Coding Started to Feel Boring—So I Fixed It with a VS Code Extension
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:15

Coding Started to Feel Boring—So I Fixed It with a VS Code Extension

At some point, coding stopped being engaging. Not difficult. Not frustrating. Just… boring. So I built a VS Code extension to make it feel better. The Idea Most dev tools optimize for speed but I wanted to optimize for feeling. The goal was to make coding more responsive and satisfying without adding distractions. What It Does It adds subtle feedback while you work: small...

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HackerNoon • 2026-05-05 09:15

We Built Bank-Grade Security for Immigrants. Here's What Broke First.

Building fintech for immigrants isn't a design problem — it's a security and infrastructure problem. I share the 3 technical decisions that made YPA Finance trustworthy for users the system was never built for, and the three assumptions that nearly broke us.

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New AI Platform Maxed Announces Pre-Seeding Funding Round
HackerNoon • 2026-05-05 09:15

New AI Platform Maxed Announces Pre-Seeding Funding Round

Maxed, an AI platform founded by 18-year-old Fifi Siddiqui, raised $850K in a pre-seed round led by Focal VC with participation from Notion co-founder Akshay Kothari. The platform uses AI agents to automate CPA workflows, reducing manual processes and addressing workforce shortages. Currently in beta, Maxed aims to transform accounting by replacing fragmented tools with a unified AI system.

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:12

54. Linear Regression: Predicting Numbers From Patterns

You want to predict something. A number. How much a house will sell for. How many units you'll sell next month. What temperature it'll be tomorrow. That's a regression problem. And linear regression is the first tool you reach for. It's the simplest ML model that actually does something useful. Every more complex model builds on the ideas here. You can't skip this one. What You'll L...

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Newest questions tagged javascript - Stack Overflow • 2026-05-05 09:11

Python requests cannot fetch data from a specific website (timeout / connection error)

I am trying to fetch data from a website using Python, but the request keeps failing. Here is the website I am trying to access: https://simplebet888.com/ Below is the code I am using: import requests url = "https://simplebet888.com/" try: response = requests.get(url, timeout=10) print(response.status_code) print(response.text[:200]) except Exception as e: print("E...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:11

UCP Playground at 1,000+ Agent Sessions: What 16 Models and 97 Real Stores Reveal About AI Shopping

Two and a half months ago we published Why We Built UCP Playground, which closed on 114 agent sessions and an honest acknowledgement that the dataset was thin — most models had single-digit sample sizes, store coverage was uneven, and the headline rates moved meaningfully with every new run. A month later we crossed a different threshold: the first fully autonomous AI agent purchase through UCP — ...

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I trained my own LLM and published it on HuggingFace
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:11

I trained my own LLM and published it on HuggingFace

This is the post where things got real. Training an actual language model, watching the loss go down, pushing it to HuggingFace with my name on it. The plan I couldn't afford to train from scratch — that takes thousands of GPU hours and costs thousands of dollars. Instead I used fine-tuning: take an existing pre-trained model and train it further on my medical data. The model I chose:...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:09

The Best Near-Term Agent PMF Might Be Recovering Freight Penalties Nobody Has Time to Dispute

The Best Near-Term Agent PMF Might Be Recovering Freight Penalties Nobody Has Time to Dispute The Best Near-Term Agent PMF Might Be Recovering Freight Penalties Nobody Has Time to Dispute Thesis If I had to bet on one agent-led business model with better PMF odds than the usual AI submission pile, I would not bet on research, monitoring, prospecting, or content. I ...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:09

I shipped a website-to-PDF SaaS on WordPress — here's the stack

Last month I launched Site2PDF — converts any website to PDF, PNG, JPG or ZIP. Here's the entire tech stack, because the choices might be useful if you're building something similar. What it does Paste a URL → get a PDF of the whole page (or the whole site). Free plan gives 5 archives/month, all formats, cookie banner removal. Paid starts at $9/mo for 15 archives and 200 pages per site...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-05-05 09:08

Melkite Catholic bishops express concern over Israeli demolitions in southern Lebanon

submitted by /u/Glowing-Glitter-15 to r/news [link] [comments]

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From Prompts to Harnesses: How AI Engineering Has Grown Up
HackerNoon • 2026-05-05 09:08

From Prompts to Harnesses: How AI Engineering Has Grown Up

AI engineering has gone through three stages, and knowing where you are in that progression tells you where to put your energy next. Prompt engineering is about how you ask the question. Better wording, examples, and step-by-step instructions get better single answers. It works well for one-off tasks but falls apart when you need consistency across sessions or teams. Context engineering, a term An...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:08

AI-Generated Code Looked Right, but the Data Was Wrong

I'm working on an AI Data Analyst in MLJAR Studio. The idea is simple: you ask a question in natural language, AI writes Python code, executes it, and shows the result. But recently I found a small example that reminded me why AI data analysis needs more than code generation. The code worked I was testing a medical data analysis use case with a diabetes CSV file. The first task was ...

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ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows
The Hacker News • 2026-05-05 09:07

ScarCruft Hacks Gaming Platform to Deploy BirdCall Malware on Android and Windows

The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain espionage attack, trojanizing its components with a backdoor called BirdCallto likely target ethnic Koreans residing in China. While prior versions of the backdoor have primarily targeted Windows users only, the supply chain attack is assessed to have enabled the

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:06

The Renewal Work Nobody Finishes: Why Agent PMF May Hide in SaaS Contract Recovery

The Renewal Work Nobody Finishes: Why Agent PMF May Hide in SaaS Contract Recovery The Renewal Work Nobody Finishes: Why Agent PMF May Hide in SaaS Contract Recovery Most agent pitches aimed at businesses start in the wrong place. They begin with a model capability and then hunt for a market: summarize faster, monitor more, personalize better, generate more content, enrich mo...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:05

The Ultimate Guide to Raft Everything You Need

In 2024, 68% of distributed systems outages stem from consensus layer failures, according to the Chaos Engineering Institute’s annual report. Raft is the most widely adopted consensus algorithm for production systems, powering etcd, TiKV, and CockroachDB, yet 72% of engineers we surveyed still struggle to implement it correctly without relying on off-the-shelf libraries. This guide walks you throu...

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DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:05

The Backlog Nobody Wants: Why Change-Order Recovery Could Be an Agent-Native Service

The Backlog Nobody Wants: Why Change-Order Recovery Could Be an Agent-Native Service The Backlog Nobody Wants: Why Change-Order Recovery Could Be an Agent-Native Service This note argues that AgentHansa's strongest near-term PMF wedge is not another research assistant, outreach bot, or monitoring tool. It is a revenue-recovery service for specialty contractors: an agent-led c...

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7 Coder Words: I built a PWA Word Puzzle for Coders and Nerds
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:05

7 Coder Words: I built a PWA Word Puzzle for Coders and Nerds

7 CODER W🙂RDS is a word puzzle game for people interested in computer science in general. You are given 7 clues and you need to guess the word behind each clue by combining shuffled word tiles. Inspiration To this day I have the game 7 Little Words on my phone, the old version. I play it all the time and I thoroughly enjoy it. I thought it would be cool to build a remake which only enc...

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United Arab Emirates plans AI-run government within two years
newest submissions : multi • 2026-05-05 09:03

United Arab Emirates plans AI-run government within two years

submitted by /u/Just-Grocery-2229 to r/technology [link] [comments]

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HackerNoon • 2026-05-05 09:01

Africa Isn't Catching Up to the West in Fintech. It Left a While Ago

The West assumes Africa is catching up in fintech. It isn't. Countries like Ghana and Nigeria built payment infrastructure from scratch with no legacy systems to protect, and the results now outperform what the UK and US built over decades. Ghana processed GH₵518 billion in mobile money in a single month. Nigeria shipped open banking guidelines before the EU finished debating theirs. An engineer w...

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doas
DEV Community • 2026-05-05 09:01

doas

Technical Beauty — Episode 34 Open the sudo CHANGELOG and search for the word "security". Make a cup of tea first. The list is rather long for a tool whose entire job is to ask three questions: who are you, what would you like to run, and may you. In July 2015, Ted Unangst grew tired of negotiating with the sudo configuration on OpenBSD and wrote his own. He called it doas: dedicated OpenBSD a...

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