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AI & ML 09-05 2 DEV Community

I Thought the Optimizer Was the Product. I Was Wrong. The Gate Was.

Previously: 9 Bugs That All Looked Like a Working System · I Built an AI That Rewrites Its Own Prompts · The Edit That Fixed 4 Tasks and Broke 1 · I Let an LLM Rewrite Its Own Prompt. The Real Win Was the Gate That Rejected It. · I Tried 4 Models to Save My Self-Improving Agent. All 4 Failed. Agen

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Hardening a Linux Server with UFW

Hardening a Linux Server with UFW Introduction # 1.1 "Teaser" overview In this project, I tested how a Linux host-based firewall changes the way a server appears during network reconnaissance. Using Nmap, I scanned a TripleTen play-server before and after enabling UFW. Before the firewall was

DevOps 09-05 2 DEV Community

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Do you run bitwarden-lite on Docker? You can now go rootless+readonly for extra security

After nearly 18 months, my PR to add rootless and readonly filesystem support to bitwarden-lite has been merged and released with v2026.8.1 🚀🚀🚀. Shoutout to MtnBurrit0 from the BW team for getting it across the finish line. This means you can now run as an arbitrary user with literally no privileges

DevOps 09-05 2 Reddit r/selfhosted

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Statichost.eu – 100% European static site hosting

Article URL: https://www.statichost.eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896 Points: 20 # Comments: 2

General 09-05 2 Reddit r/webdev

Is it possible to simulate a network of multiple API, Database and webservers on a single computer?

Hello, I have been thinking about a project I‘d like to try out, where I have like a Database, an api server and a web server. It‘s not too large, and mostly to learn about how they all interact. The issue is, I would prefer not having to pay for multiple servers to host everything. Is there a way t

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How to Create a Tor Exit Node

Article URL: https://madpsy.uk/how-to-create-a-tor-exit-node/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569702 Points: 10 # Comments: 6

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An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

Article URL: https://quad9.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569663 Points: 15 # Comments: 3

Frontend 09-05 2 Dev.to (EN Zone)

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Measuring the Multi-Agent Fork Tax

Every multi-agent architecture makes a bet: that the coordination overhead is cheaper than the context bloat of a monolithic session. Nobody has published the actual cost. Mohammad Fauzel Sadeghizad ran 45 controlled experiments across 20 programming tasks to measure the fork tax: the performance p

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HydraFusion: How GitHub Routes Coding Tasks Across Multiple Models to Match Frontier Performance at Lower Cost

GitHub shipped HydraFusion as a research preview in Copilot, exposing the plumbing behind multi-model orchestration for coding workflows. The system routes subtasks across different LLMs based on complexity, matching Opus 5 baseline performance while reducing estimated workflow cost. This is product

AI & ML 09-05 2 Reddit r/MachineLearning

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Gpt 5,6,7: Does it even matter? The (ghost) productivity question. [D]

an observation : GPT-5-class models are genuinely capable(They are) of doing a substantial fraction of knowledge work, why haven’t we seen a noticeable productivity shock in the real economy yet? Is AI actually less economically useful than the benchmarks suggest—or are organizations simply too slow

I Threw the Box Away. The Damage Was Already Done.

ShrekOS field notes · August 2026 I have no idea what I'm f*cking doing. Something I learned today: Throwing away a disposable sandbox is a cleanup operation, not a security control. I was building a disposable sandbox for an AI agent to work in. A container I could simply delete when the task fi

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SEO in 2027 Will Depend on AI Answers, Community Signals and Traditional Search

SEO in 2027 will not be adequately measured by a Google ranking report alone. Search Engine Land's analysis of the changing discipline argues that brands need to manage visibility across traditional search results, AI-generated answers and third-party communities. That changes the job from pursuing

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Google AI Overviews Can Expand in Search: What the SERP Change Means for SEO

Google has confirmed a new AI Overviews behavior that can materially change the shape of a search results page. For some queries, the previously collapsed overview can automatically open into a longer response, placing traditional blue-link results further down the screen. For website owners, the ch

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The End of Code as the Final Product (The Agentic Shift)

We keep talking about AI as a "coding assistant." I think that framing is already becoming outdated. A recent paper, Agentic Software: How AI Agents Are Restructuring the Software Paradigm by Zhenfeng Cao, makes a much bigger argument: AI agents may fundamentally change what we mean by software. F

General 09-05 2 Dev.to (EN Zone)

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Decode and encode JSON in Haskell like an Elm developer

If you're an Elm developer writing Haskell and you like elm/json, you might like dwayne/hs-json-codec. hs-json-codec provides JSON decoders and encoders for Haskell in the style of elm/json. It's built on dwayne/hs-json-parser, a general-purpose JSON parser and printer that I also wrote. I built b

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Can AI design circuit boards yet?

Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366 Points: 57 # Comments: 39

Frontend 09-05 2 Dev.to (EN Zone)

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Vibe coding got me 80% there. Spec-Driven Development got me the other 20%.

I like vibe coding. I'm not here to shame anyone out of it. Some of the best things I've shipped started as a half-formed idea typed into a chat box at 11pm. But if you've done this for more than a weekend, you know the shape of the problem. The first prompt is magic. The fifth one is negotiation.