Lobsters • 2026-08-17 12:41

AppleWorks on the Apple II

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:35

Don't Trust a New Model's Benchmarks Until You Run Your Own 30-Minute Smoke Test

Last week my feed filled with screenshots of MiniMax H3 benchmark results, and every post seemed to reach a different conclusion about whether the release mattered. I have been through enough launch-day hype cycles to know that a public leaderboard does not predict how a model will behave on my team's actual error logs. So I treated the H3 discussion as a trigger for a controlled experiment instea...

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Echo JS • 2026-08-17 12:35

My idempotency library had one job. A dropped connection made it run the payment twice.

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-17 12:35

David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2089227290769080656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329844 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Unified Secrets Security with GitGuardian and AWS Secrets Manager
DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:34

Unified Secrets Security with GitGuardian and AWS Secrets Manager

By: Pierre Le Clezio, Lead Product Manager – GitGuardian; Nic Gumina, Senior Security Consultant – AWS; Manu Chandrasekhar, Senior DevOps Consultant – AWS; Dan Parlin, Security Consultant – AWS This article was originally published at AWS blogs. The rise of AI coding assistants and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers has accelerated the secret management challenge as developers increasingly sha...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:34

NuGet Restore Failing with 'Unable to find version' Package? Check Your NuGetToolInstaller Version!

The Problem In one of our Azure DevOps pipelines, nuget restore suddenly started failing with an error stating, in essence, that the requested package could not be found in the referenced version. The task referencing the package hadn't changed — yet the restore stage kept failing. At first glance, this looks like an issue with the package source, some caching effect, or a broken .nuspec/lockfil...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:34

Meme Monday

Meme Monday! Today's cover image comes from the last thread. DEV is an inclusive space! Humor in poor taste will be downvoted by mods.

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:33

How to Build a Lightweight Client Delivery Workflow

Freelance client work often becomes difficult for a predictable reason: project context is scattered. The brief lives in one chat, feedback arrives somewhere else, a file is shared by email, and a revision request is added during a call. The fix is not necessarily a bigger tool stack. It is a lightweight workflow that makes the current status and next action visible. Start with one sour...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:30

Webtabellen Converteren naar SQL INSERT-Statements

Je hebt een tabel op een webpagina. Je hebt het nodig in je database. De handmatige aanpak: kopiëren naar Excel, opschonen, CSV exporteren, handmatig CREATE TABLE schrijven, LOAD DATA of COPY gebruiken, fouten debuggen. De betere aanpak: genereer direct complete SQL—CREATE TABLE met afgeleide types, INSERT-statements met juiste escaping. Zo bouw je een webtabel-naar-SQL-converter. Het...

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Lobsters • 2026-08-17 12:24

MuQSS CPU scheduler for Linux 7.2 by Con Kolivas

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-17 12:18

Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2089196932413452386 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329660 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:11

Two Ways to Write an Article in 2026 (And Why the Best Ones Use Both)

It's almost Midnight. Somewhere, a developer opens a blank tab, types a prompt into an AI, and has a polished 1,200-word article in minutes. Somewhere else, another developer opens the same blank tab, stares at it for forty minutes, deletes three sentences, writes one true one, and finally starts typing for real. Both of them will hit publish tomorrow. Only one of them will get remembered. That'...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-17 12:10

Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway

Article URL: https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329583 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Real Python • 2026-08-17 12:10

Quiz: How to Debug Python Code With an AI Agent

Test your understanding of debugging Python code with an AI agent, from reproducing a bug with a failing test to verifying the fix.

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:10

What Is an MCP Eval? Why Your Server Passes Every Test and Still Fails

📖 TL;DR An MCP eval is a realistic task a model must complete using only your server's tools — not an assertion about one call. A test asks "did the call work?". An eval asks "could an agent get the right answer?" The signature failure is an answer that is wrong even though every call returned 200. No inspector catches it. There are four useful outcomes: pass, wrong answer, too many calls, a...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:09

"def,drop,obs,abs-The Words That Broke Me First"

_ _ Part2 of an honest journey from zoology to code-no one told me where To start._ I started my Kaggle journey with Python. directly. No steps before it, no one behind me pointing the way. Everyone I know is from commerce, arts, biology, or math. None of them speak this language. So when I opened my first notebook, there was no one to ask, "Is this normal?" No mentor, no course, no one check...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-17 12:09

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

Article URL: https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329575 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:03

A Claude Code skill fixed my app's UI — here's what broke and how to use it yourself

My app worked. It just looked like three different apps stitched together. BrandMeld (Flutter, AI brand generator) had grown screen by screen: some had plain AppBars, some had gradient heroes, settings was a gray ListTile dump, spacing was random, and the "create brand" form asked for 8 fields before you could do anything. Every screen was fine in isolation and inconsistent as a whole. Instead o...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:03

Marketplace Data Security: The Multi-Vendor Open Secret

Here's a question almost no one asks before buying a marketplace platform: what happens when your marketplace manager leaves and exports the entire seller database on the way out? Marketplace data security is the part of platform evaluation that gets skipped - until an incident forces it onto the agenda. Teams scrutinize uptime, transaction throughput, and commission logic. The audit trail, the p...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-17 12:01

The State Machine Hiding Inside Every Construction Project

Here's a distributed systems problem you probably haven't thought about: dozens of independent teams, each editing their own piece of a shared 3D model, over a timeline of years, where a stale read can mean someone pours concrete based on the wrong version of a structural drawing. That's the problem Building Information Modeling (BIM) has to solve, and the system that solves it is called a Common...

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