DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:32

I counted the sources in 13 of Google's AI answers. 168 citations, and not one domain appeared twice.

I keep a daily probe that asks the assistants the buying questions in my category and records every source behind every answer. Last week I pointed it at Google's two AI surfaces, the AI Overview box and the fuller AI Mode, and counted. Thirteen answers. 168 citations. Every single answer used a different domain for each of its sources. Not one domain was cited twice, in any answer, the whole wee...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:31

Building a Secure MCP Server for AI-Assisted VPS Operations Without Giving the AI a Shell

Over the last few months, I have been thinking about a simple but uncomfortable question: If AI tools are becoming part of our engineering workflow, how much access should we actually give them? It is tempting to connect an AI assistant directly to a server and say, "Check what is wrong with production." But if the way you do that is by exposing a raw shell, you have effectively created a rem...

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Lobsters • 2026-08-01 19:31

An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:31

Every Generation Thinks the Next One Has It Easy 💃💃 💃

Is It Wrong to Watch Movies, Cartoons, or Sci-Fi? 🤔 Of course not. We enjoy movies even though they're fictional. We appreciate cartoons even though the characters aren't real. We watch science fiction knowing today's imagination often becomes tomorrow's technology. That made me think about another question: Why is AI-assisted development treated so differently? I'm fond of readin...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:30

Indeed 403s you with zero bytes. The companies it aggregates publish free APIs.

I spent an afternoon measuring which job sources actually answer a request, and the result was cleaner than I expected: the aggregators are shut and the sources they aggregate from are wide open. Everything below was measured on 2026-08-01 from an ordinary residential connection with normal browser headers. Not read from documentation. The aggregators indeed.com/jobs 403 ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:29

This is what building a Two-Node Lightning Network From Scratch looked like in one week.

There's a version of learning Bitcoin where you read the whitepaper, nod along, and move on. Then there's the version where you're staring at a terminal at 11pm wondering why two nodes refuse to talk to each other then you actually understand the answer when you figure it out. We did the second version. This article is what came out of it. By the end of one week, I understood what Bitcoin actual...

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Hacker News • 2026-08-01 19:25

Show HN: Unified API for wearable and health data at 1/25th of Terra's price

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NN/g latest articles and announcements • 2026-08-01 19:25

Job Opening: People & Culture Generalist (Remote, US Based)

NN/G is hiring a People & Culture Generalist. This is a fully remote, permanent role running the day-to-day of our People function. Three to five years of People Operations or HR generalist experience. Applications close Friday, August 28.

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:24

Forget The Build Step: A Browser-Native Editor For JSX + CSS

Frontend tooling is incredibly capable. It is also often front-loaded. For many UI ideas, the first thing you do is not write code. You install, configure, and wait. The creative loop starts late. @knighted/develop is built for a different default: fast prototyping from anywhere you can open a browser. It is a browser-native editor/workbench for @knighted/jsx and @knighted/css, delivered throu...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:22

Commitea now has challenges verified against your real GitHub

A while back I shared Commitea, my project to teach Git and GitHub in Spanish, with a repo of docs and an interactive visualizer. Since then I kept adding things — search, feedback widget, dark mode, a changelog page. But there was still a gap between "reading how something works" and "actually knowing how to do it." So I built the piece that closes that gap: challenges verified against your real...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:22

Applying GCP, AI & Modern Web to Build a Summarized News Experience

While preparing for the Google Cloud Architect certification, I wanted to deepen my understanding by building something practical using the GCP services I was learning. That led me to start a news summarization application, this is something I've been developing and refining in my personal time to apply cloud and AI/ML concepts in action. My goal was clear, while working on app to create a fast, ...

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Hacker News • 2026-08-01 19:18

Show HN AI Data Center Alert

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:18

The Ice Cream Stands in the Middle of the Beach: why rational AI startups fail together

This is not a startup guide. It is closer to something I can finally put into words after a few years of building, watching, and getting things wrong myself. AI has made it much cheaper to build. The financing and organizational logic around startups has not caught up. The graveyard of wrappers In the first wave of the AI boom, a product could wrap a large model, add some prompt engin...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-01 19:18

Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16021741/flee-Americans-nine-countries-US-embassies-Iran-war.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137503 Points: 11 # Comments: 10

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Newest questions tagged css - Stack Overflow • 2026-08-01 19:17

Anchoring a button when the button is inside a scroll content

I am in a situation where I have a table and button that is inside a scrollable container. When I scroll right, the button moves to the left. I want the button to stay in the same place (bottom right of the container). Is it possible to make the button stay in the same place without moving it out the scrollable content container? .content { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-ite...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:16

var, let, const — and why JavaScript changed its mind

When I started learning JavaScript, I kept seeing the same advice: use let and const, don't use var. Usually it came as a rule, not a reason. And a rule you don't understand is a rule you forget — so I went looking for the why. It turns out var isn't just old-fashioned. It's broken in three specific ways, and let and const exist to fix exactly those three things. Here they are. Proble...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:13

What I'm Building: A Tool to Help Recruiters Rate Interviews More Consistently

I'm starting a full-stack project aimed at a problem I kept thinking about: when a recruiter interviews hundreds of students in a day, how fair can the ratings really stay? The problem Think about placement season. One recruiter might interview 50-100+ students back to back. By interview #60, it's genuinely hard to judge everyone the same way. A tired interviewer might mark a correct a...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-01 19:10

Fermi Paradox

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137419 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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DEV Community • 2026-08-01 19:09

I tried to prove AI writes insecure WordPress code. 32 runs later, I could not.

When you ask an AI for WordPress code, is what it hands back safe to ship? I had a hunch. I expected to catch it red-handed. I did not. My first plan was the obvious one. I wanted a concrete example of the kind of hole an earlier post was about, the sort an assistant might actually write, so I asked one for a plugin with a hole in it, and it obliged. For a moment I had my illustration. Then a be...

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Hacker News • 2026-08-01 19:09

Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust

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