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Pck3r is a modern package manager for Windows 10 x64

GitHub Pck3r: C++ Package Manager for Windows Pck3r is a modern package manager for Windows 10 x64, implemented in C++ for performance and modularity. It helps users manage software installations with MSI/EXE installers on Windows. Pck3r makes installing, downloading, and managing software easier with a clear interface and straightforward commands. Requirements Windows 10 x64 g++ compiler (MinGW or similar) Setup Compile the project using ...
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Hash Chains Protect Every Record Except the One That Matters

A chain answers only for what arrived Take a plain audit log. Each entry has a sequence number, a payload, and the hash of the previous entry. Entry one has no predecessor. Entry two embeds the hash of entry one, entry three embeds the hash of entry two, and the rest repeat the pattern. A verifier holding entries one through seven can recompute every hash edge. If entry four changed, entry five no longer points at it. If entry three vanished while four through seven remain, the numbering ...
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Building DreamHome: A Modern Real Estate Platform with the MERN Stack

Building DreamHome: A Modern Real Estate Platform with the MERN Stack By Dhrumil Gajjar — Full-Stack MERN Developer based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat The Problem Real estate platforms often force users into a frustrating choice: either browse a long, unfiltered list of properties, or wrestle with clunky search tools that don't match how people actually look for a home. I wanted to build something that felt closer to how a good real estate agent works — letting users narrow d...
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Why We Need to Schedule Post-Quantum Cryptography Around the Weather

Why We Need to Schedule Post-Quantum Cryptography Around the Weather The security industry is undergoing one of the largest migrations in history: moving from classical cryptography (RSA/ECC) to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) . While algorithms like ML-KEM (FIPS 203) are quantum-resistant, they have a hidden cost: they are CPU-intensive . Compared to classical algorithms, key generation, signing, and verification consume significantly more compute. More compute = more electricity....
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Python 3.15 Release Highlights

Python 3.15 has reached Release Candidate 1, and the final release is expected on October 1, 2026. I went through the changes and tried to summarize the ones that seem most relevant for everyday Python development without going through all the PEP numbers. Faster startup with lazy imports Python 3.15 introduces lazy imports, which means some modules can be loaded only when they are actually needed instead of being loaded immediately. This could help applications and CLI tools t...
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I Told the AI "A Scanner Flagged This" — and It Agreed With Everything

I gave two AI models the same 200 pieces of code, the same prompt, the same question. One of them removed 51% of the false alarms. The other removed only 20% of the false alarms — and confirmed 90% of everything it was shown. Same inputs. Same instructions. A 2.5× difference in the only thing I was measuring. The model that failed isn't a bad model. It's a well-regarded commercial model from a frontier lab. It failed at this task for a specific, predictable reason: I told it that a s...
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SVG sprites: improve performance (and keep configurability)

A table with 200 rows and 5 action icons per row. That’s 1,000 inline SVGs dropped into your HTML. When does that start to impact your performance? By default, Rails Icons renders each icon as a full <svg> element. Fine for a handful of icons. But at scale, it adds up. I built a simple benchmark to measure exactly how much (feel free to fork and improve ❤️). Two pages, identical layout, 1,000 icons each. One uses inline SVGs you use and love. The other uses an SVG sprite you will...
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RAG Chunking Explained: How to Choose the Right Chunk Size and Strategy

Imagine I give you a whole pizza and say: “Eat it.” You look at it and think, Sure, I can eat it. But now imagine I give you the same pizza without cutting it. Can you eat it comfortably? Not really. You would probably cut it into smaller pieces first. And that is exactly what we do with large documents before giving them to an AI system. A 200-page PDF, a 50,000-line documentation file, or a huge company knowledge base is useful to us as a complete document. ...
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What Are AI Agents? A Practical Guide to Autonomous Software

AI agents are the biggest shift in how we build software since the API. For years we wrote programs that did exactly what we told them, step by step. An AI agent is different: you give it a goal, a set of tools, and the freedom to decide how to reach that goal. It plans, acts, observes the result, and tries again until the job is done. This guide breaks down what an AI agent actually is, how one works under the hood, and how to build a reliable one without getting burned. From Chatbo...
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Season 6 Prologue: Let's Be The People With Dirty Hands

Bonus Content this week! Before we get into today’s topic, check out this video I did for my friends over at the DevOps Society ! Next week, Season 6 of The Adventures of Blink kicks off. This season's build is a continuation of what we've been talking about for the past few weeks. We talked about the "Why". We talked about the "How". Now it's time for the "What". Our mission: Getting our Hands Dirty with Compliance and Governance. It's easy to create a blog and wr...
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Stop Using Regex: Building Zero-Crash LLM JSON Pipelines in Production

Replace brittle string parsing with schema-enforced validation and self-healing repair layers. The Bottleneck in Production Most LLM pipelines don't break because the model generated bad logic. They break because the model violated your backend's JSON parsing contract. When running LLMs in production services, you will inevitably hit: Trailing commas, missing closing brackets, and unescaped quotes. Truncated strings caused by token limit exhaustion. Safety refusals t...
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LangChain-AI/deepagents: agent harness

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Should the Press 'Run Toward' AI?

Article URL: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/should-the-press-run-toward-ai-tom-rosenstiel-new-book-next-journalism-how-press-must-change-serve-democracy.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462305 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985385/openais-rogue-ai-model-hugging-face-cybersecurity-incident-reports-metr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462329 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: AI LinkedIn Message Personalisation

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The Current State of AI Chips

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