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Building ClaimMate AI

Hi everyone, I'm Marc, the founder of ClaimMate AI. I've been building an AI software engineering platform that helps developers generate code, explain existing code, debug issues, create tests, review code, and build applications from simple prompts or voice. I'm still in the early stages and would really appreciate honest feedback from other developers. Why I Built It I wanted one workspace where developers could chat with AI, generate code, debug problems, and iterate on ideas ...
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DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Actually Wins in 2025?

DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Actually Wins in 2025? I've spent the last decade designing systems that need to stay up no matter what. 99.9% uptime isn't a marketing slogan for me — it's the difference between a happy customer and a 3am incident call. So when the Chinese model ecosystem exploded with options like DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM, I didn't just glance at the benchmarks. I pulled the levers, watched the dashboards, and stress-tested every endpoint I could get my ha...
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Linux Package Management Explained Simply (apt, dnf, yum & rpm)

Quick Note In my previous article, I mentioned that Linux Troubleshooting Flow for Beginners would be the final post in this series. While preparing it, I realized there were a few practical Linux skills every beginner should learn first. These topics will make the troubleshooting guide much easier to understand and follow. Before we wrap up the series, we'll cover: Package Management Finding Files & Text Viewing Files Efficiently File Compression Then we'll bring ev...
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Why Online DevTools Are the Next Big Thing for Developer Productivity

Every developer has been there: you need to format a JSON blob, decode some Base64, or convert a timestamp. You open your terminal, look for the right npm package, or — worse — write a quick script. I used to do this too. Then I discovered a better pattern. The Problem with Local CLI Tools Local tools have real drawbacks: Installation overhead : npm install -g some-tool for a one-time task Version rot : tool stops working after OS update No sharing : you forma...
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"Swipe Cleaner: A Technical Deep Dive into On-Device Photo Privacy"

Disclosure: I write about projects in the OpenNomos ecosystem, including Swipe Cleaner. The Problem With Photo Cleaners Most photo cleaning apps have a dirty secret: your photos leave your device. They get uploaded to some server for "AI processing," "cloud analysis," or just because the developer didn't think about it. Swipe Cleaner takes the opposite approach. Everything happens on your iPhone. Not a single pixel leaves your device. Let me break down why that matters, a...
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Stop Fixing Your AI Writing Prompt. Make These 5 Decisions First

I used to fix weak AI drafts by asking for better prose. "Make it clearer." "Make it more persuasive." "Make it sound less generic." The output improved a little. Then it failed in the same place: the article looked polished, but nobody remembered what it was trying to say. TL;DR: Before you ask AI to write, fill a five-line editorial brief: audience, takeaway, material to use, first point to place, and scope delegated to AI. The prompt gets shorter because the decision-making moved ba...
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Validate Before You Build: The MVP Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

This is part of my work with 01MVP on OpenNomos — a project that helps founders validate ideas before building. The $0 Launch I once spent three months building a product. It had everything: authentication, payments, a polished UI, dark mode. I was proud of it. Launch day: 27 visitors. Zero signups. I had spent 90 days building and precisely zero days asking anyone if they wanted what I was building. I was solving a problem that existed only in my head. The ...
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MCP Explained: How It's Different from Traditional APIs

Imagine you are planning a surprise birthday party. You need invitations, food, decorations, and a cake. You call different places to get these things. You tell each one exactly what you need. "I need 20 red balloons." "I need a chocolate cake for 10 people." This is how many computer programs talk to each other. They use something called an API (Application Programming Interface). An API is like a menu. You pick what you want. You get exactly that. It works well for simple tasks. But what if yo...
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Learning to code is still worthwhile

Article URL: https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810439 Points: 131 # Comments: 131
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How to sequence your own DNA at home

Article URL: https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812156 Points: 94 # Comments: 23
AWS IoT Core in Production: How We Built OTA Firmware Pipelines for 300+ Physical EV Chargers
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AWS IoT Core in Production: How We Built OTA Firmware Pipelines for 300+ Physical EV Chargers

Drawing from a migration from a self-managed MQTT broker to AWS IoT Core, this article explains how to build a production-ready OTA firmware platform for hundreds of EV chargers. It covers session-aware deployments, multi-component firmware sequencing, device shadows, IoT Jobs, observability, security, and lessons learned operating a geographically distributed hardware fleet.
Your Multi-Agent System Is a Distributed System. Treat It Like One
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Your Multi-Agent System Is a Distributed System. Treat It Like One

The article argues that multi-agent AI systems inherit the same failure modes as distributed systems, including retries, duplicate execution, stale state, and partial failures. Rather than relying on better prompts or larger models, it advocates proven engineering patterns such as idempotency keys, durable queues, bounded retries, outbox tables, and saga-based compensation to build reliable production-grade agent systems.
Unreal Engine 5.8 Windows Optimization Guide (v1.0)
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Unreal Engine 5.8 Windows Optimization Guide (v1.0)

BIOS first: disable ASUS Multi-Core Enhancement, force Intel Default Settings, hard-cap PL1/PL2 to 253W. Eliminates false Out of Video Memory errors on 13th/14th Gen Intel. Windows: shift thread scheduler to Background services. Add UE_5.8 and AppData/Local/UnrealEngine to Defender exclusions. Stops Windows from throttling ShaderCompileWorker mid-compile. NVIDIA: DDU clean wipe, then Studio Driver. Power Management to maximum performance. Shader Cache to 10GB. Background FPS cap of 20-30 on Unre...
Deribit and SignalPlus Launch The Island Trading Competition With Up to $600,000 USDC in Prizes
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Deribit and SignalPlus Launch The Island Trading Competition With Up to $600,000 USDC in Prizes

Panama City, Panama, July 6th, 2026/Chainwire/-- Deribit by Coinbase , via its broker-dealer DRB Panama Inc., and SignalPlus , a leading provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, today announced the launch of The Island , their fifth trading competition and biggest edition to date. Running for 35 days, the competition features up to $600,000 USDC in prizes across solo and team competition, daily and weekly reward rounds, Mystery Box deposit mechanics, sh...
Running Tech Startups Is Quite Like Running A Restaurant
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Running Tech Startups Is Quite Like Running A Restaurant

In this article, investor and entrepreneur Ivan Kraynov shares lessons from hospitality that can help technology startups improve customer experience, adaptability, customer retention, and operational scalability.
213 Blog Posts To Learn About Android App Development
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213 Blog Posts To Learn About Android App Development

Let's learn about Android App Development via these 213 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Want to dive head first into the world of android app development? Well, this is the place for you. 1. Termux Commands List Cheat Sheet In this Ultimate Guide, we’ve made a list of the best Termux commands list for beginners. You cannot run Termux without these T...
One Company Runs 95% of Solana's Validators. Flowra's Harry Hwang Is Building the Open Alternative
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One Company Runs 95% of Solana's Validators. Flowra's Harry Hwang Is Building the Open Alternative

Jito's client runs on 95%+ of Solana's active stake; one provider operates the validator client, the relayer, and the block engine where ordering rules live. Flowra — led by Harry Hwang (ex-TradFi/CeFi quant; founder of block-builder Mevity) — is building an Open Orderflow Auction (OOA) plus Programmable Block Policy (PBP) as the open alternative. The counterintuitive core: exposing orderflow to many searchers compresses searcher margins, not validator revenue. Ethereum's PBS produced a measur...
We Tried Building an In-House AI Routing Layer - It Blew Up at $500/Month Per Engineer
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We Tried Building an In-House AI Routing Layer - It Blew Up at $500/Month Per Engineer

Centralize model governance without losing over a year of development velocity to building infrastructure from scratch. Engineering organizations routinely underestimate the significant resource hit of an internal build—which easily commands millions in multi-year engineering talent alone —and the persistent maintenance tax it imposes
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Hoto’s PixelDrive screwdriver is down to $60, matching its best price

If your Prime Day purchases included a new desk, TV stand, bookshelf, or other furniture you still haven’t assembled, Hoto’s PixelDrive cordless screwdriver can help speed up the process. It’s currently on sale for $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, matching its best price to date.  From tightening loose screws on furniture to repairing electronics, the […]
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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.
I needed cross-platform screen capture in Rust, so I built pinray
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I needed cross-platform screen capture in Rust, so I built pinray

So I needed screen capture in Rust. Simple enough, right? Wrong. I went looking for a crate and found three options: scap , xcap , and waycap-rs . Each one had problems that drove me nuts. So I open sourced pinray , a Rust crate for cross-platform screen and system audio capture. The goal is simple: provide a single API over each platform's native capture APIs without depending on ffmpeg or another large capture framework. pinray focuses on capture only. It gives you raw video an...
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Meta Pixel not firing? The 6 real causes, in the order to check them

"The Meta Pixel isn't firing" is one of the most common things I get called in to fix. The frustrating part is that "the pixel is installed" and "the pixel is firing" are completely different claims - and most dashboards happily say connected while the events never actually leave the browser. Here are the six causes I check, in order, each with a verification step you can run in a couple of minutes. First, know what you're looking for. A firing pixel sends network requests to facebook.c...