DEV Community • 2026-08-13 17:05

I Stopped Scraping Business Directories and Built an MCP Server on Official Registry Data

I Stopped Scraping Business Directories and Built an MCP Server on Official Registry Data For a long time I built B2B lead-generation tools the way everyone does: scrape a directory, fight the anti-bot, re-scrape when the layout changes, pray the data is current. Then I found out the Romanian government publishes the entire company registry as open data — 4.2 million firms, refreshed mo...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-13 17:05

Mistral OCR 4.1

Article URL: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288889 Points: 24 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 17:04

An empty result is not an all clear

An infrastructure audit runs across your account and comes back with two findings on S3. You fix both, close the ticket, and move on. What the report did not tell you is that the role running it lacks s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration. Fourteen buckets returned AccessDenied on that call. The tool caught the rejection, wrote encrypted: false, and moved on to the next bucket. Some of those fourteen are...

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Product Hunt — The best new products, every day • 2026-08-13 17:04

Freebuff

Free coding agents to kill Claude, Cursor, Replit, and Devin Discussion | Link

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-13 17:02

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288847 Points: 31 # Comments: 7

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 17:01

Building a Safe Proxy Health Check in Node.js: Timeouts, Retries, and Secret-Safe Logs

Proxy checks often start as a one-line HTTP request. That is enough to prove that something responded, but it is not enough to operate a proxy reliably. A useful health check should answer four questions: Did the request leave through the expected proxy? How long did the full request take? Is the failure temporary or does it require a configuration change? Can the result be logged without expos...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:59

Multi region deployment with Terraform modules

The problem I was managing infrastructure across multiple regions a handful of virtual machines, one per region, each running the same service. The Terraform setup had grown the way these things usually do: when I needed a VM in a new region, I copied the folder for an existing region, renamed a few things, and adjusted the values that were different (location, network ranges, naming)....

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:48

AI Governance 101: What ML Practitioners Actually Need to Know

AI regulation isn't abstract policy anymore. If you're building systems that touch hiring, credit, healthcare, or law enforcement, there are now legal requirements attached to your model's behavior — and the penalties are real. Here's what actually matters for practitioners, without the fluff. The EU AI Act: risk tiers, not blanket rules Adopted in 2024, the EU AI Act is the first comp...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:48

Letting an AI ask 'what shipped in this field this week?'

Ask an assistant about recent developments and you get one of two things: whatever was in its training data, or the top few web search results. What you cannot ask is the thing you actually want — "what came out in Rust tooling in the last two weeks" — scoped to a field, across the sources that cover it. Those sources exist. They are RSS feeds. They are just not reachable from an AI tool. So I b...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:47

How I Built a Complete Web Studio Site in 5 Days (with AI Chat, Blog, and Analytics)

How I Built a Complete Web Studio Site in 5 Days Building a website is easy. Building a complete website with AI chat, multi-language support, real-time analytics, and SEO optimization in 5 days? That's a different challenge. Here's exactly how I did it. Day 1: Structure and Design Tech Stack Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, Vanilla JavaScript Backend: Python (Flask) on...

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Hacker News • 2026-08-13 16:45

Show HN: My Claude subscription did $5,868 of API-equivalent work last month

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:45

Google Search Console Platform Properties Bring Social and Video Search Data Into View

Google Search Console has expanded beyond websites with Platform Properties, a property type for connecting eligible Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts. The change gives creators, publishers, social teams and agencies a direct way to examine how content hosted on those platforms appears across Google Search, Discover and Google News. The important shift is not simply that YouTube content c...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:45

AI Operating System for Organizations

I've built an AI Operating System for Organizations that turns scattered data like GitHub commits, pull requests, and issues into a connected graph. This allows teams to ask questions like "Who changed this file last week?" or "Which issues were fixed in the last release?" without having to manually search through different tools. The system uses Python, FastAPI for the API, Neo4j for the graph d...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:45

Google Play Contacts Policy 2027 for Capacitor

Google Play's new Contacts Permissions policy takes effect on January 27, 2027. Apps that target Android 17 (API level 37) or later may only declare READ_CONTACTS if the Android Contact Picker cannot cover their core functionality. If your Capacitor app only lets users pick a contact, you need to drop the permission, and with the Capacitor Contacts plugin that means passing the property option to ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:44

7 AI Coding Mistakes Developers Keep Making

Why the smartest tool in your stack still needs a skeptical human behind it I review a lot of code that didn't start as code. It started as a prompt. And most of the time, you can tell. Not because the output is bad, AI assistants write clean, readable, often elegant code, but because of what's missing around it: the questioning, the edge case paranoia, the "wait, what happens if this i...

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Hacker News • 2026-08-13 16:39

Show HN: OpenAI network checker using 31 browser and IP signals

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The five things I never let my AI do
DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:38

The five things I never let my AI do

I handed a flock of AI agents the keys to my company. The reason it still runs is a short list of things they are never allowed to do without me. Most of the writing about AI agents right now is about giving them more: more tools, more autonomy, more of your workflow. I run a handful of small apps as one person and a flock of AI agents, and the single most important part of that setup isn't any...

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Cascading Style Sheets • 2026-08-13 16:37

colorscheme CSS API for Catppuccin and Nord

I made a project where multible CSS files go into 1 file with a build script written in Lua and SH submitted by /u/Special-Lawyer-7069 [link] [comments]

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:32

Tailscale's 6-Month Hunt for a 16-Year-Old SQLite Bug: A Debugging Playbook for Java Teams

"Our uptime was pretty shaky." That is how Alex Chan, an engineer at Tailscale, opens the postmortem of the strangest database incident his team has ever chased (the writeup, 1,141 points and 217 comments on Hacker News at the time of writing). Over six months, a single bug corrupted shard databases across their control plane 19 separate times. No pattern. No obvious cause. No way to reproduce it ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-13 16:32

Building a Zero-Allocation, Nanosecond Distributed Rate Limiter in Go

Rate limiting seems simple on paper until your microservice hits 100k requests/second, Redis experiences a transient network hiccup, or an attacker spoofs their X-Forwarded-For header to bypass your limits entirely. While building high-throughput services in Go, I noticed that many existing rate-limiting libraries suffer from three major issues: Global Lock Contention: Single sync.Mutex archite...

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