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DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:30

How a theory of leftover surprise changed a memory layer

Consciousness Might Not Look Like Anything If you are looking for consciousness in behavior, you may be looking at the wrong thing. The system most in contact with the world need not flinch, chatter, or otherwise announce that something happened. It may look, from the outside, as if nothing did. The obvious claim is the opposite: the most conscious being is the one whose internals get...

Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-18 12:23

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Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

Article URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-recording-of-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344654 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:23

Your verifier is probably lying to you about floats

Here is a promise that looks obviously true: fn add_twice(x: Float) -> Float ensures result == x + 0.2 { return x + 0.1 + 0.1 } Adding a tenth twice is the same as adding two tenths. Every algebra teacher you have ever had agrees. Most program verifiers agree too. They are wrong, and so is the promise. Velaris — a language I have been building — refuses to prove it, and hands...

Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-18 12:22

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Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

Article URL: https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344643 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:21

Community, Open Source and Rugby Culture - Lessons for Engineering Teams

In the last few posts we covered data, applications, AI and the hardware that sits on players. Today we step away from the technology itself and look at something softer but just as important, culture. Rugby has a strong, distinctive culture - one that values collective effort, respect, resilience and looking after your teammates. Many of the same principles that make a good rugby side also make a...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:18

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What 802.1X Actually Proves, and the Checkbox That Decides It

A company laptop joins the office network with the same credentials the user types into everything else, and nobody thinks about it again. The mechanism underneath is 802.1X, and it has a specific asymmetry worth knowing: it is very good at proving who the client is, and it proves who the network is only if the client was configured to check. That configuration is one screen most deployments skip....

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:15

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MAI-Thinking-1 Is Now in Foundry — Here's What It Means If You Write C#

Every time Microsoft ships a new model into Foundry, I ask myself the same boring-but-important question: does this change anything for the way I actually write code? Most of the time the answer is "cool demo, doesn't affect my day job." This time it's different. MAI-Thinking-1 — Microsoft's first reasoning model — just went into public preview in Microsoft Foundry. It's not a chat model with a "...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:15

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Agent-Scoped Memory in Deep Agents: Sharing Memory Across Conversations

In the previous article, we looked at user-scoped memory, where each user gets their own private long-term memory. But there is another useful pattern: Agent-scoped memory. Instead of giving every user a separate memory, we can give one shared memory to an entire agent. This is useful when the memory represents something about the agent itself rather than about a specific user. What ...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:14

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Build a Tiny Tool-Result Gatekeeper Before You Trust an Agent's 'Done'

Last Tuesday a model told me it had created a file. The response looked perfect: done, exit_code: 0, a believable path. Then I opened the file. It existed, yes. It was empty. The model was not lying in a human sense—it was guessing what a successful tool result should look like. But the workspace told a different story. So the question I kept turning over was simple: how do you turn an agent's st...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:14

A Free Model Returned Markdown That NVDA Read as One Endless Sentence: Normalizing LLM Output Before It Reaches the Live Region

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HackerNoon • 2026-08-18 12:13

Space Raises $2.4M Led by a16z Speedrun to Build an AI-Native Filesystem

Space Raises $2.4M Led by a16z Speedrun to Build an AI-Native Filesystem

Space raised $2.4M led by a16z Speedrun to build an AI-native filesystem that streams byte ranges, letting humans and agents open terabytes using zero disk.

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:13

How to Audit a npm Package for Malware in 10 Minutes

You are about to run npm install some-package and hand a stranger's code full access to your machine, your environment variables, and your CI pipeline. Last year alone, hundreds of malicious packages were caught on npm, many of them typosquats of popular libraries that stole credentials the moment they were installed. This is a 10-minute manual audit workflow for any npm package you do not fully...

Real Python • 2026-08-18 12:10

Quiz: Arduino With Python: How to Get Started

Check your understanding of using Arduino with Python. Practice setting up circuits, using the Firmata protocol, and controlling inputs and outputs.

Real Python • 2026-08-18 12:10

Quiz: Working With Python's deque

Test your understanding of Python's deque. Practice fast appends and pops at both ends, building queues and stacks, and setting maxlen.

Hacker News • 2026-08-18 12:09

Show HN: Dreadsweeper – Minesweeper Raycasted

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DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:06

Las capas de cascada no reemplazaron la especificidad. Reemplazaron la negociación.

También disponible en Inglés. El problema La última entrega terminó con una promesa: existe un mecanismo real para definir límites, nativo del navegador, sin necesidad de procesos de compilación. La mayoría de las explicaciones sobre este mecanismo lo describen como una herramienta de especificidad; una forma de escribir selectores más débiles y aun así ganar el conflicto. Es cierto. ...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:05

How I Built a Kiro Crew App in 5 Minutes - Full Tutorial With Code

How I Built a Kiro Crew App in 5 Minutes - Full Tutorial With Code

Parts 1-4 showed you what Kiro Crew can do. Investigate incidents. Automate weekly toil. Block dangerous commands. All using the built-in agent. Introducing Kiro Crew: AWS's Open-Source AI Agent Orchestrator Solves persistent cross-session memory limits ...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:04

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The Marketplace Platform Transition: From Experiment to Core Business

Most retailers approach a marketplace platform decision as an experiment. The logic is sound: expand assortment without inventory risk, test which categories pull demand, avoid capital commitment before the market proves itself. The problem is that signing a multi-year vendor contract and integrating across PIM, logistics, payments, and customer service is not a test. That is a strategic commitmen...

DEV Community • 2026-08-18 12:04

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Cascade Layers Didn't Replace Specificity — They Replaced Negotiation

Also available in Español The Problem The last piece ended on a promise: a real mechanism for boundaries exists, native to the browser, no build step required. Most explanations of that mechanism describe it as a specificity tool — a way to write weaker selectors and still win the conflict. That's true. It's also the shallow read. Here's the deeper one. Before Cascade Layers, styling...