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This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam ( https://dev.to/challenges/june-game-jam-2026-06-03 ) What I Built I built Solstice Assassin, a tactical stealth-action game set inside a collapsing digital mainframe. You play as Alex, a self-aware digital anomaly trapped inside the Solstice Grid, a secure virtual system originally created by Alan Turing. Alex awakens with almost no memory except one critical piece of information: «CREATOR: ALAN TURING» The catch? T...

A beginner-friendly series on learning Python from scratch, one concept at a time. If you've ever wanted to learn programming but felt intimidated by curly braces, semicolons, and confusing syntax — Python is where you start breathing easy. It reads almost like English, and it's one of the most in-demand languages in the world today, used everywhere from web apps to data science to automation scripts. This is Part 1 of a beginner series that will take you from "what even is Python" to wri...

The next attempt was the standard Maps URL: window . open ( `https://maps.google.com/maps?daddr= ${ lat } , ${ lng } ` , ' _blank ' ); This opens Maps, but in the browser — not the app. And it shows the route preview, not turn-by-turn navigation. What worked: Android Intent URLs Android supports a special URL scheme that tells Chrome to launch a native app directly: window . location . href = `intent://navigation/now?ll= ${ ...

₹37,500 per month. That was the SaaS bill a Jaipur-based textile exporter was paying for automating invoices, GST reconciliation, and shipping notifications across three platforms. Three dashboards, three logins, three support tickets every time something broke. I replaced all of it with Python scripts running on a ₹500/month VPS. The recurring cost dropped to effectively zero — and the workflows actually became more reliable. This isn't a hypothetical framework. This is the exact stack I'...

Part 2 of a beginner-friendly series on learning Python from scratch. In Part 1 , we installed Python, wrote our first program, and learned the syntax rules that hold everything together. Now it's time to start storing and working with information — which means variables and data types. What is a Variable? A variable is a name that points to a value stored in memory. Think of it as a labeled container you can put something into, and refer back to later by name. name...

Manually converting invoice data from PDF or Excel files into CSV format is one of the most time-consuming tasks in accounting and data management workflows. It often involves repetitive copy-pasting, formatting adjustments, and a high risk of human error. In many real-world scenarios, invoices arrive in different formats such as PDF, XLS, XLSX, or even HTML. Handling them individually can slow down reporting pipelines and create inconsistencies in structured data storage. The Problem with...

Over 60% of APAC finance leaders say AI-led automation is their top priority for 2026. For Indian businesses, that stat hides a quieter truth: most SMBs have no idea which automation to start with. They hear "AI for finance" and picture an enterprise suite with a six-figure licence fee. Wrong picture. I've built finance automations for CA firms, D2C brands, trading desks, family-run manufacturers, and a few fintech startups. The pattern is always the same. Five finance processes eat the mos...

A model fallback that only works in a diagram is not resilience. It is a TODO with better branding. If your product depends on AI agents, one slow provider, rate-limit spike, regional restriction, malformed response, or model behavior change can turn a useful workflow into a confusing user experience. The dangerous part is not always a clean outage. The dangerous part is a half-working fallback that silently changes schemas, drops tool state, skips citations, or gives users lower-confidence o...

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Learn how agent.tool() integrates budgets (CostBudget, OpenAITokens, AgentToolCalls), retries, timeouts, and AbortSignal propagation into a single composable API—without generators, DSLs, or external tracing setup. Every tool call emits typed, ordered events for replay, audit, and debugging. Parent scope cancellation aborts in-flight I/O at the TCP layer.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 19, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Michael Pupin Patented Long-Distance Telephony in 1900, The First Commercial Photoelectric Cell Was Installed in 1931, Blaise Pascal Was Born in 1623, First Woman Cartoonist Debuted in 1940, ...

Let's learn about Stock Market via these 183 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. The stock market is a marketplace where shares of publicly traded companies are bought and sold, representing ownership stakes. It serves as a vital mechanism for capital formation, allowing companies to raise funds and investors to grow wealth. 1. 5 Best Stock Market APIs in 20...

Stockholm, Sweden, June 19th, 2026/Chainwire/--PremiumBlock brings leveraged prediction markets, liquid 24/7 FX perpetuals and Web3 poker together in one wallet-native platform via premiumblock.org PremiumBlock today announced the launch of its non-custodial risk hub for decentralized prediction markets, perpetual futures and Web3 poker, giving crypto users one wallet-native destination to create markets, trade outcomes, access perps and participate in on-chain poker without relying on...

Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be coming this year: We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can't build […]

What’s the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has completely refreshed this product space with its gorgeous Aura Ink frame, which uses e-ink to create a display that doesn’t even look digital. Digital frames have always been so popular […]

Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers. Go, which went public Tuesday, plans to use the ¥88.6 billion […]

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Agent Skills are the open standard ( agentskills.io ) for packaging team-specific instructions that any AI coding tool can discover. Migrating from hand-maintained Cursor rules means moving from static markdown you write once to structured, evidence-ranked intelligence your team already enforced in PR review — and (optionally) letting tooling generate the skill automatically. Why migrate? Cursor rules live only in Cursor's tree. Copilot wants .github/copilot-instructions.md ...

Why "Offline-First AI" Is No Longer Optional for the Global South There's a quiet assumption embedded in most AI development: that the people using your tools have reliable internet, stable electricity, and data that's safe to send to foreign servers. That assumption is wrong for most of the world. The infrastructure reality In Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, mobile internet penetration is high — but reliability isn't. A clinic in Kisumu might have strong Safaricom signal ...

The Quest Begins (The "Why") Picture this: I’m sitting at my desk, coffee gone cold, staring at a spreadsheet that looks like something out of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – a maze of dates, prices, and a gut feeling that I’ve cracked the code to beat the market. I had a shiny new idea: buy when the 50‑day moving average crosses above the 200‑day (the classic “golden cross”) and sell when it crosses below. Sounds simple, right? I threw the logic into a quick Python script, ran i...

Originally published on lavkesh.com The AI model landscape has changed. The focus is no longer on building the largest model, but on creating smaller models that are still useful. Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash, Meta's Llama 3.1 8B, and Microsoft's Phi-3 Mini are currently winning in real production deployments. The reasons for their success come down to simple engineering economics. Large models like GPT-4 are capable but expensive to run at scale. For features handling millions of reque...

Originally published on lavkesh.com Microsoft just announced Recall will ship as opt-in rather than opt-out. That is a complete reversal from the original design, and it matters more than the technical detail itself. It marks a line in the sand for what users will accept from AI features running on their own hardware. Recall is the AI memory feature announced in May as part of Copilot+ PCs. The premise is genuinely useful: your PC takes periodic screenshots of everything you do and u...

Claude Design is a tool from Anthropic Labs that turns a conversation into editable visual work: prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, mockups, landing-page concepts. You describe what you want, Claude builds a first version you can see immediately, and you refine it by talking, leaving comments, dragging elements around, or moving sliders Claude builds for you. When it is ready, you send it to Canva, Adobe, Figma, PowerPoint, PDF, or straight into code. It launched on April 17, 2026 and passe...

Target: prometheus/prometheus Issue: prometheus/prometheus#11505 Pull request: prometheus/prometheus#18978 Field Lab record: Prometheus #11505 This field test was about a small but important remote-write boundary in Prometheus: labels are required to be sorted lexicographically, but incoming remote-write labels could pass through a conversion path before that requirement was enforced. That sounds narrow because it is narrow. But this is exactly the kind of case Scara...

Target: prometheus/prometheus Issue: prometheus/prometheus#12244 Pull request: prometheus/prometheus#18979 Field Lab record: Prometheus #12244 This field test was about documentation, but not "just documentation." The public issue reported confusion around Docker Swarm task discovery metadata in Prometheus. The user expected __meta_dockerswarm_container_label_<labelname> to expose labels from the running container or image, such as OCI image labels. The visib...

Here's a changelog entry nobody asked for: ## v2.4.0 - fix stuff - wip - address PR comments - Merge branch 'main' into feature/checkout - update deps - final fix (for real this time) That's not a changelog. That's a git log with a version number stapled on top. And the people who maintain Keep a Changelog have a name for it that I can't improve on: "Don't let your friends dump git logs into changelogs." The interesting part is the timing. That tagline is from 2014. The...

Originally published on lavkesh.com I've found that Kubernetes observability is a unique beast, different from monitoring your application, you're dealing with infrastructure, workloads, and the cluster itself, but fortunately the tooling has come a long way so you don't have to start from scratch Prometheus is the de facto standard for Kubernetes, its pull model fits naturally with Kubernetes service discovery, you add annotations and Prometheus automatically finds your pods, no man...

Every AI coding tool wants a file describing your project. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md. Cursor reads .cursor/rules. Then there's AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, Copilot instructions, Aider's CONVENTIONS.md, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, Kilo Code, Trae, Junie, Warp... Same content, a dozen names and formats. Maintaining them by hand is busywork, and the second your stack changes they're stale. One scan, every file npx @horiastanxd/claude-init It analyzes the repo once - lang...

I build WordPress plugins on my own, and I started using Claude Code for the obvious reason: to write code faster. Six months later, the part it actually saved me wasn't the code at all. It was everything around the code. Every release, I ran the same small gauntlet. Bump the version, update the readme, write the changelog, check the translation files for gaps, draft the announcement. None of it is hard. All of it is fiddly, and every one of those chores pulled me out of the part of my brain ...

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