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AI inference costs are going up, but adopting the habits of LLM Whisperers can deliver cost savings and other benefits.

A practical walkthrough of three JWT forgery attacks involving unsigned tokens, weak secrets, and algorithm confusion.

AI teams often chase speed and ignore provenance, consent, and copyright risk. This article explains why “just scrape it” is dangerous.

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Hi HN, Recently I wasted several hours wrangling my dev environment only to find out that the browser frontend was talking to the wrong version of the backend. This got me thinking--why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead? I thought of all the times a program wouldn't start because of port conflicts. The more I thought about it, the crazier it seemed. Modern operating systems already offer no-conflict ports: if you mak...

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There's something about a movie like The Room, Troll 2, or Fateful Findings that I find irresistible. These sorts of "so bad they're good" films are marvelous curiosities where ambition far outstrips resources, ability, and self-awareness to become something much greater than the sum of their parts. Champagne and Bullets (also released as GetEven and […]

As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company may also be wrestling with how to address consumer privacy concerns.

A few years ago, I spent about a month cleaning up duplicate charges. Every service involved already had idempotency "handled": the client sends an Idempotency-Key header, we store the response under it, and if the key comes back we replay the stored response. Textbook. And it still double-charged people. What finally clicked for me is that the key is just a name for the request. It doesn't do anything on its own. Whatever safety you have comes from the code around it, and that code is a smal...

Most Zero Trust write-ups stop at "user signs in, user gets access." That's not where these integrations actually break. They break on group membership that almost, but doesn't quite, satisfy a policy. They break on admin consent that was never granted, silently, until the first real sign-in. They break on the one country rule that was supposed to be an OR and was actually an AND. I built a small, fully Terraform-managed demo to make those failure modes visible instead of theoretical: Mi...

Hi 👋 This is my first post here, and I want to share a side project I built as a QA engineer — because it scratches an itch I think a lot of us have. Here's the itch: for one business flow, I'd end up building the same thing three times — a Postman collection, a Playwright API test, and a JMeter plan. Same requests, same variables, same assertions, just typed out three different ways. It's slow, it's boring, and the three copies drift apart the moment anything changes. So I built Tes...

In this guide, you will learn how to write a Python script that visits a website, grabs product names and prices, and saves everything into a spreadsheet file. No experience needed — we explain every step. You can find the complete source code for this project in this GitHub repository . 🧰 What You Need Before Starting Python 3 installed on your computer ( download here ) A code editor — VS Code works great ( download here ) Your terminal (the black window where...

I have been experimenting with a pattern I call Thumb Chord that consists of pressing a thumb key (the space-bar on a standard keyboard) and a home row key ( A to ; on an QWERTY keyboard) simultaneously to form a chord which outputs a modifier, like shift or control. Here is a minimal layout definition, based on keyd's configuration format, to illustrate the pattern: [ids] * [main] d+ space = oneshot(shift) k+ space = oneshot(shift) When combine...

The DeepSeek Leak: Why Infrastructure Secrets Matter More Than Model Weights The artificial intelligence ecosystem was recently rattled by reports that Liang Wenfeng, the low-profile CEO of DeepSeek, was deeply unsettled by an internal leak. To the casual observer, panic from the leader of an "open-weights" pioneer over leaked information seems paradoxical. If a company’s business model is built on releasing state-of-the-art models like DeepSeek-V3 and R1 to the public, what secrets are left...

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Both of these bugs were already known before I touched them. One had a linked issue and a fix that covered half the cases. The other had a unit test that asserted the crash, with a comment above it saying // Remove when fixed! . They also had the same shape. In both projects the correct behavior already existed elsewhere in the same file: a sibling transformer that handled the input, a sibling branch...

Web development is constantly evolving, and sometimes the best way to move forward is to rethink how we serve our applications. If you are looking for a lightning-fast, zero-friction way to render server-side JavaScript pages natively within your web server, it is time to look at AxonASP integrated with the Caddy web server . We are rewriting the future of server-side page rendering. By embedding the AxonASP runtime directly into Caddy, you get a powerful environment that executes server-s...

I used to play Carmageddon with @edulazaro and we decided to play it again now that the new one is coming this year. We also tried to add new cars, and we wanted their numbers to sit in a sane range: mass, top speed, suspension, etc. The 1997 original is the obvious reference. But there is one problem. Carmageddon stores all of that encrypted on disk. So for example CARS/BLKEAGLE.TXT is just encrypted garbage. So at first just asked Claude to work out the cipher, but it didn't wor...

Some time ago I started going to a code-and-coffee meetup . Every week we'd get together, share ideas, and show off projects we'd been working on — and it's been a genuinely great experience. From the very first meetup, one thing stood out to me: almost everyone was building something to solve a problem they ran into every single day. That got me thinking. What if I built something to fix a problem in my own workflow? So I looked at how I actually spend my day. I write a lot of code....

I Planned 10 LLM Evaluation Experiments And Only Ran 1. It Was Enough. I didn’t set out to write a benchmark paper. I wanted to answer a much dumber, much more practical question: “For the stuff I actually do at work, when do I really need a frontier model… and when am I just burning money?” So I did what engineers do when they want to be serious about this: I designed 10 experiments across real-world agent use cases with a reusable evaluation harness and a ...

Claude Code Cost Control in Production: Token Budgets, Caching Strategies, and What the Billing Dashboard Hides This article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review. Most Claude Code cost overruns stem from invisible context accumulation and cache misses that the billing dashboard never surfaces. Production teams ship AI-powered features, watch token spend double month-over-month, and trace the issue to conversation histories that ballooned from 10k...

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