that generates printable, custom black-

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AI & Automation H1 2026 Wrap-Up

This post is an adaptation of an internal wrap-up I shared at Playtomic to celebrate our AI journey in H1 2026. I've kept the public-facing industry insights and general learnings while removing inte

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The AI-Augmented Developer: A Practical Guide to Refactoring and TDD with Cursor

The narrative that "AI is going to replace full-stack engineers" has matured. In real-world software engineering, AI isn't replacing developers. Instead, it is increasingly replacing the tedious, rep

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PRINCÍPIO DA INVERSÃO DE DEPENDÊNCIA

Módulos de alto nível não devem depender de módulos de baixo nível. Ambos devem depender de abstrações (interfaces). Na prática, a sua regra de negócio não deve saber se você usa MySQL, Stripe ou AWS

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The antivirus said 'no malware detected'. It was sitting right there on the disk.

A real incident, and a lesson about green lights. Every command output, version number and CVE ID below is from the actual investigation. Nothing was invented for the narrative. It started

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NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope

Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Space announced yesterday that the Link spacecraft will

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Computing WHO growth percentiles on-device

Every baby tracker shows growth percentiles. "Your daughter is in the 72nd percentile for weight." It looks like a lookup — find the row for her age, compare, print a number. It isn't. And the ways i

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Background removal without a green screen is an underdetermined problem. Here's what the maths is doing.

Every pixel in a photograph of a person against a wall is a blend of two things. The compositing equation is the whole problem in one line: C = αF + (1 - α)B C is the pixel you can see. F is

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How AI headshot generators actually work: LoRA, 15 selfies, and the overfitting problem

Every AI headshot product works roughly the same way under the hood, and once you know the shape of it, most of the weird results stop being weird. You upload 10 to 20 selfies. Twenty minutes later y

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INTERFACE SEGREGATION PRINCIPLE

No class should be dependent on methods it doesn't need. An example would be a "Machine" interface that forces the print(), scan(), and fax() methods. Not every machine has these 3 methods. So we cr

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PRINCÍPIO DA SEGREGAÇÃO DE INTERFACES

Nenhuma classe deve ser dependente de métodos que não precisa. Um exemplo seria uma interface “Máquina”, que força os métodos print( ), scan( ) e fax( ). Nem toda máquina tem esses 3 métodos. Então

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AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack

The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investigating the breach.

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Four Numbers Across the Top Do More Than Four Charts

This article gives you the KPI row: a handful of big numbers across the top of a dashboard that tell the whole story before any chart is read. Four cells, four labels, and a reader who arrives cold kn

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I bought DJI’s banned camera — it was cheap and easy

As a kid, I always imagined the "black market" would be like the movies: Shady vendors hawking illicit goods along dusty streets. But if you want a banned DJI Osmo Pocket 4 or Pocket 4 Pro camera in t

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For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. 'Having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley," is an advantage, the firm believes.

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