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AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, […]
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Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

Valve's Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The prices are so high in part because Valve isn't subsidizing the hardware, and the company has already indicated that the component crisis […]
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Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage." Still, it doesn't address all of the concerns around AI data […]
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The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
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Cron jobs sin Celery, sin Redis, sin Beat: cómo Fitz mete un scheduler distribuido adentro del lenguaje

Para correr una task cada 5 minutos en Python necesitás Celery + Redis + Celery Beat + worker process + Dockerfile dedicado. En Fitz es un decorador. Con retry, timezone, persistencia y catch-up adentro del lenguaje. La historia de siempre Tu cliente está contento con la API. Está corriendo. Entonces te pide tres cosas: "¿Podemos limpiar sesiones vencidas cada noche?" "¿Podés mandar el email de bienvenida en background así el signup no espera?" "El reporte diario tiene...
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Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms

Recently I developed a new feature for this Github Action to automate the creation of AWS Cloudwatch alarms. Next steps I will show you the settings you need to add to your project to automate creation of CloudWatch alarms. Prerequisites 1- Your project should use the github actions 2- Your user must have permissions to create an OpenID Connect IDP, policies, and roles in your AWS account. 3- AWS CLI installed on your computer to make it easier to create IAM policies, ...
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Why Daily Transaction Volume is the Wrong Number to Quote in System Design Interviews

The Mistake Most Candidates Make Picture this: You are in a system design interview. The interviewer asks you to design a ledger system or a payment settlement pipeline. Eager to show you can handle scale, you confidently state, "We'll design this to handle 100K transactions a day." The interviewer nods. But that number just told them very little about whether you can actually engineer the system. Leading with total daily volume is the most common trap candidates fall into. It sounds like...
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Building a Design System Without Recreating CSS

One of the easiest traps to fall into when building a design system is accidentally recreating CSS. At first, it seems harmless. You add a few utility classes. Then a few responsive options. Then a few layout helpers. Then a few exceptions. Before long, you've built an entirely new syntax for doing the exact same thing CSS already does. I've become increasingly interested in a different approach. Not replacing CSS. Not hiding CSS. Creating a layer above CSS that foc...
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Running Async Python Inside Celery Is Harder Than You Think.

The problem is straightforward to state and surprisingly hard to solve correctly. Celery workers are synchronous. Celery spawns prefork worker processes, and when a task arrives, it calls your task function like this: task_function(*args, **kwargs) . It expects a return value. It blocks the worker thread until it gets one. It does not know or care that you wrote async def . But modern Python services are async. FastAPI is async. SQLAlchemy 2.0 is async. httpx, aiohttp, asyncpg the entire...
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how do you get real-world experience before your first job?

hello ! im a CS student (2nd year) and ive been look around for some tech jobs. any kind because honestly i just want a tech related job (i <3 tech). but the problem is,so many jobs/places want you to have experience in the real-world but literally no one is willing to offer it. they want minimum 3-years experience. im considered learning some other programming languages that they require for jobs that could be useful. however, i want to practice what ive learnt in a real job setting. of cour...
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How to make an AI research agent label facts vs inferences — a deterministic provenance pipeline

Originally published on hexisteme notes , part of a series on building and running an AI agent fleet. To stop an AI research or RAG agent from presenting its own inferences as retrieved facts, split the work so the LLM never decides what is a fact : let the LLM only extract and summarize, and let a deterministic, non-LLM pipeline do all scoring, cross-checking, and labeling. Tag a claim FACT only when a rule is satisfied — corroboration by ≥2 independent sources, or one official API — an...
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Stop Shipping Broken Env Config: Comparing 4 TypeScript Validators

I've built enough projects to know that environment variable validation isn't glamorous — until your app silently uses undefined as a database URL. There are a bunch of tools for this now, and picking the wrong one means either fighting your tool or fighting your own config. Here's how they stack up. The candidates Tool Size Dependencies CLI Framework support CtroEnv under 5 KB gzip 0 Yes Node, Vite, Next.js Zod + manual 50 KB+ 0 (...
Superconductor review: the cleanest way I've found to run AI agents in parallel
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Superconductor review: the cleanest way I've found to run AI agents in parallel

I use Claude Code every single day. At my day job, it's my main agent, and I've talked plenty about how much I love it. But on my side projects, I like to play around with other agents: Codex, OpenCode, whatever new CLI shows up that week. And recently I hit a wall that turned out to be more annoying than I expected. I wanted to run a bunch of agents in parallel. Not one at a time, but several, across different projects, at the same time. And the moment I tried to do that, I realized every to...
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I built 168 pages of free trading tools with vanilla HTML/JS — here's how

The idea Prop firm traders (people who trade with other people's money) need specific calculators that account for strict drawdown rules. Every existing calculator is either ugly, full of ads, or doesn't know that FTMO has a 5% daily drawdown limit. So I built PropWise — 10 interactive tools across 168 SEO-optimized pages, all in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. No framework. No build step. No dependencies. What I built 10 core tools: Position Size Calculator (pre-configu...
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I built a live secret scanner for VS Code (and why CI scanning is too late)

We've all done it: pasted an API key into a file "just to test," then a week later it's in your git history, a screenshot, or a livestream. Most secret scanners — gitleaks, trufflehog — run in CI, after the secret is already committed. So I built Secret Guardian , a VS Code extension that catches secrets live, in the editor , the moment they appear — and visually masks them so they never show up in screenshots or screen-shares. 👉 Secret Guardian on the VS Code Marketplace (fr...
Why We Built PlayerZero
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Why We Built PlayerZero

PlayerZero has emerged from stealth with $20 million to tackle a growing problem in software engineering: AI is accelerating code creation faster than teams can maintain quality. Its platform treats software like a living system—continuously understanding architecture, learning from incidents, and autonomously fixing production issues. Early customers report faster debugging, fewer escalations, and issues resolved before users notice.
We talk about AI daily, but are we actually using it, or just drinking the brand?
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We talk about AI daily, but are we actually using it, or just drinking the brand?

While everyone talks about AI, few are actually integrating it deeply into their lives due to the "implementation gap" and the heavy cognitive friction of unstable connections (like relying on VPNs). Much like a disconnected coffee shop that retains a famous logo but lacks quality coffee, we often adopt the brand or buzzwords of new technology rather than its true substance. Real innovation requires moving past the hype to build stable, human-centered connections with the tools we use.
GoBTC Pay Wants to Make Bitcoin Spendable Again. The Fee Math Says It Might.
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GoBTC Pay Wants to Make Bitcoin Spendable Again. The Fee Math Says It Might.

Q: What is GoBTC Pay? GoBTC Pay is an open Bitcoin payment protocol launched by GoMining on June 19, 2026. It enables instant payment authorization at the point of sale with on-chain final settlement on Bitcoin's Layer 1, targeted at 12 hours by end-2026. The protocol charges 0.2% to merchants, nothing to users, and splits the fee between GoMining's dedicated mining pool (0.1% to miners) and the wallet that routes the payment (0.1%). It uses a 2-of-3 multi-signature architecture involving the us...