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From Query Access to Root of the Database: Inside the MarkLogic Privilege Escalation Chain

From Query Access to Root of the Database: Inside the MarkLogic Privilege Escalation Chain Privilege escalation is rarely a single step. In MarkLogic Server before the October 2026 fixes, several vulnerabilities offered starting points that were unusually close to the finish line. Vulnerability overview The bulletin fixed 31 vulnerabilities across MarkLogic Server. Three carry CVSS v3.1 scores of 9.9: CVE-2026-85947, CVE-2026-85948 and CVE-2026-85955. Two carry 9.6: CVE-2026-...
Scope-Creep Catcher
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Scope-Creep Catcher

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Freelancers and digital agencies face this scenario on almost every single project: You agree to build a 4-page website for a client for a fixed price of $1,000. After you deliver the work, the casual emails start coming in: "Can you just add one more page for our case studies?" "Can you quickly tweak the brand colours and rebuild the mobile layout?" "Can you co...
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Die weiße Zone um den QR-Code, die fast alle vergessen

Ein QR-Code, der nicht scannt, obwohl er perfekt aussieht? Neun von zehn Mal ist nicht der Code schuld, sondern das, was drumherum ist: der Rand. Man nennt ihn die Ruhezone (quiet zone), und fast jeder knapst daran. Was die Ruhezone ist Es ist der leere Streifen in der Farbe des hellen Hintergrunds, der das Muster umgibt. Der Scanner nutzt ihn, um zu erkennen, wo der Code anfängt und aufhört. Ohne ihn verwechselt die Kamera den Code mit dem Text, dem Logo oder dem Bild daneben. D...
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ITIL 4 Foundation: How Non-ITIL People Actually Pass This Exam

The ITIL 4 Foundation exam has a reputation problem. Ask around and you will hear two stories: "it is just common sense, I passed in a weekend" and "I failed twice and I manage an IT department." Both are true, and the difference is almost never intelligence — it is whether the candidate respected what the exam actually tests. ITIL 4 Foundation does not test your experience. It tests your fluency in a specific vocabulary and your ability to apply its models to scenarios. Experienced IT manage...
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Mirror Speed: What Actually Matters When You're Pulling from a Repo at 3 AM

Mirror Speed: What Actually Matters When You're Pulling from a Repo at 3 AM I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit staring at a terminal, waiting for a git clone to finish. The progress bar crawls, the network indicator sits at a trickle, and I start questioning every DNS setting I’ve ever touched. Mirror speed is one of those topics that sounds simple—"just pick a faster mirror"—but in practice, it’s a tangle of protocol overhead, geographic routing, and filesystem cache behavior. Let...
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GrowSight: A Local AI Website Auditor for Small Businesses

This is a submission for the "Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle" ( https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12 ). GrowSight: A Local AI Website Auditor for Small Businesses A website can look perfectly fine and still lose potential customers. Maybe the call-to-action is unclear. Maybe the mobile experience needs improvement. Maybe the business is missing a feature that could make it easier for customers to buy, book, or get in touch. For small bu...
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CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1202): The New Exam Is Security-Heavy — Study Accordingly

The 220-1202 replaced the 220-1102 as CompTIA's A+ Core 2 exam, and the headline change is impossible to miss: security now dominates. Roughly a third of the exam sits in the Security domain alone, and security thinking bleeds into the operating-system and troubleshooting domains too. Candidates who treat Core 2 as "the Windows exam" the way the old series sometimes felt are in for a surprise. Here is the new exam, domain by domain, and how to aim your study time. The 220-1202 at a G...
Designing friction instead of blocking: what I learned building a screen-time app
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Designing friction instead of blocking: what I learned building a screen-time app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6769946195 The problem with every blocker I tried I've tried the usual stuff on my own phone: hard limits, one-tap locks, deleting apps. They all fail the same way. The block is absolute, so the fix is absolute too — you flip the switch off, and you're back to zero. Every attempt resets to the same starting line. My wife had the same pattern, worse: down at eleven, still awake at two, half of it short video and half of it shopping...
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How to Generate Voice Content for E-Learning Platforms

Why Voice Matters in E‑Learning If you’ve ever watched a video lecture with a monotone, robotic voice, you know how quickly attention drifts. A natural‑sounding narrator can boost comprehension, retention, and overall learner satisfaction. That’s why more e‑learning platforms are swapping out static recordings for AI‑generated speech that can be updated on the fly, localized, and even personalized to match a brand’s tone. The Building Blocks: TTS & Voice Cloning Modern ...
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Checkout Failure Alerting: Polling Logs and Error APIs for Failed Jobs and 5xx Exceptions

Short answer: poll logs and the errors API into a shadow decision process first, then alert only on distinct failed checkout operations; keep rollback behind a separately tested state check. For a property-management checkout, that separation matters more than whether the final notification goes to email or a Slack webhook. A Node.js service can emit the evidence while a small Python cron job evaluates it without sharing application memory or deployment fate. Don't let an exception count beco...
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Gas Optimization Audit: Deribit

Gas Optimization Audit: Deribit Target Protocol : Deribit (TVL: $3933.5M) Deribit – Gas‑Optimization Audit Report Date: 17 Oct 2026 Prepared by:  [Your Company] – Senior DeFi Security Research & Smart‑Contract Auditing Team 1. Executive Summary Deribit is a leading derivatives exchange with a reported TVL of ≈ $3.93 B across Ethereum L1 and multiple L2 roll‑ups. The platform’s smart‑contract suite handles perpetual futures, options, and margin...
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Go Realtime Channel Semantics for Logistics State You Actually Store

A realtime channel should carry a current logistics device event to authorized dashboard clients; it should not be treated as the system that remembers that event. The operational rule is blunt: commit durable device state to a database or log, publish a small notification that identifies the new state, and make every reconnect read from the durable source before resuming the live stream. Scope each connection token to the tenant, facility, and permitted topic, because a browser holding a token ...
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Plagiarism in the Age of AI

Article URL: https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/10/17/Plagiarism.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135063 Points: 1 # Comments: 2
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I Became a Citizen of AI

Article URL: https://discuss.google.dev/t/trusted-automation-with-google-antigravity-scaling-secure-finance-integrations-from-40-days-to-5/383313 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135521 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Put AI to work across your company

Article URL: https://vstorm-co.github.io/vstormos-landing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135614 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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AI coding interfaces make approval easy and understanding hard

Article URL: https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/10/10/ai-coding-interfaces-make-approval-easy-and-understanding-hard.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135617 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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How do you deal with AI Output of your boss?

So, my boss goes on a rampage. You can clearly see the joy and at the same time the rage and impatience. AI is the tool he always wanted. We are too slow. Process is out of the window. No need for sprints anymore. No planning, just doing. All people downstream must somehow adapt. Whenever i see now his automated messages in slack, my natural reaction is: why do i even bother reading that? Thats for machines to read. He does not need me? Clearly i am not made for that. What is he expecting me to ...
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Gartner says only about 130 'AI agent' companies are real

Article URL: https://devanshranjan.medium.com/gartner-says-only-about-130-ai-agent-companies-are-real-i-build-agents-heres-how-to-tell-b79fdd03d764 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135988 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Abolish AI Manifesto

Article URL: https://abolish-ai.net/abolish-ai-a-manifesto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136124 Points: 3 # Comments: 0