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Researchers built and verified numbat, a machine-learning stack written entirely in Zig with no third-party runtime dependencies, exposing over 1,400 C ABI entry points and bindings for six languages, according to an arX…
A Hacker News user running a SaaS business asked the community how developers operate AI agents 24/7, questioning what the agents actually do, how close the models are to the frontier, and what the setup costs. The poste…
A web developer argues that AI-assisted programming requires a new set of coding primitives, proposing components, features, and prompts as the building blocks developers should think in as the stack moves higher. The de…
A maintainer of the Nobulex project found that its pre-push Git hook tests were escaping their temporary repositories and mutating the calling repository's metadata, after Git exported GIT_DIR into the hook environment a…
A developer who has shipped 62 public repositories since July 2025 describes how AI coding agents Kiro and Claude helped over-engineer a throwaway deployment test for the civic tool Porch Light, turning a two-hour task i…
A developer affiliated with We0.ai argues that AI-generated websites require a post-launch maintenance loop covering SEO audits, analytics, content updates, and task tracking, rather than treating the site as a one-time …
Adobe has patented a self-correcting AI coding system that trains a large language model by pairing correct and incorrect code responses and fine-tuning on the resulting preference dataset, according to a patent filing t…
Microsoft has patented an AI coding system that splits a single prompt into two coordinated sub-instructions — one to generate code and one to validate the user's original input — and excludes any fragment flagged as unv…
Google has patented a two-model AI system that generates multiple candidate prompts for code migration, scores each rewritten codebase by predicted validation error count, and delivers the version with the fewest predict…
A developer argues that modern software development has become too easy to start, leading teams to build unnecessary complexity, and that AI coding assistants have worsened the problem by removing the friction that once …
Datasette released versions 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 to patch security flaws found in an audit run with Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6, and GPT-6 Astra, according to the project's release notes. The audit was prompted by issues repo…
A developer has released Frost, a deep learning framework written in roughly 1,400 lines of code, built on top of the Neve programming language. The framework includes parallel dataloaders and GPU kernels, and ships with…
BasedAgents launched Keyring, a tool that gives AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor their own scoped keys to each account, requiring user approval via a tap and allowing revocation at any time. The tool is i…
A developer known as bananacool467 has fixed a serious authentication vulnerability in early beta versions of their npm package @bananacool467/ui-tools, which shipped a terminal/PTY feature without adequate access contro…
A developer built ai-vuln-scan, an open-source static analysis tool tuned to catch security flaws that appear disproportionately in AI-generated code, and published a versioned seven-pattern taxonomy called the AI Vulner…
Datasette-publish-fly 1.4 was released on 11th September 2026, the latest version of the Datasette plugin for publishing datasets to Fly.io. The release announcement appeared alongside recent posts on the Navier–Stokes M…
A developer's practical map of the 2026 AI development stack argues the tooling landscape has settled into distinct layers — coding assistants, application frameworks, model gateways, evaluation and observability, and re…
A community project called Algo-Trading-Skills has released 501 structured algorithmic trading skills across 16 engineering domains, each backed by working reference implementations and 20,291 unit tests, under the Apach…
A developer who switched from Anthropic's Claude Code to OpenAI's Codex (Terra/Sol/Astra) reported that Codex's Astra model generated a one-line git commit message — "Fix YouTube resolver playback and isolate proxy traff…
A developer built mdsweep, a dependency-free Node.js tool that scans repositories for stale markdown files left behind by coding agents and sorts them into active, stale, and orphan buckets. Testing across 36 repos with …