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public-apis/public-apis

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A collective list of free APIs. Github trending; api, apis, dataset, development; mit license.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

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The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

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all-MiniLM-L6-v2 This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity.

PawBot – An AI Desktop Puppy That Eats Your Files 🐾

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This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition What I Built Remember Neko…

BAAI/bge-m3

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BAAI/bge-m3 is a machine-learning model signal worth checking for task fit, license, model card quality, and production constraints before adoption. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity.

google-bert/bert-base-uncased

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Pretrained model on English language using a masked language modeling (MLM) objective. Signal: Hugging Face – Fill Mask.

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

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High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications.

You Can't Reproduce What the Vendor Changes Under You

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Server-side prompt injection quietly broke reproducibility for AI agents. Here's the mechanism, why it defeats root-cause analysis, and what to do. Context: Dev.to – DevOps.

How My AI Agents' Mistakes Become Permanent Rules (And Why I Want Them to Fail)

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I run SaaS products for German golf clubs. Solo founder. 85 containers, 24 databases, one server. No… Context: Dev.to – DevOps.

citrolabs/ego-lite

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The fastest browser for AI agents to run browser automation, built for sharing your logged-in browser state with your AI agents, like Codex or Claude Code, without disturbing you. Zero cost, zero config. Github trending; agent-skills, ai-agent, automation, browser; mit license.

MakazhanAlpamys/Soup

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Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU. Github trending; cli, consumer-gpu, dpo, fine-tuning; apache-2.0 license.

GLM-5.3

Official Z.ai platform to experience our new, MIT-licensed GLM models (Base, Reasoning, Rumination). Simple UI focuses on model interaction. Free. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Zetik

Presidents and CEOs get strategy teams. You get… doomscrolling? Meet Zetik: an AI agent team running a full intelligence cycle — collect, filter, analyze, brief — across podcasts, papers, code, tweets & news, 24/7. It tracks whatever matters to you, in near real time. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

nenspace

nenspace. an extended mind, not a second brain: your own, made larger. the lo-fi of LLMs fused with the one space that catches your thoughts and cultivates them: working memory, tasks, notes, habits, logbook. AI-fused, but not forced. your head holds about four things. nenspace holds the rest. free to start · web + ios. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Clamshell

Closing my MacBook used to kill whatever I had left running: a build, a download, sometimes an agent halfway through a task. I made Clamshell to fix that. The lid shuts, the screen goes dark, and the work carries on. No monitor, sudo, or admin setup. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

OpenAI talent exodus raises 'huge red flag' ahead of IPO

OpenAI talent exodus raises 'huge red flag' ahead of IPO is an AI signal; evaluate model capability, data requirements, cost, and operational limits.

Analyst gets probation after telling ChatGPT about plans to rape and kill his ex

Analyst gets probation after telling ChatGPT about plans to rape and kill his ex is an AI signal; evaluate model capability, data requirements, cost, and operational limits.

The Trump administration is pressuring Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips as AI data centers drain global supply.

Via WSJ Apple is reportedly testing chips from CXMT and YMTC for devices sold in China. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he told Apple “plainly” that Washington opposes the move. Apple can legally buy standard, off-the-shelf parts from both companies. Sharing product information for customize….

Resource – AI Text Watermarking: How it Works and How to Evade It

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that it was adding invisible text watermarking to Claude outputs. This announcement got a lot of attention. At the same time the European Commission announced that other firms, including Black Forest Labs and Open AI have also committed to taking steps to mar….

Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup

Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup is an AI signal; evaluate model capability, data requirements, cost, and operational limits.

Zuckerberg is betting Meta's whole ad business on AI and his own ai ugc tools are turning dresses into pants

Zuckerberg's out here telling everyone ai is the future of meta's ad revenue, reuters covered his latest ai pitch and called it more ad than substance. Fine tho, he is the ceo thats his job. Altho his own ai ad tools are currently generating gibberish copy and mangled products and business insider….

I built a small game discovery toy, not a chatbot wrapper

I'm Eli. GameCombiner embeds 146,288 games as 1024-dimensional vectors built from their genres, user tags and store descriptions, not their titles, and lets you combine two games by taking the mathematical midpoint of their vectors and returning the closest real game to that point. No LLM is choosi….

Why I remain a skeptic

Why I remain a skeptic Posts Tags RSS Feed Codeberg GitHub Mastodon YouTube E-Mail Why I remain a skeptic 14 Aug 2026 ai I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about.

How I Built a Real-Time Multilingual AI Voice Tutor for Bharat (And Solved the 55ms Latency Problem)

How I Built a Real-Time Multilingual AI Voice Tutor for Bharat (And Solved the 55ms Latency… Context: Dev.to – Voiceai.

LM Studio on Windows, WSL2 for Development: The Setup Guide I Wish I Had

I went to a Build with Gemma event expecting to spend the day experimenting with local models…. Context: Dev.to – Gemma.

CVE-2026-20349: Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Vulnerability

CVE-2026-20349: Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Vulnerability is a security signal; verify the primary advisory, affected versions, and mitigation guidance.

Verification: cisa kev confirmed.

CVE-2026-68820: Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CVE-2026-68820: Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Use-After-Free Vulnerability is a security signal; verify the primary advisory, affected versions, and mitigation guidance.

Verification: cisa kev confirmed.

CVE-2026-72898: Metabase SQL Injection Vulnerability

CVE-2026-72898: Metabase SQL Injection Vulnerability is a security signal; verify the primary advisory, affected versions, and mitigation guidance.

Verification: cisa kev confirmed.

Five tabs open, one refresh token — the race nobody noticed

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A user reports that they keep getting logged out. Not immediately — after a while, randomly, always… Context: Dev.to – Javascript.

rustdesk/rustdesk

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An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. Github trending; android, anydesk, dart, flatpak; agpl-3.0 license.

I Almost Lost Years to This. So I Built an Open-Source Blocker Instead.

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I've loved computers for as long as I can remember. Games, building things, staying up way too late… Context: Dev.to – Opensource.

cordiverse/cordis

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Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability. Github trending; effect, framework, nodejs, plugin; mit license.

cursor/plugins

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Cursor plugin specification and official plugins. Github trending.

Build an MCP Server in Go (Part 1): Designing a diagnostic-grade Kubernetes client

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This post designs the Kubernetes client. The next post wraps it as an MCP server and wires it to an… Context: Dev.to – Kubernetes.

Attyn

Attyn brings intelligence to the cursor inside the apps you already use. Rewrite selected text with Inline Assist, speak finished words with Realtime Dictation, ask about what is on screen with Screen Assist, and turn questions into visual explanations with Blackboard. Use Attyn Credits, bring a provider key, or run a… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Chronock

Chronock combines scheduling and cross-calendar sync in one workspace. It checks availability across connected Google and Outlook calendars, turns open time into a booking page, and syncs events between work, personal, and project calendars to prevent double bookings. Guests see only bookable times, while you can revi… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Big Mike

Big Mike reads MLB, NFL/CFB, and NBA/WNBA all day and texts you the play in iMessage: what to bet, at what number, and which book has it. July Record: 115-68, +21.4 units. Every pick graded in public, no deleted losers. Star ruled out? Trade drops? He texts you what it does to the line. Add him to the group chat and t… Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Inferock Bench

Inferock-bench is a local proxy that sits between your app and OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenRouter shaped calls. It captures per-call token usage, failures, and retries, then generates an independent receipt showing what you were billed and how much you're actually overpaying for. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Talvo

The European money tracker & budgeting app. Connect 2,500+ banks via PSD2, auto-categorise every transaction, track budgets & net worth. EU-hosted, GDPR native. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

FileRouter

A default handler for multiple file types that opens the right editor — Velja/Choosy for files. Full control of any file type and what editor(s) open it, with radial picker and custom rules. Worth checking for pricing vs value, integrations, data ownership, and workflow fit.

Gravy Theory: three chickens, one base

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This is a submission for Frontend Challenge – Comfort Food Edition Perfect Landing. What I… Context: Dev.to – Devchallenge.

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

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High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications.

Asus Bike Booster

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ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders.

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

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LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet staple.

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

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Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI – American College of Cardiology — About ACC Press Releases Abdominal-Fat-Predicts-Heart-Disease-Risk-Better-Than-BMI About ACC Leadership & Governance The ACC Foundation Advocacy Health Equity Innovation Program Jobs at…

A spectre is haunting Unicode

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High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications.

Looker's Native MCP Server with Claude Code

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Looker hosts its own MCP server now. This walks through connecting Claude Code to it, pairing it with…

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

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Super El Niño keeps strengthening as new forecasts push toward record levels, shaping Winter 2026/2027 patterns across the U.S. and Canada.

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

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Solitude, creativity, Bergman, Grothendieck, and the pursuit of great ideas.

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

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Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.

Designing a Landing Page That Feels Like Opening a Food Journal

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This is a submission for Frontend Challenge – Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing. What I… Context: Dev.to – Devchallenge.

Build an MCP Server in Go (Part 2): Building the MCP tool layer

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Part 1 designs the KubeClient interface this post builds on. If you haven't read it, the short… Context: Dev.to – Go.

Zig Day Seattle, WA #3

Zig Day Seattle, WA #3 is a practitioner-focused engineering link from Lobste.rs; review it for implementation detail, operational lessons, and discussion quality.

How Is Compression Prediction?

When does lossless compression reduce to prediction, and what must already be fixed before that equivalence applies?

Power Relations

Power Relations you may not have all you want, all you need all that you have had was given by some hand it could change, it could stay the same who will say?

Recap: Software Should Work 2026

I attended my first software conference: Software Should Work in Columbia, Missouri. It was awesome!

What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI

While writing the section of my 2026 Python Packaging Council (PPC) nomination on secure supply chain, I realized that one thing related to having a secure supply chain that we lack is a defined way to perform reproducible builds. The reason I like the idea of making reproducible builds work.

Aiki reaches recursive self-interpretation

Aiki: Alpha Milestone 26 Update – decuser's blog I have been busy with Aiki lately, and the last couple of days have been especially active.

Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends

Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends 2026-08-15 This is an update on the development of Flirt.

A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability

A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability is a practitioner-focused engineering link from Lobste.rs; review it for implementation detail, operational lessons, and discussion quality. Context: Lobste.rs – Programming.

Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5

Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5 Research Programming Artificial Intelligence Interviews Other Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5 Article by Vladislav Zavialov June 1st, 2026 20 min read Twitter Facebook Linkedin Telegram Mail WhatsApp Copy Link 20 Th…

nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode

“The fastest evaluation is the one that never happens.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of Evaluation.

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever

The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, wh….

One-Shot UI Side Effects in BlocSignal: Snackbars, Dialogs, and Navigation Without State Pollution

Why persistent domain state is the wrong place for transient dialogs and snackbars, how classic BLoC solved it with bloc_presentation, and how to handle one-shot side effects in BlocSignal with zero dependencies. Context: Dev.to – Web Dev.