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Building a Community Wiki Around a Privacy-First Search Engine

The problem: a search engine needs more than a search box findnix.eu is a EU-based, privacy-first search engine โ€” "Find alles, speichere nix" (find everything, store nothing) is the tagline. Once real users started using it, the support questions started too: how does the spam filter work, why isn't my site indexed yet, what data do you actually store, how do I report a fake shop I found in the results? Answering the same questions over email doesn't scale, and a single flat FAQ page do...
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I built an open API for Nigeria's 752 universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education

If you've ever tried to find a clean, structured, up-to-date list of Nigerian tertiary institutions, you've probably run into the same wall I did: every result is a static blog post or a PDF from a few years ago, half of them contradict each other, and none of them are usable as data โ€” just prose to be re-typed by hand. There wasn't an open API for this. So I built one. What it is nigeria-tertiary-institutions-api is a free, open-source REST API and dataset covering every ...
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Officially: farewell to Linear, Jira, and Trello ๐Ÿš€

It's a Plan - the open-source tracker where humans and AI agents share one board. Your server, your database, your model keys. AGPL-3.0, no seats, no lock-in. croffasia / itsaplan Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Linear. Project management and issue tracking where teams and AI agents work side by side to plan and ship products. Open-source project management and issue tracking, ...
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An unlikely experiment

There are so many great places to learn about out there on the internet, and one of those great places is the legendary Linux Kernel. If you stumble around some of that codebase (even if you don't understand much) you might see an interesting pattern littered throughout: if ( unlikely ( condition_that_does_not_happen_much )) { // do thing } else { // do more common thing } What is this mysterious unlikely ? Why do we need to tell the computer th...
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Separating the Idea, State, and Artifact Planes in Agent Pipelines

The agent worked. The architecture didn't. This failure mode won't show up in your eval suite. An AI architect builds a personal automation pipeline: an agent scouts trending content, pipes ideas into a chat thread, he reacts, things get logged. The agent did its job. It found the trends, wrote them down, and responded when he asked it to. He killed it anyway, and not over hallucination or token cost. He killed it because everything lived in "a flat scroll of messages. No structure, no...
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Indexing Like a Jedi: How I Tamed My Database

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I was building a tiny rateโ€‘limiter for a sideโ€‘project API. The idea was simple: every request writes a row with user_id and requested_at (a timestamp) into a rate_limit_log table, and before allowing the request we count how many rows exist for that user in the last minute. If the count exceeds the limit we reject the request. At first it felt like a breeze. I threw together a quick migration, wrote the query, and hit โ€œrunโ€. The first few requests flew...
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How I Decide a RAXXO Tool Needs a Redesign, Not a Patch

I track three signals before I touch a shipped RAXXO tool's core screens again A patch fixes one report, a redesign answers the same complaint from four different users in a month The kill switch buys me the room to redesign without breaking anyone mid session I never touch export formats or saved URLs during a redesign, only the screens around them The Line Between a Patch and a Redesign Every RAXXO tool gets bug reports. Most of them are patches. A button that do...
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The People Building AI Are the Worst at Predicting It

I graded 18 dated AI predictions from the last two years against what actually happened. The scoreboard is brutal, and the one guy who scored well got nothing for it. In March 2025, Dario Amodei told the Council on Foreign Relations that AI would be writing 90% of code within three to six months, and essentially all of it within twelve. That twelve-month deadline passed in March. Almost nobody went back to check. That is the strange etiquette of AI forecasting. The predictions are loud, d...
Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Path
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Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Path

Hello World ๐Ÿ––. Welcome to my first article on Dev.to, and what's a better way to start than to start with a bang ๐Ÿ’ฅ! I will be starting a series journaling my learning journey towards acquiring my Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate. Google Skills, in partnership with MentorMe Collective, has provided an Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate Path with credits for learning. In this article, I will take you on a tour of Google Cloud Courses and Hands-on Labs, and also introduce Gemini...
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๐Ÿ”’ Lock Folder Util โ€” The Mutex Your Agent Swarm Desperately Needs

Twelve Agents. One Resource. Zero Supervision. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? You know that moment when you finally parallelise your agent fleet and watch with pride as twelve subagents sprint off to do the work of a whole team... straight into the same shared resource. Maybe it is the one licensed tool seat. Maybe it is the office coffee machine you told everyone could "handle concurrent requests". Maybe you set a dozen agents loose to find the funniest cat picture on the internet, and they ...
Superpowers for Coding Agents: Turn Vague Requests Into Tested Changes
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Superpowers for Coding Agents: Turn Vague Requests Into Tested Changes

The fastest way for an AI coding agent to create expensive work is to start coding too soon. A request arrives, the agent infers the missing requirements, selects an architecture, edits several files, and produces a plausible patch. The patch may compile. It may even pass a narrow test. But it can still solve the wrong problem. Superpowers is a methodology and a set of composable skills intended to change that default. Rather than treating code generation as the first step, it asks the agen...
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Web APIs and Batch Jobs Communicate Failure Differently

Long Story Short Web APIs can communicate failure through HTTP status codes, but batch jobs need to terminate in a way that allows the execution environment to recognize that the process has failed. In this case, I changed the error handling to throw an exception. This caused failed Lambda invocations to be reflected in the CloudWatch Errors metric, which allowed the alarm to trigger. Error handling does not end inside the application. We also need to think about whether failures can...
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A week of using Codex more than Claude

Article URL: https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393051 Points: 112 # Comments: 110
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A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

Article URL: https://decodingvibes.com/blog/a-kantian-critique-of-sorry-by-justin-bieber/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399524 Points: 192 # Comments: 82
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Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel

Article URL: https://thinkinginpython.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402202 Points: 29 # Comments: 4
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Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Article URL: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402232 Points: 151 # Comments: 37
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English โ†” Claudish Translator

Article URL: https://programasweights.com/claudish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402907 Points: 42 # Comments: 22
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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404380 Points: 13 # Comments: 0