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My evidence pipeline was saving Cloudflare block pages as evidence

I build a web service that preserves evidence of harassment on social platforms. The core feature is a single thing: automatically capture a real screenshot of the offending post. There was no substitute for it. I built an alternative that pulled the text through an API and rendered a tidy "eviden...

Renga 3 hours ago

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Hacker News · Technology

Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk

Article URL: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651 Points: 25 # Comments: 10

randycupertino 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

I Spent 3 Months Building a SaaS Nobody Used. Then a 10-Minute Chrome Extension Got 2,000 Users.

It was 2:15 AM on a Tuesday when I launched my dream project: an AI-powered reader dashboard. I had spent 90 days perfecting the tech stack: Next.js 14, Tailwind, Supabase auth, Stripe billing, PostgreSQL, and custom dark mode themes. I posted it on Twitter and Reddit, sat back, and waited for the...

Arbab Yousaf 3 hours ago

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The Guardian · World

Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones with message on UK wildfires

Many complained online that piercingly loud tone was ‘overreach’ while others lamented lack of action on decarbonisationOn Friday at 7pm, Thérèse Coffey was nine miles away from a nuclear power station when her phone made a loud, piercing and very worrying sound: it was a “severe” emergency alert. “...

Sammy Gecsoyler 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Your `if` statements are a database nobody can query

Somewhere in your codebase there is a line that looks like this: if (user.plan === 'enterprise' || user.tenantId === 'acme-corp') { // ... } Nobody remembers who wrote the second half of that condition. It has been there for two years. It is almost certainly still load-bearing. Here is t...

Pablo Albornoz Afanasiev 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Jan Sahay: Transforming Healthcare Access with an AI Voice Agent

Introduction Access to healthcare is still a challenge for millions of people, especially those who struggle with language barriers, limited digital literacy, lack of awareness, or difficulty navigating healthcare services. While smartphones and digital health platforms have made healthcare informa...

prathamesh desai 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Overlaying a design on a live page: four things that bit me

I spent the last few weeks building a Chrome extension that puts a design frame on top of a running web page so you can see where the implementation drifted. The idea is old — designers have been dropping semi-transparent mockups over their builds since Photoshop — but doing it inside a browser exte...

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DEV Community · Technology

Why Does Go Have Goroutines? Understanding Go’s Lightweight Concurrency

When I started exploring Go, one feature immediately stood out: go doSomething() Just adding go before a function call can run it concurrently. That got me thinking: what exactly is a goroutine, and why does Go need it? So, I decided to learn the basics. Here's what I found. 👇...

Ashitosh Lavhate 3 hours ago

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Ars Technica · Technology

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."

Eric Berger 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

I Built a RAG Pipeline in TypeScript Without LangChain — The Whole Thing in 200 Lines

Every RAG tutorial I found looked like this: const chain = RetrievalQAChain.fromLLM(model, vectorStore.asRetriever()); const res = await chain.call({ query: "what is this document about?" }); Twelve lines, a Pinecone key, a screenshot of it answering one question about one PDF, and a confid...

Apurwa-Anand 3 hours ago

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Hacker News · Technology

AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-virus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311445 Points: 15 # Comments: 4

pseudolus 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Building an AI Voice Agent for Bharat: My 10-Day Journey

Introduction For the past 10 days, I took part in the 10 Days of AI Voice Agents — #VoiceForBharat Edition challenge. During this challenge, I built an AI voice agent named Sadie. My goal was not just to make an AI that could talk. I wanted to build a voice agent that could understand users, reme...

Ayush Shinde | Full-Stack Developer (MERN) 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

I Built AnswerTrace . GitHub Discussions Analytics for Your README

I noticed GitHub profiles show a lot about code contributions, but not much about contributions through GitHub Discussions. So I built AnswerTrace. AnswerTrace analyzes public GitHub Discussions activity and turns it into a small SVG widget for your README. It currently shows: Accepted Answers...

Antonis Loukis 3 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Claude Code vs Cursor vs Windsurf in 2026: Which Agentic IDE Actually Ships Production Code

Claude Code vs Cursor vs Windsurf in 2026: Which Agentic IDE Actually Ships Production Code This article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review. Most teams choose agentic IDEs based on demo videos and feature lists instead of production realities. The...

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DEV Community · Technology

Run Claude Code for FREE on Your Machine Using OpenRouter

Tired of paying for Claude Pro just to get powerful AI coding help? I recently set this up and now run top-tier models right in my terminal — completely free on the free tier. Perfect for freelance web developers who want Claude-level intelligence for building projects, debugging, and client work w...

SOHAM CHAVAN 3 hours ago

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BBC News · World

Five injured, one critically, in shooting at Virginia State University

Multiple suspects were involved in the incident in the early hours of Saturday, the university said.

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DEV Community · Technology

I Used Sentry to Expose a Silent Data-Loss Bug with Zero Errors

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. 40 successful saves. 39 missing workspaces. The application did not crash. No exception was thrown. Every promise resolved. And that was exactly why this bug was dangerous. The front-pag...

Mir Shah 4 hours ago

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The Guardian · World

Alaska candidate for US Senate seat rejects Kamala Harris’s unsolicited support

Former VP sent fundraising appeal for Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign – with half of donations going to Harris’s organizationAlaska US Senate candidate Mary Peltola has rejected the support of Kamala Harris, her fellow Democrat, after the 2024 presidential candidate sent out a seemingly unsolicited...

Adam Gabbatt 4 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Cloud bills kept climbing from 24/7 AI development — I moved the decisions and the implementation to my own local LLMs and cut the cost

From late June into July 2026, I rebuilt the execution backbone of my development onto my own local large language models (LLMs). The trigger was cost. The more you hand development over to AI, the more every task-routing decision and every actual code generation gets sent to a cloud AI, each and e...

uehara 4 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

How to Ship a VS Code Extension That Wraps an Existing Web Tool

TLDR Bringing existing browser-based web tools into VS Code webview panels does not require rewriting your frontend codebase. VS Code webviews run on strict Content Security Policies, lack window.parent frames, and refuse to resolve relative file paths. You can wrap any web tool cleanly b...

Bonzai2Carn 4 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

Built a Blog App with Rails & PostgreSQL – Looking for Code Review!

Hey DEV community! 👋 I've been working on a Blog Application built with Ruby on Rails to practice backend architecture, clean code standards, and Rails idioms. I'm sharing the repository to get feedback, code reviews, and suggestions on how to make the codebase cleaner and more scalable....

SOHAM CHAVAN 4 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

mmy-css: An Ultra-Lightweight CSS Framework Under 1.2 KB

Most CSS frameworks ship dozens of kilobytes of unused rules. I built mmy-css — an ultra-lightweight CSS framework under 1.2 KB gzipped with zero dependencies. 🌟 Key Highlights 📦 Under 1.2 KB gzipped (~3.1 KB raw) 📐 Zero-Specificity Resets using :where() selectors 🔤 Fluid Typography...

Muhammad Maulana Yusuf 4 hours ago

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DEV Community · Technology

How to Review AI-Generated Tests: Seven Checks Before You Keep Them

Review AI-generated tests with seven checks. Name the user risk. Break the product. Check the final result. Change the data. Read the failure. Repeat the run. Then decide whether the test could stop a bad release. AI can write a clean test in seconds. The file may look finished. The names may sound...

Anton Gulin 4 hours ago

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The Verge · Technology

Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there. Cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding obsessively dissect pop songs, from the theory behind th...

Terrence O’Brien 4 hours ago

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