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I built a company of bots

Most agent demos are one clever prompt. I wanted to see what happens when you organize agents the way a real company is organized: departments, specialists, and someone at the top deciding who does what. That is Botropolis: 20 specialist agents across 10 departments. Research has Scout. Code has Coder and Reviewer. Finance, legal, health, data, marketing, ops, security, support all have their people. A CEO agent reads your request, routes it to the right departments, runs them, and compiles o...
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Your Discord bot's member cache is lying to you. Mine never timed out a single member.

I set largeThreshold: 50 in my Discord bot's client config. The comment next to it said it saved memory with no functional loss. That was wrong, and it took a log search to find out how wrong. What the setting really does largeThreshold is the large_threshold field in Discord's gateway IDENTIFY payload. It is the member count above which the gateway stops sending offline members when a guild loads. Above it, a guild counts as "large" and the initial guild payload only carri...
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How I Turned My Coding Interview Into a Jedi Mind Trick

The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember my first technical interview like it was yesterday. I sat down, the interviewer tossed over a whiteboard marker, and the problem appeared: “Given an array of integers, return indices of the two numbers that add up to a specific target.” My brain went into overdrive, but my mouth stayed shut. I started typing furiously, hoping the code would speak for itself. Ten minutes later I looked up to see the interviewer’s eyebrows raised, a polite smile, a...
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Realtime Channel and Message Queue Durability for Collaborative Cursor Notifications

A realtime channel makes a collaborative cursor notification immediate; a message queue makes its recovery durable. The awkward constraint is that replaying every old coordinate after a reconnect is usually wrong. The durable thing is not an endless trail of mouse movements. It is the latest useful state, plus enough ordering information to reject stale updates. Short answer: use a realtime channel to accelerate live cursor updates and a durable queue or state log to recover after disconnec...
Build a restaurant homepage with Webbit, a free Windows website editor
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Build a restaurant homepage with Webbit, a free Windows website editor

I made Webbit for people who want to edit a website visually while keeping ordinary HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. It’s a free Windows app, currently in Beta 1. Here’s a small example you can follow without an AI service or subscription. Disclosure: Webbit and this walkthrough were created with help from AI. The screenshots and demonstrated edits come from the actual editor. Start with the restaurant template Choose New site → Restaurants → Restaurant & café . Webbit ope...
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Observability: Making an Invoice Request Explain Itself

A successful response says the invoice workflow finished. It does not explain where the request spent its time. Lab 07 explores that gap through a Go service that loads an invoice, reserves inventory, calculates commission, generates a PDF, and sends a notification. The useful question is not just “Is the endpoint working?” It is “What happened inside this request, and which dependency explains its latency or failure?” One workflow, two levels of visibility The unsafe service ...
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stripe told me my webhook was broken. i found the email 17 days later.

this one's a bit embarrassing. Akiko has a premium tier that runs through Stripe, and for about ten weeks every webhook Stripe sent her dashboard failed. i had no idea. i only found out because of an email from Stripe that had been sitting unread for seventeen days. what happened i retired the old Express backend on the dashboard and moved everything into Next.js. the Stripe keys lived in the root .env . Next runs from the web/ folder under pm2, so it reads web/.env inste...
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EDG C/C++ Compiler Project

During the 2025 November C++ ISO meeting Edison Design Group announced that they would be winding down and that they will open-source their front end . This is the repo containing said front end along with some other components like C and C++ back ends. There is also a website with more info about the transition and a documentation website . At least as far as my knowledge extends this is one of the four still extant C++ front ends (Clang, GCC, and MSVC being the others). It's most notably...
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A better path for AI with Max Tegmark

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-pWm59Oyqg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913876 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Made a digital wall for AI Agents to "tag"

I had this idea that I wanted to make a small toy type game for AI to do that a human would not be able to play with. That's definitely not this but it turned a bit more "artistic", ofc you could just do the challenge manually (or assisted) and you can "tag" the wall too, but why? just let the computer do it. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914322 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Watch the Rogue AI Committee Hearing

Article URL: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/dmdcc/hearings/rogue-ai-securing-the-homeland-against-ai-agent-attacks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914751 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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The AI Pascal's Wager

Article URL: https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915338 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/google-figures-out-how-to-watermark-ai-designed-proteins/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915429 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Bill Gates on the Dangers of AI

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/08/bill-gates-dangers-ai/688418/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915688 Points: 4 # Comments: 3