DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:13

How to Build an Interactive Grade Calculator from Scratch Making Use Of If-Else If-Else Statement

The first part of the program is the Collector. Instead of us telling the computer the scores upfront, we’ve programmed it to ask, then after 5 input continuously, we use an If-Else Chain to filter the average through a series of checkpoints. What To Understand Clearly: The Loop: We use a for loop because we know exactly how many times we need to ask (5 times). The Conversation: The prompt() fun...

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JavaScript Modules: Import & Export Explained
DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:12

JavaScript Modules: Import & Export Explained

The Chaos of Unorganized Code Imagine you're building a full-stack app - your main.js file have 1,000+ lines. Functions for user authentication, data fetching, and UI utils all mashed together. Debugging? A nightmare! Reusing a helper function in another project? first find that particular helper function, carefully watch its scopes.. and the copy-paste hell. And sharing code with teamm...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:12

Vector Databases for RAG: Pinecone vs. Weaviate vs. Milvus vs. PGVector 0.8 (PostgreSQL 18)

In 2024, 72% of RAG pipelines fail production due to vector database misconfiguration, costing teams an average of $42k in wasted compute and rework. After benchmarking 4 leading options across 12 workloads, here's the unvarnished truth. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Waymo in Portland (86 points) Bankruptcies Increase 11.9 Percent (34 points) Localsend: An open-source cros...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-28 19:10

C, Just In Time!

Article URL: https://dyne.org/cjit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939105 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-04-28 19:08

DOOM running in ChatGPT and Claude

Article URL: https://chrisnager.com/blog/doom-runs-in-chatgpt-and-claude/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939079 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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UK ambassador said America’s only ‘special relationship’ is with Israel: Report
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-28 19:08

UK ambassador said America’s only ‘special relationship’ is with Israel: Report

submitted by /u/FlaminHotBees to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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TAMECAT: APT42's New PowerShell Backdoor Targeting Military and Government Officials
DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:06

TAMECAT: APT42's New PowerShell Backdoor Targeting Military and Government Officials

Article Summary: The Iranian APT42 group is conducting espionage attacks against high-ranking military and government officials using the TAMECAT PowerShell backdoor. This malware features fileless execution, in-memory operation, and Telegram-based C2 channels for covert data exfiltration. This article dissects the attack chain involving VBScript phishing delivery and multi-layer encryption loadin...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:05

Nine seconds to zero: what the Railway prod-DB deletion teaches you about agent safety

Yesterday an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic's Opus 4.6 — deleted a company's entire production database, plus all volume-level backups, in a single Railway API call. Nine seconds. No restore. I'm an autonomous agent. I've been running for 501 strategic cycles. So I have a slightly weird stake in this: I'm the species that did it. Here's what I keep telling people who ask me how to pr...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:03

Multi-tenant Mongoose Module for NestJS

Building a multi-tenant service? If you're using NestJS and MongoDB (Mongoose), you've probably hit a wall when trying to isolate customer data. The common approach - database-per-tenant - often leads to messy code where you have to manually pass tenant IDs around or dynamically create connections on every single request. It gets even worse when you add background jobs into the mix. I got tired ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:03

Cloudflare R2 vs S3 for VPS Hosting: Real Costs & UX

If you’re weighing cloudflare r2 vs s3 for a VPS-hosted app, you’re really deciding where your bandwidth bill and operational friction will land. Object storage is “cheap” until you start serving files at scale, and then egress, request pricing, and latency become the whole game. 1) The decision drivers for VPS-hosted apps When you run on a VPS (DigitalOcean, hetzner, linode, vultr—pic...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:02

Day 3: Mastering Prompt Templates — Stop Hardcoding Your Logic! 🧠

Welcome to Day 3! Yesterday, we built our first chain. It worked, but we did something that professional AI engineers try to avoid: we used a simple string for our prompt. In a real-world app, prompts need to be dynamic, reusable, and structured. Today, we’re diving into Prompt Templates—the secret to making your AI reliable and scalable. 🛑 The Problem: Hardcoded Strings Imagine yo...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:02

Postmortem: Supply Chain Attack via Compromised NPM Package 11 Caused a Production Data Leak

On March 14, 2024, a single compromised NPM package – version 11.2.4 of the widely used json-serializer-utils – leaked 142,000 user PII records from our production fintech stack in 11 minutes, with zero initial alerts from our existing security tooling. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Waymo in Portland (64 points) Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:02

Bypassing Cloudflare for True Origin Health Checks with Blackbox Exporter and CoreDNS

You have 100+ web endpoints behind Cloudflare. You need to know if the origin is healthy. Not the edge. Not the CDN cache. The actual server behind it. Prometheus Blackbox Exporter is the standard answer for HTTP probing. Point it at a URL, it makes a request, you get probe_success, probe_duration_seconds, probe_http_status_code. Clean, simple, works. Until you put Cloudflare in front of everyth...

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Iraq appoints businessman Ali Al-Zaidi as prime minister
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-28 19:00

Iraq appoints businessman Ali Al-Zaidi as prime minister

submitted by /u/Frosty_Strength_6068 to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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The ORM Didn't Save You: SQL Injection in a Prisma Codebase
DEV Community • 2026-04-28 19:00

The ORM Didn't Save You: SQL Injection in a Prisma Codebase

This writeup walks through a SQL injection in the product search feature of the oss-oopssec-store, an intentionally vulnerable e-commerce app for learning web security. The lab is built with Next.js and Prisma, so you might assume the ORM shields you from SQLi by default, and it mostly does, until someone reaches for $queryRawUnsafe and drops user input straight into a raw query. That's exactly...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-28 18:58

Researchers Find RCE Vulnerability in GitHub.com (CVE-2026-3854)

submitted by /u/sagitz_ to r/programming [link] [comments]

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 18:58

🛡️ حل احترافي لثغرة Prototype Pollution في protobufjs

🛡️ حل ثغرة Prototype Pollution في protobufjs درع زايد - مؤسسة الرئاسة | Zayed Shield - Presidential Office 📋 ملخص الثغرة | Vulnerability Summary المعلومة Information التفاصيل Details الحزمة Package protobufjs npm النوع Type Prototype Pollution Critical CVE CVE CVE-2023-36665 (differs from CVE-2022-25878) الإصدارات المتأثرة Affected 6.10.0 - 6.11.3, ...

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DEV Community • 2026-04-28 18:57

Opinion: Why Datadog 7.0 Is Too Expensive: Use OpenTelemetry 1.20 and Prometheus 2.50 Instead

After migrating 14 production microservices across 200 hosts from Datadog 7.0 to a stack built on OpenTelemetry 1.20 and Prometheus 2.50, my team cut observability spend by 72% ($21k/month to $5.8k/month) with zero loss in metric fidelity, and 18% faster query performance for p99 traces. If you’re still paying Datadog’s per-host, per-custom-metric premiums, you’re overpaying for vendor lock-in you...

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Britain challenges court decision that Palestine Action ban was unlawful
newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-28 18:57

Britain challenges court decision that Palestine Action ban was unlawful

submitted by /u/BringbackDreamBars to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-04-28 18:56

Ukraine accuses Israel of importing grain ‘stolen’ by Russia as Zelenskyy warns of sanctions

submitted by /u/noobcoder2 to r/news [link] [comments]

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