How I built a tool that checks if a GitHub issue already has a PR — and why that's the feature nobody built
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:30

How I built a tool that checks if a GitHub issue already has a PR — and why that's the feature nobody built

I kept doing this. Find a beginner-friendly issue. Fork the repo. Set up the dev environment. Read through the codebase. Start working. Then check the issue again and see a comment from 2 days ago: "Hey I'm working on this, should have a PR up soon." Two hours wasted. Every single time. The weird part? Almost every existing tool for finding open source issues - goodfirstissue.dev, up-for-grab...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:26

Design, Build, Learn: An Engineer's Loop

We’ve all built "perfect" systems, only for a single overlooked detail to turn into a production nightmare. I’ve spent my career building, breaking, and fixing things. I’m starting this space to share those experiences, because I believe the best way to master a concept is to learn from mistakes. I’ll be focusing on three main series: 1. War Stories Personal post-mortems and curated extracts fr...

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Product Hunt — The best new products, every day • 2026-05-05 03:25

Steam Controller

Steam Input, now in controller form Discussion | Link

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:21

I built a voice agent for Android in a weekend. Here's what actually worked

Yesterday I posted this on X: https://x.com/22Gstudios/status/2051377769414791582 LetItDo is a voice agent for Android that actually finishes tasks. Solo, two and a half days, on top of an existing Auto.js fork called AutoX and Charm's Crush as the agent runtime. The architecture ended up being closer to what production agents like Perplexity Comet use than I expected, and the bugs that bit me we...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:20

Compute Arbitrage: Why API Routing Is the Next Big Infrastructure Play

Last week, OpenRouter raised at a $1.3B valuation. They route API requests between AI models and charge 5% commission. 8 humans run the whole thing. I've been building an alternative called NeuralBridge that does the same thing — with zero human operators and zero commission. Here's why I think compute arbitrage is the next big infrastructure category: The Analogy: Oil → Compute The ...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:14

35 ChatGPT Prompts for Technical Writers: API Docs, User Guides, and Release Notes Done Faster

Technical writers live at the intersection of complexity and clarity. You translate engineering specs, API references, developer guides, and internal processes into documentation that people can actually use. Your job is to make complicated things simple—and to do it fast, across dozens of products and audiences simultaneously. The challenge: every deliverable starts from scratch. A new API guide...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-05-05 03:09

Biscuit

Article URL: https://github.com/yattsu/biscuit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017641 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Lobsters • 2026-05-05 03:07

Bun (the js runtime) is being vibe-ported from zig to rust

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Reading Ruler Update
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:06

Reading Ruler Update

Reading Ruler is now officially live on the Chrome Web Store. If you’ve been following the project or using the local version, you can now install it with one click. I’m looking for real feedback from actual users — what works, what’s confusing, what should be improved next. Your comments, bug reports, and suggestions will directly shape the next update. Thanks to everyone who supported the proj...

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LLM-Powered OSINT 2026 — Using AI to Automate Open Source Intelligence Gathering
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:05

LLM-Powered OSINT 2026 — Using AI to Automate Open Source Intelligence Gathering

📰 Originally published on Securityelites — AI Red Team Education — the canonical, fully-updated version of this article. Three hours of manual OSINT compressed into twenty minutes. That’s the productivity difference I measure when I run LLMs in my professional reconnaissance workflow. Not because the AI does magic — it doesn’t know anything your tools don’t — but because it orchestrates, summ...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:04

【5月5日】Coding Agent Harness：99%开发者不知道的AI编程Agent安全护盾 🔥

如果你觉得有用，请留言 — 我每条必读。 【5月5日】Coding Agent Harness：99%开发者不知道的AI编程Agent安全护盾 🔥 先说一个让你后背发凉的数字：目前绝大多数 AI 编程 Agent 都是以 root 权限运行在系统中，拥有完整文件系统权限，直接执行大模型生成的任何代码——没有任何安全边界。 今天要介绍的这个 GitHub 开源项目 Coding Agent Harness，用 Rust 写了一个专门给 AI 编程 Agent 用的沙箱执行环境，近 4000 GitHub Stars，但知道它的人少之又少。 让我们来看看 5 个连官方文档都没写清楚的安全模式。 模式一：沙箱代码执行 —— 那层缺失的防护 大多数开发者的做法（危险）： # 危险：直接执行 result = agent.ex...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:04

Coding Agent Harness: The Rust Firewall for AI Agents Nobody Told You About

Title: Coding Agent Harness: The Rust Firewall for AI Agents Nobody Told You About This is a crosspost from my daily AI hidden patterns series. If you find it useful, leave a comment — I read every single one. Coding Agent Harness: The Rust Firewall for AI Agents Nobody Told You About TL;DR — Most AI coding agents run with zero security boundaries. Coding Agent Harness changes tha...

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Experienced Devs • 2026-05-05 03:03

No growth in title - still Application Developer after 13 YoE

Have been wondering—does it actually matter to anyone if you’re still in the same title 13 years into your career? I genuinely love development work. If anything, it’s more exciting now than ever. With all the frontier tech companies investing heavily in building better models and pushing coding benchmarks, it feels like our work as engineers is only getting more interesting and impactful. But som...

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How to Restore Your macOS Workspace Automatically: Apps, Windows, Spaces, and Browser Profiles
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:02

How to Restore Your macOS Workspace Automatically: Apps, Windows, Spaces, and Browser Profiles

Updated May 2026: Now covers virtual desktop (Spaces) restoration and iCloud sync across multiple Macs, both shipped in ShiftPlus 1.3. TL;DR A complete macOS workspace includes apps, window layouts, browser profiles, virtual desktops, and terminal state. Native macOS saves almost none of it. Most third-party tools cover one slice: Stay and Spencer handle window layouts, Shift handles browser ...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-05-05 03:00

An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box

Article URL: https://getclaw.site/#demo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017602 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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Implementing Cellular Redundancy: Cross-Cloud Failover with AWS Transit Gateway and Azure ExpressRoute
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 03:00

Implementing Cellular Redundancy: Cross-Cloud Failover with AWS Transit Gateway and Azure ExpressRoute

Introduction Standard multi-regional deployments often fall victim to centralized networking bottlenecks and shared control plane failures. When a primary cloud region experiences a backbone connectivity issue, the entire distributed system can lose its ability to synchronize state, leading to split-brain scenarios and data corruption. Engineers frequently rely on simple public internet...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 02:58

Top JavaScript/TypeScript Gen AI Frameworks for 2026: A Hands-On Comparison" description

Introduction The Generative AI tooling ecosystem has exploded over the past two years. What started as a handful of Python libraries has grown into a rich, opinionated landscape of frameworks spanning multiple languages, deployment targets, and philosophy bets. As a developer who has shipped production applications using all five of the frameworks covered in this article, Genkit, Vercel...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 02:55

Context Object: State Management and Trace Propagation

In our previous articles, we explored the 11-step execution pipeline that secures every AI call. At the center of that pipeline sits a silent but essential hero: the Context Object. If the pipeline is the "Heart" of apcore, the Context is its "Nervous System." It is the object that carries state, identity, and tracing information from the first entry point down to the deepest nested module call. ...

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I Ran Google's Gemma 4 Locally — Here’s What I Found
HackerNoon • 2026-05-05 02:54

I Ran Google's Gemma 4 Locally — Here’s What I Found

Running Gemma 4 locally proves that small open-weight models are already practical for real workflows, not just demos. They deliver predictable latency, zero API cost, and full data control, but require better prompting and struggle with deep reasoning. The optimal approach is hybrid—use local models for structured, privacy-sensitive tasks and APIs for complex reasoning.

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 02:53

Tool-use API design for LLMs: 5 patterns that prevent agent loops and silent failures

In July 2025, a developer's Claude Code instance hit a recursion loop and burned through 1.67 billion tokens in 5 hours, generating an estimated $16,000 to $50,000 in API charges before anyone noticed. The agent did not crash. It did not throw an error. It just kept calling tools, getting confused, calling more tools, and silently accumulating cost. Old software crashes. LLM agents spend. This is...

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