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Carl's Required Reading

Score: 195 | Comments: 24

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SupererDuperer

Score: 128 | Comments: 27

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Trump blames Tim Walz for water hacks even though it’s probably Iran

The FBI, the EPA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have stopped short of officially blaming Iran for a spate of cyberattacks on Minnesota's water systems, but consensus

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Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here’s every company it’s using to do it

Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the list and the latest on the partnerships.

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The Verge’s 2026 back-to-school shopping guide

Knowing exactly what your student needs for the school year ahead is next to impossible. Sure, you'll probably nail the essentials, but there will likely be a few items you forgot to buy, or didn't th

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Apps that help you break free from doomscrolling and get active

If you’re looking to cut back on screen time and get a little more active, here’s a roundup of the apps that might help.

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What’s the best handheld mini fan?

From premium Shark and Dyson offerings to random Amazon devices, these mini fans will make your sweaty summer a little more managable.

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You could be taking way better photos on your phone

Your smartphone photos can look way better. If you're willing to put in a little extra work, use third party apps and spend a bit of time editing, it's possible to take photos that - under the right c

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Spec-driven development with AI agents: constitutions, checkpoints, and handoffs

AI coding agents are strangely lopsided. Hand one a well-scoped task and it writes better code, faster, than I do. Hand it a large feature, the kind that takes days and touches a dozen files across se

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Software EcoAudit

I Built a Building Energy Audit Software That Automatically Generates Professional PDF Reports Hello, Dev Community! 👋 My name is Ing Dr Sunny, and I am the CEO of BTECE (BAACK TECHNOLOGY ENERGY AND

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Google kills Earth AI generator after one day

Score: 10 | Comments: 4

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ChatGPT Calendar Integrations Point to Personalized Daily Briefings, Not a New Family Feature

ChatGPT's calendar integrations could make a personalized morning briefing a practical workflow, including one that summarizes a family's upcoming events and turns them into audio-ready material. But

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The Mermaid Mask is a perfect vacation murder mystery

The Mermaid Mask, the next point-and-click game from Tangle Tower developer SFB Games, has everything you could ask for in a great murder mystery. It starts with a compelling setup: The captain of a s

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Beyond GET and POST: Why the New HTTP QUERY Method (RFC 10008) Matters for Modern APIs

For as long as most of us have built web applications, our data retrieval options have felt like a constant architectural compromise. When designing a search endpoint, a complex filter panel, or a de

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A Practical MCP Server Health Check: 6 Signals Before You Install

An MCP server can give an AI assistant access to a filesystem, browser, database, API, or internal service. That makes installation less like adding a bookmark and more like approving a new integratio

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How I Cut AI Transcription Costs Below $0.10/Hour with AWS Spot Instances and Whisper Large-v3 Turbo

A deep dive into building a cost-optimized, self-hosted AI transcription pipeline on AWS - using Spot Instances, SQS queue-based autoscaling, and Whisper Large-v3 Turbo - that beats the OpenAI Whisper

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Lighthouse’s New Baseline Features Audit: What Developers Should Do With It

You ship a layout that looks clean in Chrome. A week later Safari users report a broken filter panel, or Firefox drops a CSS feature your design system assumed was safe. The Performance score on PageS

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معرفی SequelizeDotNet: فلسفه‌ی Database-First سکوئلایز، این‌بار در دات‌نت

یک ORM دیتابیس-محور و مبتنی بر DDL صریح برای دات‌نت — Typeهای emit‌شده در runtime، eager loading بدون JOIN، اعلان‌های push مبتنی بر CDC، و تولید GraphQL/OpenAPI مستقیماً از schema. اگه با Sequelize.j

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jenkins pipeline for Github cloning and building

After setting up Jenkins and creating my first Declarative Pipeline, the next step was preparing my machine to build Docker images. Since my pipeline will eventually clone code from GitHub, build a D

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My Publish Script Truncates Tags to 4. My MCP Tool That Does the Same Job Never Learned That Rule.

This repo has two completely separate code paths that create a DEV.to article. One is publish_devto.py, a standalone script the scheduled publishing routine calls directly. The other is create_article

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