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I localized my app store screenshots into 8 languages. Here's what actually moved installs

I shipped my app in English, watched it do fine in the US and UK, and assumed the rest of the world would catch up once word got around. It didn't. The install rate in non-English markets was roughly a third of what I saw in English ones, even where I had decent traffic. So I dug into it, and the answer was embarrassingly simple: people couldn't read my store listing. Not the description. They can machine-translate that in their head, or the store does it for them. The problem was the s...
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TypeScript 7 RC: the compiler rewritten in Go, around 10x faster

Microsoft just shipped the Release Candidate for TypeScript 7, with the stable release expected next month. And the big deal, for once, isn't a new syntax or yet another config flag. It's that the entire compiler has been rewritten in Go. Over the past year, the team ported the existing codebase (until now, TypeScript that compiled to JavaScript) to Go. It was done methodically from the current implementation, not rewritten from scratch, so the type-checking logic stays structurally identical...
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Solstice Turing Simulation: An Interactive 3D Imitation Game Powered by Google Gemini

Solstice Turing Simulation: An Interactive 3D Imitation Game Powered by Google Gemini ๐ŸŒ…๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿช Development Team Himanshu Yeole/ https://github.com/himanshuyeolecse-jpg - Core Engine & Architecture Lead ๐Ÿš€ Project Overview Solstice Turing Simulation is a responsive web application designed as an interactive implementation of Alan Turingโ€™s classic Imitation Game. Set against a stylized architectural backdrop of a June Solstice twilight beach bonfire, the application challenges players...
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Solstice Turing Simulation: An Interactive 3D Imitation Game

Solstice Turing Simulation: An Interactive 3D Imitation Game Powered by Google Gemini ๐ŸŒ…๐Ÿค– ๐Ÿช Development Team Himanshu Yeole/ https://github.com/himanshuyeolecse-jpg - Core Engine & Architecture Lead ๐Ÿš€ Project Overview Solstice Turing Simulation is a responsive web application designed as an interactive implementation of Alan Turingโ€™s classic Imitation Game. Set against a stylized architectural backdrop of a June Solstice twilight beach bonfire, the application challenges players...
Nice custom Svelte animations
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Nice custom Svelte animations

Svelte ships fade, fly, slide, scale, blur, โ€ฆ in svelte/transition so you can just import those ones and use them out of the box. But you also can create your own actions and transitions, and use them via use: directive, or with in:/out: , - very convenient across elements. Let me share several actions that i use the most often in our design system. What Svelte gives you natively is the ergonomics : a one-line use:/in:/out: directive on any element, with teardown hand...
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Day 56 of Learning MERN Stack

Hello Dev Community! ๐Ÿ‘‹ It is officially Day 56 of my daily coding run toward mastering full-stack MERN engineering! Yesterday, I mapped out declarative Mongoose blueprints. Today, I advanced right into the most crucial segment of web security within Prashant Sir's backend masterclass track : Implementing Session-Based Authentication, Client Cookies, and Request Validation Results! To build production-ready systems, you can't trust user inputs blindly, nor can you expect users to log i...
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A 3D voxel game engine written in APL

Article URL: https://github.com/namgyaaal/avoxelgame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616713 Points: 67 # Comments: 7
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Google Hits 50% IPv6

Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/28/google-hits-50-ipv6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616800 Points: 167 # Comments: 160
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CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt

Article URL: https://shiftmag.dev/ctos-agree-cognitive-debt-is-the-new-technical-debt-10229/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617323 Points: 38 # Comments: 29
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Motif Learning Protocol: Prompt Engineering for Knowledge That Actually Sticks

TL;DR Most AI learning prompts help you recognize ideas. This one trains recall โ€” via a paradox-first story, one lethal number, one mnemonic, and a three-stage interrogation (kid โ†’ pragmatic auntie โ†’ devil's advocate). No app. No API. Two Markdown files. Copy, paste, learn. The problem with "summarize this for me" You ask ChatGPT to explain inflation. It gives a clean definition. You nod. You close the tab. Two weeks later โ€” blank. Recognition โ‰  recall. Highlighti...
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Why I put a 4-qubit circuit inside a brain tumor classifier

A few months ago I would have told you quantum machine learning was mostly hype dressed up in cool-sounding words โ€” "superposition," "entanglement," "quantum advantage" โ€” thrown around papers that never quite show you the number that matters. Then I built one of these systems myself, for something that actually has stakes: classifying brain tumors from MRI scans. And I came out the other side with a more interesting opinion than "hype" or "revolution." It's somewhere in between, and the in-betwe...
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I built a free AI-powered relocation tool comparing 95 countries and 668 cities โ€” here's how I did it

The Problem I was researching international relocation and found the existing tools deeply frustrating: Numbeo is the gold standard but costs $260/month for API access Most comparison sites cover 20โ€“30 countries at best Nothing gives you a personalised recommendation based on YOUR priorities What I Built Placemappr (placemappr.com) is a free relocation research platform: 95 countries with composite relocation scores 668 cities with weather, air quality an...
Turing's Mirror โ€” A Game About the Question We Still Haven't Answered
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Turing's Mirror โ€” A Game About the Question We Still Haven't Answered

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Turing's Mirror is a browser game about the one question Alan Turing asked in 1950 that we still haven't answered: can you tell the difference between a human and a machine? You read 10 conversations. For each message, you decide: human or AI? Sounds simple. Round 1, it is. By Round 5, you'll second-guess everything. That's the point. ๐ŸŽฎ Play it here ๐Ÿ’ป GitHub Video Demo ...
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Google Paid $2.7B to Keep Its Best AI Researcher. He Left Anyway.

In 2024, Google paid $2.7 billion to bring Noam Shazeer back. Shazeer invented the transformer architecture, the foundation behind GPT, Gemini, and Claude. Google said: "We can't lose this person." June 2026. Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. This isn't one person's story. It's a pattern. Google DeepMind's best researchers are walking out the door to AI startups, one by one. Who Left? Noam Shazeer โ€” The man who invented the transformer. Co-lead of Google's Gemini m...
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JShell: Java's Built-In Scratchpad for Trying Code Fast

Here's a familiar feeling. You want to test one small thing in Java โ€” maybe how String.substring() behaves, or whether a regex pattern matches. So you create a file, write a class, add a main method, type System.out.println , compile, run. All that ceremony for a one-line answer. JShell does away with the ceremony. It's a read-eval-print loop (REPL) that ships with the JDK since Java 9. You type Java code, press Enter, and see the result immediately. No class, no main method, no compil...
QA: booster, not blocker.๐Ÿš€
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QA: booster, not blocker.๐Ÿš€

QA: booster, not blocker. ๐Ÿš€ People sometimes see QA as the reason a release slows down. But QA is not a โ€œshow stopper.โ€ QA catches the showstoppers before they reach Production. Because of that, the services keep running. The users keep trusting. And the show goes on. Great QA teams are not slow. They are thorough, Letting the business run the show. They donโ€™t block delivery; they protect delivery. QA !== blocker of releases to Prod QA === booster of quality, resilience an...
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shared configuration in microservices

Spring Boot with Spring Cloud Config Server, shared configuration is achieved by placing common properties in a central repository (like Git, Vault, CredHub, or JDBC) under the application.* scope so that all client applications can inherit them. Application-specific files then override these shared defaults. let me explain the scenario, assume few applications are running under config server, each application has it's own config(.properties) file placed in config server, expected retrieve it...
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Stop Wasting LLM Budgets: High-Performance Semantic Caching with Spring AI and pgvector

Stop Wasting LLM Budgets: High-Performance Semantic Caching with Spring AI and pgvector Your enterprise is likely bleeding thousands of dollars on duplicate LLM API calls because your Redis cache fails when a user asks "How do I reset my password?" instead of "Password reset steps." In 2026, relying on exact-string matching for LLM caching is a rookie mistake that kills both your latency and your budget. Why Most Developers Get This Wrong Exact-Match Obsession: Using tra...
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Software Development Process: From Idea to Successful Product

In today's digital world, software powers almost everything we doโ€”from ordering food online to managing billion-dollar businesses. But behind every successful application, website, or platform lies a structured software development process that transforms an idea into a working product. Many people assume software development is simply about writing code. In reality, coding is only one part of a much larger journey involving planning, design, testing, collaboration, and continuous improvement...
The Code I Shared: Reflections on my best 29+ Merged Pull Requests in Open Source
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The Code I Shared: Reflections on my best 29+ Merged Pull Requests in Open Source

Writing code in public changed the way I think about software development. When I merged my first pull request on New Year's Day of 2024, it felt like a small step. Over the course of thirty months and many merged contributions, that small step grew into a major part of my growth as a developer. I want to share my curated contribution history. In this document, you will find my best pull requests merged across various repositories, starting from my most recent contributions to my very first o...
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I'm 13. I built a software company. Here's everything I learned in 1 months.

I'm Akhouri Anmol Kumar. 13 years old. India. Founder of Akhouri Systems. 1 months ago I had 0 users, 0 downloads, 0 recognition. Today: 4 Windows apps shipped 120+ real downloads Listed on Softpedia, Softonic(on the way), SourceForge Product Hunt live Google indexed Here's everything I learned: 1. Ship ugly. Polish later. My first ATLOCK version was rough. But shipped > perfect. Every update made it better. Nothing ships if you wait for perfect. ...
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