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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:40

Top Dev Tools & Tutorials of the Week: August 10, 2026

1. TensorFlow Quantum 2.0 What it is: TensorFlow Quantum 2.0 is an open-source library designed for building hybrid quantum-classical machine learning models. Why now: The 2.0 release brings significant enhancements in quantum circuit simulation and tighter integration with Google's Cirq, making it a powerful tool for exploring quantum machine learning. ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:30

AI Startup Infrastructure: $0 Oracle, $12 Groq, $40 BrightData — Real Costs

Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. My Oracle Cloud bill for the last 12 months has been $0.00. This isn't a marketing stunt, it's a hard number. We run 10 production AI agents, processing hundreds of thousands of requests monthly. Our Groq bill for the same period was $12.48. Claude API? $8.17. Resend for email notifications? $4.00. These are the visible cost...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:27

The AI-native junior can't debug and we're pretending that's fine

One of the recent graduates who is a part of our team was able to author a PR with 400 lines of code in just one afternoon. The changes were clean, all tests were passing and the PR was ready to be shipped. Then all of a sudden production had a memory leak. No dialog box, no autocompletion, just a graph going up and a very stressed junior. The thing nobody wants to say out loud A viral...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:24

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: What "Sign in with Google" Actually Does

You click "Sign in with Google" on some app you've never used before. A popup flashes, you pick your account, and three seconds later the app knows your name and email. You never typed a password into that app. It never saw your Google credentials. So how does it know who you are? That's OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect doing their thing. Almost every app you use either consumes or implements this fl...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:22

Ahrefs API Units: What 1,100 Calls Actually Cost

On the last morning of my Ahrefs subscription I burned through 400,000 API units before lunch. That was deliberate, since the budget resets monthly and expires with it, so the choice was spend it or lose it. But it produced something I had not expected to find useful: a log of 1,102 calls across those final two days, with the exact unit cost of each one attached. Ahrefs documents the pricing mode...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:22

Microsoft SC-900: How I Replaced Memorization With Reasoning and Passed in Under a Month

Category Details Certification Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam SC-900 Date of exam July 30, 2026 Score 768/1000 Preparation time <1 month of effective preparation Result Passed When I first started preparing for the Microsoft SC-900 certification, I had one thing going for me: I wasn't new to cybersecurity. I already had the ISC² C...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:22

HTTPS Explained: What the Padlock Actually Protects

That little padlock in your browser's address bar? Most people think it means "this site is safe." It doesn't. A phishing site can have a valid certificate and a green padlock. A page designed to steal your credit card details can run over a perfectly legit HTTPS connection. The padlock means one thing: your connection to whoever owns that domain is encrypted. That's it. Nothing about whether the ...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-09 19:20

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-the-40-something-it-manager/5284499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234724 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:18

The Jharkhand Kitchen — A Heritage Culinary Landing Page

What I Built I built The Jharkhand Kitchen, a premium, highly interactive frontend landing page celebrating the rich culinary heritage of Jharkhand, India. The page highlights two legendary regional comfort foods: Dhuska (a crispy, golden deep-fried rice & lentil savory bread) and Litti Chokha (rustic charcoal-baked whole wheat balls stuffed with spiced sattu, glazed with ghee). Th...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-09 19:16

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

Article URL: https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234675 Points: 13 # Comments: 8

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:13

Sunday roundup: six posts from a week in voice AI

Six posts this week. My keyboard filed a noise complaint somewhere around post four. Here is what I wrote and what stuck with me. Monday: EU AI Act voice watermarking went live The synthetic audio watermarking rules took effect August 2. I wrote about what TTS builders actually need to do about it. Short version: if your API serves generated audio, you need a marking pipeline before an...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:12

You’re Using AI Wrong (And It’s Costing You More Than You Think)

Authors: Muneer Shaik(@smdmuneer) & Mukhtar Wani(@mawani311) You're Not Bad at Using AI. You're Just Using It Like Everyone Else. A year ago, I thought AI was a better search engine. I'd ask a question. Copy the answer. Move on. When the answer was wrong, I'd blame the AI. When the answer was generic, I'd blame the AI. When the generated code didn't work, I'd blame the AI. Eventual...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:12

प्रथम जन्म (First Birth) Alert Fix

🌅 Devlog — प्रथम जन्म (First Birth) Alert Fix Version: v0.0.9-patch | Date: August 10, 2026 Issue: #73 — First gameplay doesn't display "Prathama Janma" 🐛 Bug पहली बार खेलने पर स्वागत-संदेश नहीं आता था। जब कोई नया खिलाड़ी MOKSHA खोलता था और "खेल प्रारंभ करें" दबाता था, तो कोई प्रारंभिक संदेश नहीं दिखता था — UI चुप रहता था। पुनर्जन्म के बाद ♻️ संदेश आता था, पर पहले जन्म का ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:10

Your first enterprise security questionnaire, and you have no SOC 2

A deal is going well. Then their security team joins the thread, and you get some version of this: Please complete the attached vendor security assessment and share your SOC 2 report, subprocessor list, and DPA. The spreadsheet has 140 rows. You are one person, or three. You do not have a SOC 2 report — it runs $10–30k a year and something like 200 hours — and you are not going to have one bef...

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Restate's Single Binary vs Temporal's Cluster: When the Lighter Engine Wins

DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:05

Restate's Single Binary vs Temporal's Cluster: When the Lighter Engine Wins

Here is a bet that will save you a lot of arguing: pick your durable execution engine on what you have to operate, not on what you have to write. The code you write for Restate and the code you write for Temporal end up looking more alike than either vendor wants to admit. They both journal every step and replay it after a crash so your half-finished order doesn't get charged twice. What actually ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 19:02

Resizing Images for Email Campaigns: A Frontend Engineer’s Playbook

Email clients are the most hostile rendering environment most web engineers will touch this year. Outlook on Windows ignores CSS background images, Gmail strips <style> blocks from forwarded messages, Apple Mail ignores height on img if the source has a fixed width attribute, and every mobile client downsamples differently. Resize an image the wrong way and your carefully designed newsletter...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-09 18:59

A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite

Article URL: https://github.com/nsrht/time-travel-sqlite-debugger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234506 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-09 18:51

Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/business/energy-environment/plug-in-balcony-solar.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234393 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-09 18:51

Saying No

Article URL: https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234379 Points: 15 # Comments: 5

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DEV Community • 2026-08-09 18:47

Learning Completely and as if im 5 Python.

I have no clue what i stumbled upon learning about the "Big O" in python class and it worded it better than my a.i. teacher on another site so figured Id sign up here i am !

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