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The vi family

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Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

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Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

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The soul of maintaining a new machine

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Building a Xiaohongshu (RedNote) E-commerce Scraper for RedShop Product Data

When Xiaohongshu (RedNote / Little Red Book / 小红书) launched RedShop — its US-facing e-commerce platform — in April 2026, I noticed every existing scraper on Apify only covered the social side: posts,

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7 Signs Your Data Quality Framework Is Broken

Most organizations have some version of a data quality framework. Fewer have one that works. The gap between having a framework and having a functioning one is wide, and it tends to widen quietly — th

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Turning Server Logs into Incident Summaries with Java and Groq

I built a small Java CLI that uses Groq’s LLM API to turn noisy server logs into structured incident summaries: root cause, severity, affected components, and suggested fixes. Introduction

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38% of MCP servers have no auth -- inside the OWASP MCP Top 10

I installed 14 MCP servers last month. Then I read the CVE list. I've been running MCP servers in production since late 2025 -- connecting Claude to my accounting tools, project trackers,

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I Tested 15 LLMs for Web Scraping and Built Heuristics Instead

The problem nobody talks about: 600KB of DOM When I started building a web scraper, the obvious move was to send the page to an LLM and ask it to extract the data. Simple, right? Wrong.

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Structure Before Bytes: How Metarc Beats tar+zstd on Real Code

tar+zstd is very hard to beat. So I stopped trying to beat it as a byte compressor. Instead, I tried something else: compress the structure first, then compress the bytes. That is the idea behin

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Two months into Sats Channel, and the hardest part of building hasn’t been the build

This is the post I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write yet, because the version of it I imagined writing was supposed to come after I’d figured something out. I have not figured something out. I’m wri

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What I Learned After Working with Real Construction Costs in Vietnam (And Why Most People Get It Wrong)

If you've never built a house in Vietnam, there's one thing you should know upfront: The biggest mistake isn't design, labor, or even contractors - it's misunderstanding material costs. After years

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From Scans to Structured Data: Converting Medical Reports to JSON with Pydantic & LLMs

Have you ever looked at a stack of physical medical reports and wished you could just "Ctrl+F" your health history? 📑 We’ve all been there. Every hospital has a different layout, different units, and

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TSP - Travelling Salesman Problem

Introduction I will talk about P vs NP, NP-complete, and NP-hard, define heuristics in computer science, Hamiltonian cycles, TSP and Metric TSP, approximation algorithms, and optimal vs su

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I built an uptime monitor in Rust because I hate paywalls for Webhooks

Hey DEV community! 👋 I recently got frustrated with standard monitoring tools. It feels like every tool out there puts simple integrations (like Discord, Slack, or Webhooks) behind a premium paywall.

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Balanceamento de Carga, o que é e qual sua importância ?

Load Balancing: por que ele é essencial em sistemas com muitos acessos? Em sistemas distribuídos, um dos grandes desafios é lidar com milhares de requisições simultâneas sem comprometer a performance

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Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch

The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.

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SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw

SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.

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Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year

The company is making a big bet that the swiping model is outdated and most matches never turn into actual dates. The company wants to fix that by redesigning profiles, changing how people interact, a

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Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.

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