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I read the post, agreed with it, and opened my repo to plan the migration. Then I could not find the loop I was supposed to be replacing. The repo is agentsmyth, a seven-step agent chain I have been building for months. What I found was a fixed sequence with a checkpoint between every step and exactly one edge leaving every node. There was no loop to tear out and no obvious place to put a graph. I spent an evening trying to work out what I had misunderstood, and eventually went back to rea...

Wanted a tool anyone could use to build a meal-prep style bowl or plate and get real calorie and macro numbers back, with weight adjustments in ounces or grams depending on what you actually use. If you're a Nawtch user, cool, you can add the finished bowl straight into your foods. But if you just landed on the page because you wanted to test out a few combinations, you don't need to be a Nawtch user at all. You can still save bowls locally and come back later to edit them or build more. It's me...

Here is a rule that looks like it blocks OpenAI's crawler: User -agent: * Disallow: /checkout/ Disallow: /customer/ User -agent: GPTBot Crawl-delay: 10 It blocks nothing. GPTBot reads its own group, finds one Crawl-delay line and no Disallow , and crawls everything — including /checkout/ and /customer/ . Under RFC 9309 , a crawler that matches a specific user-agent group uses only that group. It does not inherit from User-agent: * . Naming a bot anywhere in the ...

Every team I've been on has a #general channel that goes quiet by 11am. A daily digest bot is the easiest way to give people a reason to glance back at it, and "today's tech headlines" is a low-effort, high-signal thing to post that nobody minds seeing every morning. Here's a complete Slack/Discord bot, built on NewTqnia 's free public news API, that you can have running in about 15 minutes. What we're building A small Node script that: Fetches today's tech headlines (AI...

So, you shipped a new feature. Congrats! 🎉 Now the app's acting weird. Do you nuke the whole release? Nah. Enter feature flags. What Are Feature Flags? Feature flags (aka feature toggles, aka "please don't break prod" ) let you flip features on or off without redeploying. It's like hiding switches all over your codebase, so you can turn stuff on for your favorite users—or just yourself, let's be honest—and turn it off when things inevitably go sideways. Marti...

Build Your First Spring AI Application with OpenAI Using Spring Boot If you have been following this Spring AI series, you already understand the two most important abstractions: ChatClient and ChatModel . In the previous article, we learned that: Your Java Code | v ChatClient | v ChatModel | v AI Provider ChatClient gives us a developer-friendly API, while ChatModel handles the underlying model integration. Now it is time...

Why do teams use feature flags? Because "move fast and break things" is only fun until you break prod. Feature flags let you move fast and break things slightly less dramatically. Here’s how real engineering teams actually use them. Canary Releases A canary release means you roll out a change to a small percentage of users first—say, 1%—before exposing it to everyone. If the 1% starts screaming, you flip the flag off and investigate. If they don't notice anything...

This is a case study of a small business website we designed and built. To see whether the design held up, we read its own edge logs over a 28-day window. Nothing here is a client’s data, and the site is not named. It is a Next.js application on Node behind a reverse proxy, and a worked example of how a modern site is actually attacked, and how building it carefully answered that. Start with the single most-requested URL in those 28 days: /wp-admin/install.php, hit 518 times. The site has nev...

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Hi HN, like many of you talented folk, I’ve been building more, faster than ever. I built Saggar after my terminal stopped feeling like a tool and started feeling like a tab-management problem. Let me know you think! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331551 Points: 34 # Comments: 32

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336050 Points: 37 # Comments: 5

Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere in our feeds.  Why […]

Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching one million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orchestrating drone deliveries in Texas since 2025. The news comes […]

The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 services, and it sports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and ethernet, […]

Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt in. But […]

The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

Uber is also making investing in Zipline a part of the tie-up.