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CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production

Score: 78 | Comments: 15

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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

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Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus

Score: 28 | Comments: 5

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The mail sent to a video game publisher

Score: 72 | Comments: 1

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Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go

Score: 160 | Comments: 61

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Amazon taps Sweden’s Einride for its electric big rigs

The agreement comes just as Einride is finalizing a merger with blank-check company Legato Merger Corp. to go public.

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Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO

Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale.

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CVE-2026-21520: Why Patching a Prompt Injection Doesn't Fix the Architecture

Microsoft patched CVE-2026-21520 on January 15, 2026. Three months later, the headline still ran: "The data exfiltrated anyway." That phrase deserves more attention than it's gotten. This isn't a sto

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Why Debugging Is a More Important Skill Than Solving Algorithms

Most coding platforms train you to solve clean problems. You’re given a neat description. Clear inputs. Clear outputs. A well-defined goal. Real software development rarely looks like that. Instead

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I Added a Paragraph to My AI Character's System Prompt. She Invented a Different One.

I spent years in the gaming industry learning that characters are the reason people come back. Features rot. Graphics age. A character people can't stop thinking about outlasts every mechanic. Then I

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I replaced my boilerplate's setup wizard with a prompt

When someone clones a SaaS boilerplate, they spend the next 3 hours clicking through provider dashboards, dropping env vars into .env, and debugging why pnpm dev can't connect to their database. Every

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How I handle Claude API rate limits without losing user messages (with code)

How I handle Claude API rate limits without losing user messages (with code) Rate limits hit at the worst possible moment. Your user is mid-conversation, they send a message, and instead of

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Implementing a Centralized Metrics Layer with dbt and a Semantic Layer

Why centralizing metrics stops dashboard wars Design patterns in dbt: atomic models and metric definitions Testing, lineage, governance that make metrics trustworthy How to expose a semantic layer so

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Building a Time-Series Storage Engine in Go That Handles Billions of Data Points

As a best-selling author, I invite you to explore my books on Amazon. Don't forget to follow me on Medium and show your support. Thank you! Your support means the world! Imagine you're trying to s

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What Surprised Me About Building a Python RAG Pipeline with Open-Source LLMs

If you've ever tried using ChatGPT to answer questions about your company's docs or codebase, you know the pain: hallucinations, half-right answers, or just plain nonsense. Retrieval-Augmented Generat

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Building Delaware: The Backend of Everything.

Building Delaware: The Backend of Everything Most developers don’t think about backend systems until they break. That’s the problem. Modern software is built on layers of abstraction—fram

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I Built an AI Gateway from Scratch (So You Don't Have To)

TL;DR I built a local AI gateway using Envoy, Rust, and Kubernetes to understand how AI traffic actually works. It broke multiple times. I fixed it. I learned a lot. Why I Did Th

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Engineers Don't Want to Search Logs. They Want to Know What Broke.

A working engineer's argument that the observability stack has been solving the wrong problem for fifteen years. It's 7 pm on a Friday and production is on fire. Your weekend is off to a great star

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Splatoon Raiders hits the Switch 2 in July

The squid kids will be back this summer. Nintendo announced this morning that Splatoon Raiders, a single-player spinoff of its competitive shooter series, will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 on July

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