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Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design

Article URL: https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?ashby_jid=87b96eef-edc1-4de4-adb6-d460126d02f8&utm_source=hn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656219 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Supercharge your AI Coder with a code-graph

One of the most powerful upgrades you can give any AI developer Introduction AI coding assistants are dazzling on a single file and surprisingly lost on a large one. Point a capable agent at a mature, multi-package codebase and you watch the same pattern every session: it greps for a symbol, opens a dozen files to work out how they fit together, and burns a large slice of its context window simply rediscovering the shape of the system before it can do any actual work. That...
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I was tired of heavyweight dev tools — so I built my own

I'll be honest — I didn't set out to build a developer tool. I'm an engineer by trade. I build structural and forensic engineering software. C++, WinUI 3, heavy desktop apps. But a big chunk of my prototyping and internal tooling happens in Python — and every time I sat down to spin up a quick Python desktop app, I hit the same wall. Every launcher, every hot-reload tool, every dev cockpit I found wanted something from me. Install this. License that. Set up a virtual environment. Add five ...
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Shopware vs Shopify: a developer's case for the open platform

Most "Shopware vs Shopify" posts compare dashboards, app stores, and pricing tables. None of that matters to you until the day a client asks for something the platform won't let you build. Then the comparison stops being a feature grid and becomes a question about ceilings: how high can I go before the platform says no, and what happens when I hit it? That's the only axis I care about as a developer, so that's the one I'll argue on. Shopify is an outstanding product. It's also a closed SaaS...
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Notes on adversarial paraphrasing: a paper review

Just finished reading Saha et al. arXiv 2506.07001 on adversarial paraphrasing for AI detector evasion. Key claim: detector-guided paraphrasing with RoBERTa as reward reduces TPR by 87.88 percent across Binoculars, Fast-DetectGPT, Ghostbuster, RADAR, GPTZero. Universal, training-free. What surprised me: the approach works even on detectors that were trained with adversarial examples baked in. Suggests the discriminator signal is fundamentally narrower than the generator space. Open ques...
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How Solana Processes Transactions — And How to Make Them Faster

If you've ever sent a transaction on Solana and wondered why it landed instantly one time and struggled another, you're not alone. Solana is incredibly fast, but how your transaction enters the network matters just as much as what you're sending. In this article, we'll break down Solana transaction processing in plain English — no developer jargon — and explain why landing services like Lunar Lander and Astralane can dramatically improve speed and reliability. The Big Picture: How...
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How to Automate Your Business Workflows Without Hiring a Full Dev Team

You don't need a 5-person engineering team to run like one. Here's how small businesses are cutting manual work — without the overhead. The Problem Nobody Talks About Openly You're running a business. You have leads coming in from your website, follow-up emails to send, invoices to track, onboarding tasks to assign — and somehow, you're still doing most of it manually. You've probably heard the advice: "Just hire a developer." But a full-time developer costs $60,000...
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GEO: Wie du dafür sorgst, dass ChatGPT & Co. deine Seite zitieren

Dein bestes Google-Ranking ist wertlos, wenn die Antwort schon vor dem Klick gegeben wurde. Genau das passiert gerade: Nutzer fragen ChatGPT, Claude oder Perplexity – und bekommen eine fertige Antwort mit drei, vier zitierten Quellen. Bist du nicht darunter, existierst du in diesem Moment nicht. Kein Ranking, kein Klick, keine zweite Chance. Die Disziplin, die das adressiert, heißt Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) . Und sie ist – anders als der Marketing-Lärm vermuten lässt – zu großen T...
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Open Source Project of the Day (#104): AgentScope 2.0 — Alibaba's Production-Ready Agent Framework Built Around Model Reasoning

Introduction "Build and run agents you can see, understand, and trust." This is article #104 in the Open Source Project of the Day series. Today's project is AgentScope 2.0 — Alibaba DAMO Academy's open-source production-ready agent framework. The agent framework space is crowded. LangChain centers on chain-based orchestration. AutoGen centers on multi-agent conversation. CrewAI centers on role-based collaboration. AgentScope's differentiation is in its design philosophy: whe...
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Line AI Chatbot In Production: A CTO's Honest Breakdown

Line AI Chatbot In Production: A CTO's Honest Breakdown Three months ago I was staring at our infrastructure bill wondering where the hell our runway went. We'd been running a customer-facing chatbot powered by a popular "enterprise" AI provider, and the cost curve looked like a hockey stick in the wrong direction. Every new sign-up bled money. I knew we had to make a change before our next board meeting, but I also couldn't afford a six-week migration that would tank our product velocity. ...
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Connect a user's mailbox with Nylas hosted OAuth

Every Nylas request you make on a user's behalf needs one thing first: their permission. Before you can list a mailbox, send on someone's behalf, or read a calendar, the user has to authorize your application through their provider, and that authorization is what's called a grant. Doing the OAuth dance yourself means registering with Google and Microsoft separately, handling each provider's consent screen, token exchange, and refresh quirks. Hosted OAuth collapses that into one flow that works t...
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Verify Nylas webhook signatures to trust your data

A webhook endpoint is a public URL sitting on the internet, and anything on the internet can send it a POST . If your app acts on whatever lands there, an attacker who guesses the URL can forge events: fake an inbound email, trigger a workflow, or feed your system garbage. The fix is to confirm two things before you trust a request, that you own the endpoint and that Nylas actually sent the payload, and both are built into how webhooks work. This post covers verifying webhooks from two angle...
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Pull OTP and 2FA codes from email with Nylas

One-time passcodes are everywhere: sign up for a service, log in from a new device, confirm an action, and a six-digit code lands in your email. A human glances at it and types it in. An automated flow, a signup script, an end-to-end test, or an AI agent connecting to a third-party service, can't glance at anything. It has to pull the code out of the mailbox programmatically, and that's a surprisingly fiddly job: the code arrives seconds after a trigger, it's buried in a templated email, and eve...
Companies and Billionaires Are Buying & Building Influencers
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Companies and Billionaires Are Buying & Building Influencers

Influencer culture runs on trust, but AI is making fake credibility cheap and abundant. Brands and billionaires are responding by buying into creators who already have real audiences. Building trust from scratch is harder than ever. As synthetic content floods the internet, verifiable trust is becoming the scarcest and most valuable asset online.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Limitless Applications of AI (6/23/2026)
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Limitless Applications of AI (6/23/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 23, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Computer Visionary Alan Turing Was Born in 1912, Reddit Was Founded in Massachusetts in 2005, Sega Introduced Sonic The Hedgehog in 1991, Microsoft Released Windows Mobile in 2003, NASA's Ma...
The Container Is the Agent: Why Docker and MCP Are Quietly Building the Backbone of Production AI
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The Container Is the Agent: Why Docker and MCP Are Quietly Building the Backbone of Production AI

The race to build production AI agents isn't won at the model layer, it's won in the infrastructure around it. Docker's MCP Toolkit packages AI tool servers as isolated containers, bringing the same reproducibility and security guarantees that Docker gave microservices to the fast-growing world of agentic AI. A practitioner shares three adoption patterns that separate shipping teams from perpetual prototypers, and lays out where the story is still incomplete.
The End of Crypto’s EU Grandfather Clause
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The End of Crypto’s EU Grandfather Clause

MiCA’s 18-month grandfathering window for crypto platforms operating in the EU closes on July 1, 2026. After that date, any firm serving EU clients without full CASP authorization is in breach of EU law and must cease operations, with wind-down plans already required to be in place. Tether’s USDT offers a preview of the mechanism already in motion — major exchanges delisted it after Tether skipped MiCA authorization. Users on EU-facing platforms should check the ESMA Interim MiCA Register and co...
Building an AI Startup Is Easy. Selling It Is Hard
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Building an AI Startup Is Easy. Selling It Is Hard

Building an AI voice agent for service businesses is now a weekend project: managed voice platforms, a workflow orchestration layer, and off-the-shelf integrations. The hard part is everything after. I shipped a working inbound voice agent and a clean landing page, sent outreach to roughly 1,600 qualified businesses, and got zero replies. That number taught me what the engineering never could: when the marginal cost of building the product approaches zero, the product is not the moat. Distributi...
We Treated Our Ledger Like a Database Table. It Cost Us Six Months
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We Treated Our Ledger Like a Database Table. It Cost Us Six Months

We stored account balances as a mutable column and updated them on every transfer. It worked fine until a race condition double-processed a batch of payouts, and we discovered we had no way to independently verify what the correct balances should have been. We rebuilt the system around an append-only ledger, where balances are computed from history rather than stored directly, backfilled six weeks of parallel verification, and only then retired the old column. Here's what broke, why it bro...
The Branding Lesson Hidden in the Mount Hamilton Wilderness
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The Branding Lesson Hidden in the Mount Hamilton Wilderness

By giving something a memorable name (like "The Mount Hamilton Wilderness" or "Inbound Marketing"), you make it tangible and easy for people to rally behind, support, and adopt. This act of "category creation" turns abstract concepts or unnoticed things into influential ideas, a strategy that is even more powerful in the age of AI. However, the name must represent something real and true to be effective.
No AI Agent Without Identity (Part 2): Building the Layered Identity Model
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No AI Agent Without Identity (Part 2): Building the Layered Identity Model

Part 2 of a 5-part series on agentic AI governance. This article explains why AI agent identity needs a layered model: stable agent principals for governance, temporal runtime or context identities for attribution, roles and policies for access control, and linked execution and audit records for accountability.