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Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store

Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store Most well-known mpv-based Mac players, including IINA, distribute outside the Mac App Store. When I built Reel , a local-video player/library app for macOS, I wanted to know why , and whether it could be done. It can. It took a month from first commit to approval, and almost none of the hard parts were about playing video. This is a field report of every wall I hit: a JIT crash that only happens under the App Store's rules, LGPL ...
Stop Asking AI to "Write Code". Teach It How to Work.
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Stop Asking AI to "Write Code". Teach It How to Work.

Most developers use AI like autocomplete. The best developers use it like a software engineer. Over the past year, AI coding assistants have become part of our daily workflow. Whether you're using ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, they can generate code in seconds. But here's the problem: Most of us are still writing prompts like: "Build me a login page." or "Fix this bug." But what is the result? Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's a mess. The diff...
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I got tired of rebuilding my diagnostic USB on every machine, so I fixed it once

very IT tech I know has the same ritual. New machine lands on the bench, or you're at a client site, and before you can actually fix anything you spend twenty minutes assembling the same handful of tools. Download this. Extract that. Oh, this one wants .NET. Oh, this box has no internet. Oh, the client's policy blocks installs. I did that dance for years. Then I got tired of it and built a portable kit that lives on one USB stick and installs nothing. This post is mostly about what belongs on...
Documentation Drift Breaks Coding Agents | Focused Labs
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Documentation Drift Breaks Coding Agents | Focused Labs

Documentation drift used to be a huge problem for human developers. Waste their time. Now it can cause coding agents to take wrong actions, and even to ship the wrong change. Previously boring documentation issues get to take on a whole new degree of importance because they can now affect when the wrong change gets shipped by a coding agent. Software documentation tools used to sit beside the delivery process. They helped onboarding, audits, support, architecture reviews, and the occasiona...
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API Design Considerations for Frontend Applications

Overview A well-designed API simplifies frontend development, improves performance, and provides a consistent experience across platforms. The frontend should consume predictable, versioned endpoints that return only the data required for each request. Design Principles Resource-Based Endpoints Endpoints should represent resources rather than actions. Examples: GET /products GET /products/{id} POST /orders PUT /users/{id} Pagination Large datasets should...
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I Stopped Chasing Tutorials and Started Building AI Apps. Here's What Changed.

A year ago, I spent more time watching tutorials than actually building. Every new framework looked exciting. Every new AI tool felt like something I had to learn before I could start. Then I realized something: You don't become a better developer by consuming more content. You become better by building. Since then, I've focused on creating real projects instead of collecting courses. Some of the things I've been building include: πŸ€– AI-powered web applications ⚑ Full-stack ap...
How to Connect Claude to Your WordPress Site in 5 Minutes
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How to Connect Claude to Your WordPress Site in 5 Minutes

If you have ever asked Claude to help with WordPress, you know the routine. You describe the problem, Claude writes some code without seeing your actual site, you paste it into WordPress, test it, and half the time something breaks because the AI was guessing about your theme and setup the whole time. Connecting Claude directly to your site ends that. Once connected, Claude can read your files, edit your theme, create pages, and manage content from inside the same chat window, working on your...
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Three weeks before the enterprise contract, the voice agent wasnt operator-ready.

Three weeks before the enterprise contract, the voice agent wasn't operator-ready Look. We had 99.2% uptime in staging. We had eval coverage on 1,400 test turns. We had latency under 280ms first-token. We were not operator-ready. I know this because the enterprise pilot started on a Monday and we had our first critical incident by Tuesday afternoon. This is what happened, what broke, and what the gateway layer decision actually looks like when you're under pressure to fix it fast. ...
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Designing a Reliable Wallet Engine: Event-Driven Architecture with Kafka and TypeScript

The Problem If you've ever built a fintech product, you know this truth: the hardest part isn't moving money β€” it's making sure you never lose it. A wallet engine sounds simple on the surface. Credit. Debit. Balance. But the moment you introduce concurrency, network failures, and the need for auditability, it becomes one of the most demanding distributed systems problems you can tackle. I built a wallet engine that needed to: Handle credits, debits, and wallet-to-wallet transfer...
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Building in Australia: An Ecosystem Deep Dive on Innovation, Investment and Competitiveness for Digital Economy Startups

A research note prepared for the Superteam Australia bounty program Why I'm Writing This If you've spent any time around Australian startup Twitter, LinkedIn, or a Stone & Chalk co-working kitchen, you've heard some version of the same sentence: "the ecosystem here is fine, but." Fine funding, but scattered across a hundred portals. Fine regulatory intent, but slow to actually land. Fine talent, but expensive and mobile. That "but" is doing a lot of work, and I think it's...
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A Primitive Should Never Have an Opinion

I wasn't looking for a bug,I was auditing one of the foundational primitives in my infrastructure. The implementation was compact, the test coverage was solid, and nothing immediately stood out. Then one small constraint caught my attention. It had nothing to do with Rust's type system or memory safety, The primitive was rejecting a mathematically valid value without violating a single structural invariant,The rejection existed for one reason only: I had decided the value wasn't meaningful. ...
Our Golden Docker Image Was Patched for Three Weeks Before Anyone Actually Ran It
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Our Golden Docker Image Was Patched for Three Weeks Before Anyone Actually Ran It

A penetration test revealed that patched golden container images don't protect production unless every dependent workload is rebuilt and redeployed. This article explains common pitfalls in enterprise golden image programs and shares practical strategies for immutable versioning, automated rebuilds, language-specific base images, and scalable governance.
DeepFest Returns to Riyadh as Saudi Arabia Marks 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence
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DeepFest Returns to Riyadh as Saudi Arabia Marks 2026 the Year of Artificial Intelligence

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 30, 2026: DeepFest, the dedicated artificial intelligence and deep technology platform co-located with LEAP 2026, returns to Riyadh from 31 August to 3 September 2026, bringing together global technology leaders, investors, policymakers, and innovators to explore the future of artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and real-world AI deployment.
CertiK Launches Invite Only Hunt Platform for Elite Security Researchers
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CertiK Launches Invite Only Hunt Platform for Elite Security Researchers

CertiK, the Web3 security firm backed by Sequoia, Coatue and Goldman Sachs at a $2 billion valuation, launched CertiK Hunt on July 1, 2026, an invite-only platform where vetted security researchers run bug bounty programs, audit competitions and AI security challenges for Web3 projects. Both researchers and projects are screened before joining, a structure CertiK says addresses the disputes and delayed payouts that plague open bug bounty programs. The launch lands in a market Immunefi has domina...
Why Guardz Raised $84M to Defend the Businesses Enterprise Security Forgot
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Why Guardz Raised $84M to Defend the Businesses Enterprise Security Forgot

What is Guardz? Guardz is an Israeli-founded, Miami-anchored cybersecurity company that sells a unified, AI-native detection-and-response platform to Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who in turn secure small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). It was founded in 2022 by Dor Eisner and Alon Lavi and launched from stealth in early 2023. Who is Dor Eisner? Eisner is co-founder and CEO of Guardz. He served in Israel's Unit 8200 and was a founding executive at IntSights, the threat-intelligence firm ac...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Privacy
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500 Blog Posts To Learn About Privacy

Let's learn about Privacy via these 500 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. How hackers are hacking your stuff and stealing your data 1. The Best Private Search Engines β€” Alternatives to Google Private search engines have seen huge growth over the past few years. Until recently, it was unthinkable that anyone could compete with Google in the search ...
The TechBeat: Every AI Agent Is a Non-Human Identity That Needs Governance (7/2/2026)
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The TechBeat: Every AI Agent Is a Non-Human Identity That Needs Governance (7/2/2026)

How are you, hacker? πŸͺ Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here . ## A Buyer's Guide to PCI DSS 6.4.3 and 11.6.1 Compliance Solutions By @securitymetrics [ 5 Min read ] This blog compares some of the best code-free vendors for PCI Requirements 6 and 11. Read More. The 8 Best Contract Management Software Tools Worth Using in 2026 By @s...
Liquid Mercury Completes MiCA Disclosure for MERC, Enabling Trading Admission Across the EU
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Liquid Mercury Completes MiCA Disclosure for MERC, Enabling Trading Admission Across the EU

Chicago, United States, July 1st, 2026/Chainwire/-- Liquid Mercury announced today that its MERC crypto-asset white paper was submitted to the Central Bank of Ireland and officially added to ESMA’s MiCA white paper register. MiCA, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, is the EU framework for crypto-asset offers, admission to trading, disclosures, and market integrity. It requires a published white paper before a non-exempt crypto-asset can be offered or admitted to trading in the EU. W...
BTCC Exchange Sees Trading Volume Surge Ahead of Argentina Match Days as World Cup Showdown Campaign
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BTCC Exchange Sees Trading Volume Surge Ahead of Argentina Match Days as World Cup Showdown Campaign

George Town, Cayman Islands, July 2nd, 2026/Chainwire/-- BTCC , the world's longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, is recording a standout result from its 15 Years in the Game: The BTCC World Cup Showdown campaign, with futures trading volume surging up to 55% ahead of Argentina's World Cup match days. The surge is a direct result of the platform's 1.25x volume boost for traders during the 24-hour window prior to kickoff. As an official regional partner of the Argentine Football Associatio...
Zoomex X Space Recap With Didi Hamann and The World Cup Trading Panel
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Zoomex X Space Recap With Didi Hamann and The World Cup Trading Panel

Didi Hamann say the most dangerous opponent in football is the team with nothing to lose, not because they are better, but because they have already made peace with losing. That frees them to play without the weight that better-resourced sides carry into every decision. His approach across a career spanning Bayern Munich, Liverpool, and two Champions League finals was built on the same logic in reverse: stay calibrated. The score does not change how you play. The situation does not change the ...
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Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine

Coding agents don't have long-term memory. But you do have months of full-fidelity agent transcripts stored on your machine. A simple solution that goes a long way: ingest those transcripts and logs into a structured SQLite database, then search them with ranked text match. Everything is fully local and doesn't require anything fancy like a graph database or hosted memory service. This is the idea behind ctx, a Rust CLI that handles the ingestion and searching. We give our agents a skill that te...
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EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf]

Article URL: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EFF-letter-to-FTC-on-X-consent-order-7-2-26.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766209 Points: 93 # Comments: 22